On their journey the young couple bought a doll wearing Bavarian traditional dress - lederhosen and a loden jacket – a popular Bavarian souvenir even today. When they visited the Partnachklamm gorge near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, they bought a glass paperweight with a picture of the gorge on it and took it back to Rochester with them.

In November 1932, five and a half years after their marriage, their son Robert was born. His second name was Valentin, after Carl's father. Today Bob Bayer lives in San Francisco with his wife Carole, who is of Italian descent and comes from New York.

In 1936, almost exactly four years to the day after she gave birth to her only child, Josephine died of pulmonary tuberculosis. She came from a Catholic family: one of her brothers, Michael, was a priest and was in charge of a large seminary in Florida. His sister Loise did the housework for him. After Josephine's death, the two of them looked after little Robert. The death announcement, in German, was printed in Würzburg.

December 24, 1936 was the first Christmas Eve that father and son spent together with Carl's sister-in-law Louise. The lavish presents for Robert make it clear how prosperous America was at that time. In 1940 Carl bought a house in a suburb of Rochester for 5000 dollars, and lived in it for the rest of his life. It used to stand alone among open fields, but is now surrounded by a large number of other buildings.

No correspondence from Burgsinn to Rochester from the 1920s survives, but there are a number of letters from 1930 to 1936 as well as from after the war. The letters – written by Carl's mother, his sister, his brother-in-law Heinrich and, later on, his nieces – make it clear how closely connected the emigrant was with his family back in Germany. Both nieces emigrated to America too, in the early 1950s, and settled in Rochester and its environs.