FlominatorToday'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 per pound, while the shop owner, an uncle of ski-jumper #GeorgThoma, sold them for 6 Mark.
- 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
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, they found a hole to break through and ended up above the town #Chur, but again with the nicest weather. Let's see, what this week's record will bring!
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 talked about his wife and how her and the isolated Black Forest farm weren't really a match. She also dropped some clues on relationships to other people from the village, which help me to jump source gaps.
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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 days and gave me some space
- bathed #Gelbi and cuddled with him
#ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy
- 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 days and gave me some space
- bathed #Gelbi and cuddled with him
#ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy
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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 #Hercher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-14 and asked, if that name "rings a bell" (in German it's only "does something ring there") and she said "no, on my side the connection is fine" 😂
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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 1947, because he was a comrade of their brother/son Wilhelm Hercher during #WW2 and he might have known something about Wilhelm's fate.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Britschkowski-1 #genealogy
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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 first took him to his parent's farm for food and then to town-hall. The local Nazi boss, said that this was unnecessary. He could have just shot him. Emil refused: He had been a pow in WW1 and also got home alive! #genealogy
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Today's belated #grandma recordings had her talk about two relatives, that she had never met, but she kept hearing her family talk about them. I was able to track down both of them: Peter #Steurenthaler (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-107 ), a cousin of her father, who was musician (like his son, who was killed in WW1) and Rebekka #Hercher, who emigrated to the US as a nun in the 19th century (no profile so far, maybe during #January2025ConnectAThon )
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#genealogy
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Couldn't help myself (again), had to write a profile, about the guy who was killed by an accident while working for the company who later built the dam at #Schluchsee and who then employed my first cousin three times removed, Rudolf #Hercher
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stenger-496
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stenger-496
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