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The year has flown by again and here I am staring 2017 in the face! Before the year was over I wanted to re-visit some of the places I’ve traveled this year and share some of the interesting places with you. After our September Rhineland tour, my partner Matthias and I spent a few days […]
Our Mecklenburg tour ended about a week ago and I think I can say it was successful, although we had our worries. This was a tough place for finding contacts. First off, Mecklenburg is a beautiful area, I keep calling it “big sky country” lots of open fields and wide expanses of sky. Lucky for […]
I recently attended an all day seminar with one of the leading German experts. Lectures were very interesting as were the questions the audience asked, they ranged from complicated to basic. It reminded me that when you are starting out with German research its helpful to know a few things going in. A few months […]
Mardi Gras, actually French for “Fat Tuesday”, refers to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent’s 40 days of repentance that ends on Easter Sunday. Bringing out the wild side of people, Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras as it is more commonly referred to, is filled with events to tempt the final moments […]
So we sent everyone out via train to visit their hometowns last Wednesday and usually we have to wait until they come back in the evening (or next day) until we find out how their day went, but this time Matthias and I were taking one couple to visit their hometowns too. We headed first […]
I wanted to do a trip diary day by day but I should know by now that this is not possible, days too busy and long to blog. So this is a recap of our recent group trip to the Northwest area of Germany. I am in a beautiful hotel in OstFriesland (scouting for a […]
Finally, our Television debut on German TV! Last September on our small group tour to the Rhineland area we were joined by a German TV crew after a journalist had contacted me asking if we would allow them to follow us around. We said yes and they were with the group for a couple days […]
On our Rhineland trip this year (2013) we visited and toured the Evangelische Archivestelle Boppard (the Evangelish Church Archives in Boppard) This depository has microfilms and many books for the Protestant church records in the Rhineland, we were shown their collection of Familienbuchs and were taken down into the stacks where we were shown some […]
The Wandering Years On my recent trip to Germany, I caught a news story on TV that was of interest to me (although my understanding of spoken German is very limited) and perhaps to others with German heritage. The story was about a traveling craftsman and his wanderbuch. This gentleman was an apprentice bricklayer, and […]