My name is Schani Biermann and I hope you will take the time to explore this site which has been designed for all family members and visitors to enjoy. In addition to the Biermann Family History there is information on Ostfriesen, German and Danish Genealogy and History as well as links to informational sites covering all aspects of Genealogy. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please sign my Guestbook before you leave.

Our Biermanns have their origins in that area of Germany known as Ostfriesland or East Frisia. My Research over the last 2 years has revealed that our ancestors lived in this area from 1750-1860. The Biermanns were "arbeiter" (labourers) and worked the farmlands surrounding the parish towns of Hage and Nesse. In the 1860's some of the family moved to Hohenkirchen in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, where my great-grandfather, Johann Heinrich Bernhard Biermann was born on May 11, 1862. JHB Biermann eventually moved to Nord Schleswig where he met his future Danish wife, Marie Cathrine Johansen. My great-grandparents had ten children, my grandfather, Heinrich Biermann, being the eighth child and fourth son. He was born in Kobenhoved, northwest of Woyens, on October 4, 1898 at a time when that part of Schleswig was under German rule. My father Helmer Biermann was born in Skærbæk, Denmark on February 15, 1923. My father was only 4 years old when he and his parents emigrated to Canada, arriving at the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1927