Thursday, December 25, 2008

Genealogy

I just finished my gift for my grandma. She's kindof big into genealogy, and while I was in Germany, I stopped in Regensburg and found that the Lutheran records had all been moved to Nuermberg. So I went to Nuermberg, and arrived at the place like 15 minutes before it closed. In the 15 minutes, I managed to find the names and information for 6 ancestors. Rock on.
I decided that instead of just giving her the photocopies of the slides, I would try to do a little decryption out of German into Legibility. One of the guys I ran across was born exactly 195 years ago. Johann Georg Foerster, related to me through my mother's mother's side. It was pretty incredible to think that he might be watching me excitedly from heaven now...
And for those German buffs, I think that's what it says right? Friday, 24th of December .. um 11 Uhr ??? (abends?)

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