Friday, July 2, 2010

MAJOR BRICK WALL CRUMBLED

My excitement has been realized.. My German cousin is official. Our grandparents are siblings and she identified the five sisters with their names.

This all was because she and I both joined My Heritage Family Tree. I had joined in the spring and she had joined in June. She told me that she was unaware that she had family living in the USA. I can honestly say that I knew I had relatives living in Germany, but I did not know who they were or how to contact them.

She also told me that her mother knew the Schridde Family History. I will have to ask her if her mother is still alive. Her mother would be eighty two, so, it is possible that she is living.

The interesting part is her mothers name is Gerda and she was named after my mother. Gerda, my mother, would have been five years older than her cousin.

More to come.

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  2. Congratulations, Claudia - These are the best kinds of connections. Now the fun begins!

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  3. That's great, Claudia! Congratulations!

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  4. Congratulations. Coincidences, collisions.How lucky.

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