Going to the Dogs
Given the shocking name of “Linda” TRAVEL TUESDAY My parents named me Linda. This shocked my grandfather, Josef. He said to my father, “For why you name a girl Linda? In Romania they only name the dogs Linda.” [...]
Blitzbuggy—A Car with History
Model A Ford-1929 (See Blitzbuggy below)credit: Hubcapcafe.com It’s Carnival of Genealogy (CoG) again, the monthly opportunity for genealogy bloggers to ponder a specific topic—and for April it’s cars. Thanks to Jasia at Creative Gene for hosting CoG. Blitzbuggy. For those [...]
Searching for Home
Travel Tuesday When we took a brief visit to Sibiu (Hermannstadt to the Germans), we marveled at the massive wall surrounding the city, its combination of thirty-nine towers and four bastions a bulwark against invading Ottoman Turks. But while Sibiu defended the [...]
The Pocket Watch and the Packing List
The pocket watch lay in Box 14 for the past seventeen years—and untold decades prior—in my grandparents’ cedar chest. I had assumed it was my grandfather’s watch, but didn’t know when he had acquired it. Its wide, crisply-numbered face and [...]
“John Philip Sousa” of Neppendorf
Marching Band of Neppendorf – 1925″Neppendörfer Neue Musikkapelle”Michael Gärtz, bottom row, 3rd from left Travel Tuesday When we walked into the small museum at the back of my grandfather’s Lutheran Church in Neppendorf (near Sibiu) and found photos [...]