{"id":2826,"date":"2016-06-01T03:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2016-06-01T03:17:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T03:17:21","slug":"a-handball-player-from-eisenach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"A Handball Player from Eisenach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably one of my more unusual purchases on <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5575075447&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337446131&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=genealogy+postcards&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">Ebay<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m not in the habit of purchasing sports cards, especially ones for handball players from\u00a0Germany.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/trautvetter-card-ebay.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2827\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/trautvetter-card-ebay.jpg\" alt=\"trautvetter-card-ebay\" width=\"458\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/trautvetter-card-ebay.jpg 458w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/trautvetter-card-ebay-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut this one was slightly different. And the price was right: it went for less than $3.<\/p>\n<p>Trautvetter is a native of Eisenach, Germany. That&#8217;s roughly thirty kilometers from where my Trautvetter family originated. I&#8217;m not certain if they &#8220;all&#8221; are related or not, but many other Trautvetter families who came to the United States appear to have origins in this general area.<\/p>\n<p>Given the unusual nature of the name, I often search\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5575075447&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337446131&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=genealogy+postcards&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">Ebay<\/a>\u00a0for items containing the term &#8220;Trautvetter.&#8221; Usually all I find are merchandise coins from a relative in Colby, Kansas, or academic books in which I have no interest.<\/p>\n<p>I keep hoping to find a postcard written by a relative or a picture of a long-lost cousin. So far no luck.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably one of my more unusual purchases on Ebay.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m not in the habit of purchasing sports cards, especially ones for handball players from\u00a0Germany.\u00a0 But this one was slightly different. And the price was right: it went for less than $3. Trautvetter is a native of Eisenach, Germany. That&#8217;s roughly thirty kilometers from where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ebay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}