Today was our final day here. This morning we packed our things and thanked Elfrieda, Jutta’s dear friend, who shared an empty apartment with us this last week. This apartment was perfect in every way.
Then we went down to load the car before heading back to the Archives for one last morning of digitizing the records. Each evening we were allowed to take the civil registry volumes home to work on afterhours, which was such a blessing.
Each batch of records was carefully copied onto this external drive, to make more room in our phones and computers.
When we got down to the car, there was a problem. We couldn’t get out!
Eventually the workers put a temporary cover over the trench so we could back out.
This is Regina, the Archivist, who was so helpful and kind.
Here’s the room where we worked. Today we finished the marriage records.
This has been one of the happiest weeks of our time here in Germany.
Goodbye to the Rathaus and Archives.
And then one last good bye to Grandma’s home across the street.
Here is one more ancestral home we went by on our way to Martin and Jutta’s farm. This is the home where Martin’s grandparents, Heinrich and Sofie lived. Heinrich is my Grandpa Rudolf’s brother. Sofie’s father, Johann Heinrich Werner, built this double home. The home of the right side was sold to help pay for the left side, where Heinrich and Sofie lived. Johann Heinrich Werner built a second home just like this one on Heilbronnerstrasse in town for another of his daughters, perhaps Frieda, the mother of Gerhard Hauff, or perhaps for Marie Karoline. In each case, the second side was sold to help pay for the home.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 