Unwinding with family history
After our training course from 12-16 May, which was a pretty busy week, I've been catching up on personal stuff:editing manuscripts for clients, and entering family history information into the computer.
My wife is descended from Huguenots who were refugees in Germany - first they went to the Rhineland, but that was too close to France, so they went further east to the Ueckermark, north-east ofr Berlin. For 20 years they married French, and only after that doe some German names appear. And they are so intermarried that it is difficult to disentangle the families - Bettacs married Devantiers married Gomberts married Honores and so on.
And they all named their eldest sons Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And if one of them died, the next one got lumbered with the missing handle. And it seems that Jacques and Jacob were not equivalent - there could sometimes be one or two of each in the same family. And the girls were all Susanna, Esther and Judith -- seems like the Huguenots didn't think the Deuterocanonical books were all that apocryphal!
My wife is descended from Huguenots who were refugees in Germany - first they went to the Rhineland, but that was too close to France, so they went further east to the Ueckermark, north-east ofr Berlin. For 20 years they married French, and only after that doe some German names appear. And they are so intermarried that it is difficult to disentangle the families - Bettacs married Devantiers married Gomberts married Honores and so on.
And they all named their eldest sons Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And if one of them died, the next one got lumbered with the missing handle. And it seems that Jacques and Jacob were not equivalent - there could sometimes be one or two of each in the same family. And the girls were all Susanna, Esther and Judith -- seems like the Huguenots didn't think the Deuterocanonical books were all that apocryphal!