Spending the Day With Grandparents

Yesterday I was bored and really needed to get out of the house. I decided since I haven't seen my grandparents in awhile and won't be seeing them for the next couple of months it was time for a visit. I headed over there around 1 and they were watching the Brewer's game. My grandma is a HUGE fan. She doesn't miss one game if she has anything to say about it. Lucky for me, they won big time. We did lots of chit chatting about our lives and family who are coming in to town for a visit in the near future. She also informed me that one of my aunts and uncles might be moving back to the area soon and they are coming to visit at the end of the month and most likely will be looking at houses. That would be awesome to have the family slowly start trickling back home.

My grandma was also talking to be about our ancestry and how she doesn't know what her mother was. I've always been interested in learning about our past. Especially with our family we can only trace back so far. Our name isn't a very popular name and is rarely ever found in telephone books or any genealogy books. They do believe it got shortened somewhere down the line so we could be a variety of things. We do know we are German because my grandma's dad was born there and moved to this country when he was 5. He apparently told my grandma that the city he was from was bombed and no longer existed so we'd never be able to find it. There have been some distant relatives that have been doing research on the family. Apparently, one of the cousins put a whole book together on his research. Which I would love to get my hands on, but no one knows where he is exactly. My grandpa has German on his side also but he only knows up to where his grandparents are in the family line. He knows they were born in the United States, but doesn't know further back than that. He has been told that his family came from a border region around Germany and France. So I suppose we could also be French. Anyways, someday I would love to find out exactly what my family is other than German.

Catching up with the grandparents is great. I feel like I learn so much from them one on one instead of when the whole family gets together. I think the next time I go for a visit I hope I can look through old photos of people. That would be so incredibly fun.

Peace&Love
~L