Unpleasant News
As I keep adding
in profiles on the Geni.com site, I send invites to anyone whose email address
I have. I had contact with a gentleman
named Fred from my Oldenburg side of the family. When I uploaded his profile on Geni, I sent
the invite and not long afterward I got a message that he had joined the tree.
I was glad about that, because Fred had really seemed interested in the family
tree. I was hopeful he could update a
lot of the profiles.
When I woke up
today, I had an email from his account, except it was his wife writing letting
me know he had passed away last October.
I have not spoken to Fred in a long while.
Sometimes I feel
bad because I am unable to keep in contact with everyone. There is just not enough time in the day.
Dörrmoschel Book
I wonder about
the people who immigrated to America sometimes.
What must that have been like?
Think about it, your family had lived in the same area for generations.
Then you suddenly pack up and travel to a whole new world.
The general view
is the trip was hard, but worth it. How
was it for the ones that were left behind?
In the marriage
record that I transcribed yesterday, the groom had to explain about his
parents. They had left for America twenty-two years before and nobody had heard
from them since. I wonder if he ever found them.
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