Today I got an email from Ancestry that they had found some potential matches from my grandfather, Willi Schridde. My thought was what could they possibly have found?
Usually it is someone who is not a match or they found a tree match, which is really one of my other trees. I had called them one day and asked if there was anyway I could merge the four trees and they told me there was not.
Back to Willi........I knew from reading the news story about his death by electrocution as I had written HERE about his being injured in WWI. The information they sent me was from a book and it had him listed as being a casualty in the war. Since he was German it was published in Germany. I know it was him because his birthday was correct, and much to my surprise he was injured twice once in 1914 and once in 1917. Now I wonder if there are other records to describe his injuries, from the article about his death I think they were serious.
Now, on my to do list is to look at the towns that were listed and see if I can find records about his family. He was born in Quickborn, but his "parents left soon after his birth" This leads me to believe that perhaps she went into labor while on a visit to some relatives.
More to be discovered. I am glad I took the class about how to read Franktur....which is that "Gothic" style of German writing.
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