{"product_id":"from-austria-to-america-franz-lugers-immigrant-experience-9798869244444","title":"From Austria to America: Franz Luger's Immigrant Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 38 years ago, back in the late summer of 1985, when I was about 13 years old, I was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evisiting my Grandpa Raymond Luger, my Dad's father. By then, the interest in my family \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eroots was in full swing for Myself. I had endless questions and my family only had so many \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanswers for me. The rest, I got to find out on my own, through time. Anyway, at that time, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI asked Grandpa Ray about his parents and family origins and he told me of what he knew-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat his father was John Luger and Bertha Klar, and John's father was Franz Luger, and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat they came from Austria. I was thankful for what he told me, but as could be expected, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was, of course, wanting to know more-this started the quest, for Myself, to learn more \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout him as well as the rest of my family history. Over time, I would amass an extremely \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elarge family tree, going generations and generations, centuries, and centuries, before \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyself back into time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would find out when my ancestors, Franz and his family being some of them, came to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica, which areas in Europe and the world that they came from, what they did for \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoccupations, and their family origins, as well. As they are my ancestors and relatives, I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eardently believe that their stories, back then, are also our stories today, and we wish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto be able to tell them today, so that they won't be forgotten. It is something to take\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enote of, that we have gone from asking my Grandpa Ray questions about Franz Luger, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis grandfather, way back when, to telling others about Franz and his family, 38 years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elater. We hope that, through this book, we will be to speak for him and his family, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas well as their life experiences in Austria and America, during the 19th and early 20th \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Luger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513054925074,"sku":"9798869244444","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_187a20ab-eab4-4380-a6d3-19060615538f.jpg?v=1730959442","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-austria-to-america-franz-lugers-immigrant-experience-9798869244444","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}