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

- 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

Today's #grandma recording was about Joseph #Gündhart, a lumberjack from #Unterammergau in #Bavaria, who came to Black Forest in search of work before WW II. He fell in love there twice. For the rich farmer parents of the first woman, he wasn't good enough. She never married and lived in a tiny apartment later. The second one, he married. They had children. After her death, he shared a house with his forever unmaried sister-in-law. He planted peach trees and conserved the peaches. #genealogy

Yesterday, I called a town hall because of a story about a pub/inn #grandma had told me. I was looking for a place that was owned by a #Steurenthaler family. The woman told me about privacy rights, but I said I'm only looking for a local history buff. She gave me a number. He knew all inns and their history, but no hit. Still was a pleasant talk. I also managed to do some emails in the morning and some paperwork in the evening (leftovers from weekend).
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy

Forgot #3GoodThings yesterday:
- progress at work - slow, but still
- found #pizza leftovers
- managed to transcribe a #grandma recording
#ThreeGoodThings

Today's #grandma recording told the story of a woman, who came from the #Hamburg area to Black Forest during the war (maybe to #Heuweiler). There she married somebody named #Steurenthaler, which also was grandma's maiden name. The man, who used to be grandma's foster kid, introduced the two women to each other. She was a waitress in Hamburg back then. Maybe she is identical to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-11, of whom I so far only know a death date and a short clip on YouTube.
#genealogy

- received my medal for contributing 20 years to German #Wikipedia (although it got significantly less, since I discovered #genealogy and especially #WikiTree as a hobby)
- managed to transcribe some #grandma recordings this morning
- intense @WikiTree_Stammtisch session this evening
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

The highlight of today's #grandma recording probably was her pretty accurate verdict about my mother's favorite radio station ("sounds like children singing", "low intellectual"), which grandma had set as only station in her radio anyway, because they provide local news every 30 minutes. She also told me the surname of the father of an "illegitimate" child. Unfortunately it's a common name and she didn't know the first name anymore. #genealogy

Now this gone tooo far!!!! It is a #cardinalrule, #goldenrule, and just #commonsense . YOU DO !!!!!!!!!!NOT!!!!! MESS WITH ANYONES MOTHER!!!!!

I bet if #Musk #Grandma was involved.. He would think twice………. Than again. When you do not have a-soul! It is hard to feel anymore!

#dumass #morons #grandma #wtf #elonmusk #fafo #anythinggoesnews #SouthAfricanDumAss #USNEWS #press #shoesmithlc

From: @byteseu
https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/113985588266534813

- my boss liked something me and a colleague did, I thought he would tear apart
- I won something
- woke up earlier and had enough Flo time to transcribe a really good #grandma record
Bonus: #Gelbi made that noise again
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

In today's #grandma recording, she told me how many #cows she had at each place she lived during her life and how the water froze, when she was alone one winter, because she forgot to leave it running. For four weeks, she then needed to carry water inside for the six cows and two calves, because she didn't dare to leave them out. She was too worried, she might not get them back inside. This was the last pf 8 recording from March 2019. #genealogy

In this week's #grandma recording, I asked her about #praying at the table. She said, that her and her parents used to pray before and after the meal. They were still doing that during World War II, until some soldiers were quartered at them. Then it stopped and they never resumed. I had experiences with praying before eating at some friends, but I had never heard about praying after eating as well. Did you? #genealogy #prayer

The road to the doctor's appointment went down memory lane: first half was the road I went to every Sunday for the last six months of #grandma, the other half was the road from work to home of a former life.

Still in March 2019, #grandma talked about how her father Ludwig #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-2 learned to be a charcoal burner and later a sawyer in the sawmill of his brother. There used to be a former charcoal burning site (kiln) in the neighborhood, where her mother used to go and fill a sack of #flower soil, after removing the grass layer. She also talked about some relatives in a neighboring village, which I still didn't manage to figure out or connect. #genealogy