Its been a long year

Circumstances being what they are I have not posted anything on the family in a long time. Mostly because I do not have new info. I have been improving my German langauge skills slowly and surely and totally obsessed with Matthias Reim's music. Talk about taking a detour! But also the family past has had to take a back seat to the present. I am so jealous of people who get to invest 40 hour work weeks on their family history. I just do not have the that kind of time while I am wrapped up in surviving.

That said I was surprised to find that we have two new followers... Laura and Fritz. Google was not able to connect me to a profile so I know nothing of them except that they are here and they have some sort of interest in our goings on. So "Wilkommen!" And "Veilen Dank" I am glad you are following. Feel free to leave comments. I activated the post moderation so that anyone who shares personal contact information doesn't get hassled. I know that makes it a hassle for everyone else. But telephone numbers and such posted on the internet is a bad idea and I just can't get some people to understand that. So please.... please... please keep leaving comments. The moderating is just for your personal saftey.

A sheild

I don't know what the source for this is. I suspect it comes from a better version of the Wappenbuch that I mentioned before. I haven't made much progress here lately. Been a hectic year. But I do hope to have more to offer soon.

This strikes me as a bit of a "Do'h" kind of a thing. A scriptorium monk in the sheild confirms what the author of Dirty German says... Germans are geeks. I guess it's in the DNA or something. So if you obsessively collect anything, spend a lot of time in your head researching things in depth on subjects that seem rather archaic and pointless to others while hanging your hat on obtaining every piece of new technology that you can afford.... you gotta know that you are definately, unabashedly and irrevocably German.