Day 8: Bayreuth Bavaria to Weimar
[Image description] I went to Bayeuth to hook up with my distant cousin Leyla. We are connected through the Nissen family. Her great great grandfather was in the tobacco trade first in St Petersburg Russia,...
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Day 7: Ketzin And Halle
Ketzin is where Ferdinand Hahn was born. The house that he was born in burned down when he was 2. So he was given a new home with the insurance money. This is the house. [Picture] [Picture] There is a...
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Day6: East Berlin
[Picture] [Picture] Another big day of research! Good fellowship with my comrades in studying a rich and facinating family history. So much to say but I will just post a bit. [Picture] Gracious and generous...
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Day 5: Morganlaendische Frauen Mission Berlin
[Picture] Today I had to slow down a bit and rested, read, did some writing, and enjoyed the lovely Hotel Morganland on Finkensteinstrasse in south Berlin. [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] [Image description]...
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Day 4: Die Kinder Biene
[Picture] Again today was spent mostly at the Gossner Mission looking through fifty nine years of "Die Kinder Biene Aug del Missionsfelde fur Jung and Alt". This was the mission journal for the German...
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Day 3: Berlin, Gossner Mission On Geogenkirchstrass
[Picture] I don't know how, but after a day that began at 2:30 this morning, I am still going after 16 hours. After I give a brief post about the day and finish my dinner, I'm going to crash for 12 hours!...