The family recipe collection in the making

I am still catching up with the weekly blopgosts of the 52 ancestors challenge and while going through the list of topics I stumbled over "In the kitchen" Thinking about our family tradition when it comes to food I realized that I do cook how I learnt it from my parents and how the learnt …

52 Ancestors – my most favourite photo

"I actually cannot decide on my most favourite photo as I have two!" Since I can remember, this picture as been in a photo album my grandfather created for my mother. It is my great grandmother (his mother) Agnes Klara Hedwig RIBBE, born October 8, 1878 in Staßfurt, Saxony-Anhaltina, Germany- she died way too young …

52 ancestors – Family Legends

This week's topic of the "52 ancestors in 52 weeks" challenge is FAMILY LEGENDS and this one really made me think. I don't really have a family legend, I was going through all of my branches and all my lines - up and down and up again. Over to in-laws and down again, but there …

52 ancestors – what’s with this Valentine?

This week's prompt for the 52 ancestors challenge is "Valentine". How fitting for the week of February 14. Let's see what we have here. I don't have any Valentine or Valentina in my family tree. Really! I double checked. So I went for the date. February 14 - what happened on my family tree? And …

52 ancestors – the favourite name

This week's prompt is really interesting as in last week's genchatDE (the German version of the genchat) we had a discussion on names. How it is not helpful when ancestors carry the same names in different variations. Like Sophia Maria or Maria Sophia or just Sophia or Maria. So many of my ancestors and family …