@article{957,
  keywords = {Settlers  German, Blacksmiths, Saw mill industry, Genealogy, Ratz  Jacob, Ratz  Valentin, Ratz  Anna Gertrude (m. Valentin), Wilmot Centre Cemetery, Hessen  Germany, Alsfeld  Hessen  Germany, Waterloo, Woolwich Township, St Jacobs, Wilmot Centre},
  author = {Herbert Ratz},
  title = {From forge to farm},
  abstract = {A history of the emigration of Valentin and Anna Gertrude Ratz from Germany in 1828, based largely on the memories and family traditions contained in a 1918 letter by Jacob Ratz, who was an infant when his family arrived in Waterloo. Valentine worked as a blacksmith until 1840, when he moved to a farm in Woolwich Township and developed a sawmill one mile west of St Jacobs.},
  year = {1991},
  journal = {Waterloo Historical Society},
  volume = {79},
  number = {Journal Article},
  pages = {154-161. ill., },
  note = {ID -: e-2083},
  language = {English},
}