Today's #grandma recording contained a lesson about #capitalism: Her mother Marie and her sister Pauline #Hercher (see photograph https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Hercher-14 sometimes collected European blueberries and sold them to a shop in the village. They received 1 Mark, while the shop […]
- four rounds of #winterWorkout
- finally understood relationship calculation by the Roman and the canonical way
- gave Paulina #Hercher a bit more biography for her profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-32
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #genealogy #WikiTree
Urgently trying to catch up with #grandma recordings for last week, I just heard of grandma being taken to about four flights around the #Alps, by her cousin Oskar #Hercher, who used to be a flight instructor in WW2. Once, they got into bad weather and almost hit the #EigerNordwand. Last minute […]
Today's #grandma recording mainly revolved around her beloved uncle Wilhelm #Hercher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-27 who often let her help him as a child. He once "paid" a classmate of her chocolate for copying him two contemporary songs, which he then sang during work. Grandma also […]
Belated #3GoodThings
- received the marriage record of Wilhelm #Hercher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-27 which I had ordered three weeks ago. The right margin is full of side notes 😍
- managed to stop working after 6.25 hours, which was a good compensation for the overtime of the last […]
Today's #grandma recording was partially difficult, because our topics were triggered by a back-then-present-day topic, which later turned out to be pretty traumatic for myself. But there also was a huge laugh: I mentioned a rather surprising name as witness of the wedding of her mother Marie […]
From the category of "just because we're not related at all, doesn't mean that you didn't play some tiny role in our family history and don't deserve a #WikiTree profile": Meet Hans #Britschkowski from #SeeheimJugenheim, to whom my great-great grandma and her son Emil #Hercher wrote a letter in […]
In the belated #grandma recording for this week, she told me about the crash of a Canadian Halifax bomber not very far from their farm on 21 Feb 1944: All 7 crew members survived the crash. One of them was discovered by our relative Emil #Hercher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-33 who […]
