Finally done with pre-sorting and naming a lot of audio recordings with different people up to the month that #grandma died. For the first time, I have the absolut count without any estimates: 144 grandma recordings left to transcribe from April 2022 until October 2023.

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Belated #grandma recording (and then on the other such a long one, that it could count for this week as well 🤔)

Sad highlight might have been about her uncle Emil Hercher (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-33, the one with the incredible flight from being a prisoner of war): After the death of his wife, grandma's mother took care of him at his home for several months. When grandma visited her there for Christmas, her mother locked him in in the living room, since he "doesn't need to hear everything we talk". When grandma left, she saw him laying on the couch with a sad face. She was sure, he was looking forward to spending some time with her as well.

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Millennial mom is stunned when grandma compares parenting in the 80s to now

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/80s-mom-vs-modern-parenting-ex1/

Very belated #grandma recording I forgot to post about yesterday. It took us back to her third year of life, when they finally built a chimney at their farm. Before that, there used to be a "smoke kitchen" ("Rauchküche", https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauchküche) with open fire. She remembered how black the members of her family were, when they took down the "cover"/"top" of it and built a room on top of the kitchen instead. My favorite ancestor, Kunigunde Schindler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-1413, had wanted to spend her older days at the farm, but the husband of her daughter, grandma's grandfather, refused to install a chimney (which she had demanded for her to come there), so she remained in Switzerland. A few years after the death of grandma's grandfather, his widow and/or her daughter pushed forward the installation of the chimney.

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Very belated #grandma recordings this morning (for last week); grandma had told me about two farmers who had forced laborers during World War II: one of them had a married couple from Poland, which had to eat in the kitchen, not together with the family in the eating room. One day, the woman jumped his back and scratched his face. The other one had a couple from Ukraine. They should have also eaten in the kitchen, but he refused. His reasoning: "if they work like us, they also eat like us!"

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