Two days ago I talked to my cousin, Dayrl Bulkley who is going to Berlin today to visit her daughter, Kimberly, who is residing there. Six days ago, I found the splendid monument where our Stuttmeister kinfolk are buried at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Germany’s capital. What are the odds that I would find this monument titled ‘Family Stuttmeister’ in time for this visit.

Also, two weeks ago I found the Oltman genealogy ‘The Descendants of Benjamin Adams’ by Murray Oltman. Benjamin is English, and John D. Oltman married his daughter, Rebecca. From this union comes Mathilde Oltman who married Doctor Freidrich Wilhelm Stuttmeister, from whom members of the Broderick and Presco family get their first name. My father was Victor William Presco, and my brother, Mark Broderick Presco. Victor Stuttmiester was Freidrich’s son.

In the photo of the picnic below taken in the Oakland Hills, William Broderick is the…