- #grandma recording in the morning
- chat with a friend, who wasn't really online in the last days
- some things at work went good
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
- #grandma recording in the morning
- chat with a friend, who wasn't really online in the last days
- some things at work went good
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
Today's three #grandma recordings were recording on the road to and during our summer vacation in Romania in 2019. During the first meal on the road, I asked myself, if she had had toys as a kid, so I called her right after. I knew, how she and her sister played with the white glacé gloves from the inheritance of Kunigunde #Schindler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-1413, but it was nice to have her share again, how they received them, because ... [1/2]
#genealogy
- was looking forward to work, that's new!
- bathing and cuddling with #Gelbi
- managed to do a #grandma recording in the morning and some research this evening
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #genealogy
In today's #grandma recording, I told her about Josef #Steurenthaler from the #Gummersbach area and how I can't connect him to her and her father's Steurenthaler family. What a coincidence, that I found his origin some weeks ago and created his profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-184 during this weekend's #April2025ConnectAThon. I also created profiles for 26 descendants and their spouses, which had received from another researcher back then in 2019.
#WikiTree #Genealogy
This #grandma got to spend time holding her youngest #grandchild (age 3 months) this evening.
- managed to transcribe some #grandma recordings
- two really cool collaborative "puzzle" sessions at work and some other warm meetings
- 2.5 hours of overtime, that will come in handy for this weekend's #WikiTree #April2025ConnectAThon
- bonus: more Bolognese
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
At her home, #grandma saw redpoll #birds ("Birkenzeisig") in early spring once, bathing in a water hole in the snow. She had never heard their singing before, neither had I until today, I guess, thanks to YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEjbdNxARlM . Apparently they were traveling from Finland towards the South, but in March???
Apart from that, there barely was new information, and we were mostly talking about my #genealogy research results. I loved hearing her ask me, if I had enough tea, though.
First encounters with animals, was a recurring topic in today's #grandma recordings: Her group travel on the Danube, which for political reasons wasn't allowed to go to the mouth of the river, went to Hungarian #Puszta instead. There, for the first time in her life, she met a #donkey. It was pretty bold, stole things out of bags and was able to neigh like a horse.
- transcribed some #grandma recordings before breakfast
- had a really warm feedback talk with a colleague
- #Gelbi cleaned himself while I brushed my teeth and then he bathed (on my hand, like usual)
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
Mainly, the #grandma recordings of today were about me telling her about my #genealogy research results, though. I would have preferred her telling more stories, but hopefully the next recording will contain revelations again. I'm still pretty impressed with all the traveling she did, especially that she went on a cruise which even led her to St. Petersburg (Russia) in the 1970s. She said, she already kept a diary back then, but I don't have any diaries of her, unfortunately.
In today's #grandma recording, she told me how he transcribed an old contract about our farm. Apart from the old German script as such, she struggled with the spelling that was in dialect. The last world kept her up until 4 am, she said, when she finally was able to go to sleep after deciphering it. After her death, the folder with the 1821 contract was found, together with her transcript and was handed over to me. I'm so proud of her, how she pulled all this!
#genealogy #kurrent #palaeography
- check-up at the dermatologist was super fast, gave me the opportunity of a walk and remained without any findings (other than protecting the not so hairy top of my head from the sun)
- no "going somewhere outside" tasks left for the rest of the week
- two great recordings about very interesting and quite diverse topics of #grandma this morning
#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings
Yay, #grandma recordings from May 2019 are also transcribed, except for one with 3 h and 40 minutes, containing the visit of two daughters of grandma's second cousin from Switzerland as well as one of their cousins from our area. For an hour or something, I wasn't there with them. Since I didn't listen to the recording, yet, I still don't know, what they talked during that time. I was really lucky, that they allowed me to record nearly the whole thing. I will skip it for the moment. #genealogy
After I was done, a closer look revealed that there were only two tiny #grandma recording left for April 2019, so I pulled my tired self together and also processed those two. Next up: three recordings from May 2019 and eleven from July.The whole year has 50 recordings left. #genealogy
Today's belated #grandma recording from April 2019 mainly had me telling my latest research results. At one point, she claimed, that I wouldn't do this #genealogy stuff for a lifetime. I replied to her, that I'm not so sure about that.
Also she mentioned, that they had #bees at our home farm, until her grandma got sick and nobody looked at them anymore during winter. She said, she had a newspaper photograph, which showed her grandfather in front of the bees, but she couldn't find it anymore.
- woke up at 3:30 and had time and energy for #grandma recordings
- lots of time to code at work and almost no meetings
- turns out #Gelbi's collar does weird things with light, which makes it look like he's bleeding, although he wasn't
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
Today's #grandma recording mentioned Albert #Steurenthaler, who used to pick on grandma's aunt, for only having one child. "If that one dies, you won't have anyone", he said, bragging with his six (or five?) children. Then #WorldWarII came and five of his children died. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-82 #genealogy
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I see at least one #Grandma using #XMPP on a daily basis...
Grandmas were cranking out complicated engineering tasks well before many of us were born... they just do not usually get the credit for it...
Grandmas are people of variable and varied skills and abilities, just like any other humans.
- had to do something with expired milk, so I did milk rice with 1.5 liters (in the oven, without constant attention needed) as well as a bag of pudding
- managed to transcribe at least one #grandma recording this morning and research a tiny bit in parallel
- the difficult bug at work turned out to be in an area a lot less frightening, than the one I expected it in
#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings