Thanks to all!

[SarahND]

Sarah, you missed the Beer festival here that happened last week.

Well, since I was in Belgium at the time, I can't say I missed much in the way of beer

Finally back home in France, after a successful swing by a village in Germany where one of my 4th great grandfathers was born before taking the boat to Pennsylvania. (called variously "Pinssil Fania" and even "Bünsel Fany" in the emigration records ) His daughter married my Stewart ancestor. As luck would have it, there was a man at the local genealogy society who had already taken a branch of my rellie's family back to 1450

Since my German is pretty pitiful after nearly 30 years of inactivity, guess who facilitated the whole thing for me? A distant cousin on a Scottish line, whose great grandmother married a German. Her branch has been in Germany ever since. So, the moral of the story is... you never know when a Scottish connection will come in handy, even in a tiny village in Baden-Württemberg!

Cheers,
Sarah

[Russell]

Sarah

Wheeeh

The Glasgow expression is "If you fell in the Clyde you'd come out with a salmon"

Mind you - where's the fun if someone has already done it

Russell

[SarahND]

Mind you - where's the fun if someone has already done it

Not to worry... there's plenty more where that came from! I think we can all rest assured that a genealogy is never "finished"

Sarah