Family Archaeologist
“Family Archaeologist” explores a century of family letters, diaries, and artifacts, and how they illuminate history and our shared humanity. To get an overview of the blog, click “Welcome to Family Archaeologist.”
“Family Archaeologist” explores a century of family letters, diaries, and artifacts, and how they illuminate history and our shared humanity. To get an overview of the blog, click “Welcome to Family Archaeologist.”
Lisi’s “Passport” Traveling sure was different 100 years ago. My grandmother, Lisi Ebner had to get all her papers in order to travel to America. I found her “passport” among the artifacts she left behind. She had actually written on [...]
June 7, 1911, postcard from Lisi to Josef. The two love-birds in a heart of roses, the clasped hands, and the forget-me-not blue flowers speak of love without saying a word. Lisi has made up her mind! One [...]
The blue flowers are “forget-me-nots” Josef’s long, heartfelt letter of May 25th, 1911, (click: If you love me…) could not yet have reached Lisi in Transylvania when she picked out this sweet postcard and wrote to him on May 30th. [...]
Travel Tuesday – Monument to the dead Sam Ebner, Lisi’s brother, died in the Battle of Galicia, one of the earliest battles in WWI. (See previous two posts: The Fallen-Part I and The Fallen-Part II). I wrote about my brothers and [...]
Travel Tuesday “Names of the Fallen”Samuel Ebner-2nd from top Father and Son, both Samuel Ebner ~ 1902-05. My grandmother, Lisi’s,brother and father. In the first post in this three-part series about Samuel Ebner, my grandmother’s younger [...]