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In 2014, I started blogging about my progress in writing ‘Wandervögel: A Prussian Family’s Passage Through Leipzig.’ Those posts were published on Facebook with the aim being to share news with family, friends and others who 'Liked' what I was doing.
For interested readers' convenience, I now share all 100+ posts here (see those pages linked in the lower right column).
After all, as social media guru @GuyKawasaki writes "of all content, you should share your own blog posts."
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Who's That Guy? (Dec 26) There’s one chap in our family story who 'drops in' and 'out.' He was known only as ‘Onkel Albert’ to my grandmother. But this super-sleuth eventually determined he was in fact, Albert Petzold. Just how did I do it?
Readers' Reactions (Dec 4) It took an age to finish, but Part 2 of Chapter XVII “LOVE'S GREAT ADVENTURES (1957-1962)” would have been a lot less personal were it not for the ‘Uranium City Friends’ Facebook group.
There Goes Prussia! (Nov 27)
Where there’s a will, there’s a way! And thanks to my great grandmother’s (testimony, that is, not character, lol), I learned a fair bit about her identity, her best friend, why she left Berlin for Hamburg in 1939, and pinpointed her daughter’s home in sub-arctic Canada!
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The Anglo-Saxon Knot (July 25) I'll run a risk with this headline because strictly speaking, Nanny Ridderhof's daughters are only half-German.
But when the eldest marries a UK-based Royal Air Force service man, several sub-stories pan-out
The first part of Chapter XVII (Dreams of Leaving, 1950-1956) is available.
With part 1 of chapter XVII summarised in an earlier blog, this news item especially features the late Tiny Ridderhof (my eulogy being here), to whom I owe so much gratitude for all the stories she passed on.
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Take My Breath Away
(March 28) Leipzig has been home to various members of our family since 1879, when journeyman and would-be master tailor, Friedrich Hinsch (my great great grandfather), registered at the city’s Einwohner-
meldeamt (resident’s office). And two years ago, I announced here that we ourselves, that is, my family and I, were Leipzig-bound within a year.
Notwithstanding a false start, the COVID-19 pandemic by and large shelved those plans (although to be honest a suspicion had already crept in that my employer and I were not the best fit). While it would have been a fitting end to this Wandervogel's story, an even better tale has emerged a year on...
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In the News (Jan. 12)
An unsurprising number of references to my pet project in this interview with xpatloop.com.
Questions include, "If you were given a wish that could come true, what would you ask for?", "If someone wrote a biography about you, what would the title be?" and "If you could trade places with any other person for a week, real or fictional, with whom would it be?"
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