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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 wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-14, but it was nice to have her share again, how they received them, because ... [1/2]
#genealogy

www.wikitree.comKunigunda Schindler (1840-1921) | WikiTree FREE Family TreeIs this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Kunigunde Schindler born 1840 Hinterzarten, Neustadt, Baden, Deutscher Bund died 1921 Lugano, Tessin, Schweiz including ancestors + descendants + 4 photos + 9 genealogist comments + more in the free family tree community.

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 wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthale 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

www.wikitree.comJoseph Steurenthaler | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
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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:
youtube.com/watch?v=BEjbdNxARl . 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.

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

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

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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.

- 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