#falkau — Public Fediverse posts
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Today's #grandma recordings are a little belated, thanks to #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree (which was not as pleasant as the previous ones, because I lacked motivation and physical energy for most of the weekend and needed a break after every second profile or so).
The two recordings from January 1st, 2023, kick off the last year of her life 😢 She didn't know anything to say, when I asked about an alleged carpenter apprenticeship of her father, who was really great at repairing all kinds of things.
Then I asked her, how she got her her driver's license: She took a break of a half a year, because the instructor was getting on her nerves. In the end, she received it at the first attempt. The guy in charge said, he had to ponder, if she should receive the precious document. In her usual way, she just slapped him with "then ponder!", which apparently did the trick.
Her and her brothers were the first from the family to get driver's licenses. Her sister and her parents never had one. Her uncle Wilhelm https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-27 only had his bike, which was equipped with a carbide lamp. On Sundays he always went somewhere to dance. While her grandmother always thought, that he took the train to #Freiburg, my grandma learned many years later, that he only went to nearby #Falkau, where they danced in the barn of a farm. A woman, who was visiting her some sixty years later, told her, how much she enjoyed dancing with him. What a pity, that he passed away as a Russian prisoner of war in the late 1940s.
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Today's #grandma recordings are a little belated, thanks to #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree (which was not as pleasant as the previous ones, because I lacked motivation and physical energy for most of the weekend and needed a break after every second profile or so).
The two recordings from January 1st, 2023, kick off the last year of her life 😢 She didn't know anything to say, when I asked about an alleged carpenter apprenticeship of her father, who was really great at repairing all kinds of things.
Then I asked her, how she got her her driver's license: She took a break of a half a year, because the instructor was getting on her nerves. In the end, she received it at the first attempt. The guy in charge said, he had to ponder, if she should receive the precious document. In her usual way, she just slapped him with "then ponder!", which apparently did the trick.
Her and her brothers were the first from the family to get driver's licenses. Her sister and her parents never had one. Her uncle Wilhelm https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-27 only had his bike, which was equipped with a carbide lamp. On Sundays he always went somewhere to dance. While her grandmother always thought, that he took the train to #Freiburg, my grandma learned many years later, that he only went to nearby #Falkau, where they danced in the barn of a farm. A woman, who was visiting her some sixty years later, told her, how much she enjoyed dancing with him. What a pity, that he passed away as a Russian prisoner of war in the late 1940s.