I had a busy long weekend. 3 games of golf (Glen Cedars, Dentonia, Tangle Creek), over 8 hours in the garden (rebuilt the side of the pond, edged the front yard flower beds, laid down some mulch, trimmed and pruned the shrubs, and cut the grass). I also finished decoding the family tree that was given to us while in Sonneberg in May.
The tree includes the occupations of my ancestors. There were (going back from my grandfather): 2 businessmen (kaufmann), 4 carpenters (zimmermann or schreiner), 1 workman (handarbeiter), 1 Hat makers (putzmachein), 4 tailors (schneidermeister) , 2 nail makers (nagelschmied), 1 dyer (rußbrenner) and 1 butcher (Metzger).
The cities that come up through birth, marriage or death over the past 250 years are: Forschengereuth (8 times/6km from Sonneberg), Gärtenroth (3/37km), Grub am Forst (1/23km), Konigsee (1/52km), Langenau (1/300km), Meiningen (1/86km), Mengersgereuth (2/10 km), Neustadt (1/8km), Rottenbach (1/54km), Sattelpass (2/14km), Schwarzwald (1/7km), Seltendorf (1/12), Sonneberg (75)
Some observations:
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