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  1. Today's #grandma recording from October 2021 I couldn't transcribe in one round. I is 28:44 long and I had to stop after 20 minutes and over 160 bulleted lines of notes.

    It mainly revolved around the mandatory social year, grandma did at her aunt Sophie #Steurenthaler ( wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthale ), who lost her husband to the war in that time. She was crying all day for months, which made grandma furious. She promised herself, that she would never be like this. And she said, she wasn't, when her own husband passed away about 20 years later.

    After she left from Sophie, since that one didn't have work for her anymore, she managed to work for an evacuated orphanage in her neighborhood. She had huge fights with her dad about it, since she made 1 Mark an hour, while he only received 38 Pfennig with working in the forest for the state. I found it funny, that this story popped up this close to #InternationalWomensDay, where #GenderPayGap is one of the central topics usually.

    #WomensDay #Genealogy

  2. Today's #grandma recording was about a #custom her family would perform on #Candlemas/#Lichtmess: They would cut pieces of candles from a wax taper ("Wachsstock"/"Kerzenstock"), stick them on a piece of wood and would leave them outside, to harden. Then they would get them in, light them up, do three high-speed rosaries ("Rosenkranz") and go with the burning candles into the cowshed and blow out the candles. The burnt wick ("Docht") would then go in the soup.

    #genealogy #religion #christianity

  3. in one of today's #grandma recordings, which was the last one of February 2019, she suggested that we visit Gotthardhof in #Staufen together, from where - according to family lore - one could see 12 or 15 church towers. Unfortunately, the pandemic, but also my priorities prevented this, until it was too late. At least she was there with my mum before already. Her great-great grandfather Johann #Steurenthaler had bought the property and his widow later sold it. wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Gottha
    #genealogy

  4. Grandma Korn cares not its almost Christmas. She only cares that you try her delicious fresh candy corn.
    @worldslargestcandycorn
    #candycorn #grandmakorn #candy #corn #worldslargest #grandma #georgia #aiphotography #generativeart