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Week 8 is Heirlooms
I have several of them from my ancestors. My paternal grandmother’s ring, and my maternal grandmother’s dessert plates. I also have several from my great grandmother. Her ‘Rebecca at the Well’ tea pot, and her cookie cutters. But the one that I use the most is her Springerle board. I do not know if she…
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
Week 6 – Earning a Living My grandfather, Tony Sauerwald, was an artist. Born Franz Georg Emil August Anton Sauerwald on 2 February 1873 in Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany, he was the oldest child of Emil and Eva Sauerwald. In the summer of 1883, his father left for the United States and found work in…