Kraushaar and Korte Genealogy: Our History from the Sauerland and Banat

This is the story and the genealogy of an American family. From the year 1330 in the Sauerland region of Germany, to the Banat region of Hungary, which is now part of Romania, then on through Ellis Island, to Cincinnati, then Tucson and then Vancouver, Washington. This book contains the complete male line of the families in the title, short stories, photos, and diary excerpts.

Peter Michael Kraushaar, was born in 1960 in Cincinnati, Ohio and currently resides in Vancouver, Washington. Known as Mike to close family and friends, he grew up in Tucson, Arizona and graduated from Sabino High School in 1978 then served in the US Army Military Police for 3 years stationed in Northern Franconia (North Bavaria), Germany and Washington DC. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1985. Peter was employed as police officer. He served as a deputy sheriff for Multnomah County Oregon, as a US Government Police Officer, also as a radio announcer and worked at radio stations KLPX, KWFM and KSTM in Arizona in the 1980’s, KUIK in Portland in the 1990’s, and Internet station Radio Free Phoenix in this new century. Peter started the first radio station at Sunset Beach, Oregon KBFD-FM on May 11th 2004. After well over 6 years of genealogy and history research, Peter was able to trace our family history back to the year 1330 in Deutmecke and published the history on his website and preserved it on paper for all current and future generations. In 2014 he traveled to the Sauerland to complete his research.