1. I was contacted by a lady who inherited a big pile of letters from ~1889, sent to her ancestor by a teenager friend from Paris. This friend often mentions her neighbor friends in her letters: my ggfather A. Dreyfus and his family.
2. My mom found ~50 letters from 1870-1871, sent from Paris to my ancestor Adolphe Grünberg as he was away with his family during the siege of the city by the Prussians. I only saw 3 letters so far, but it's very promising content!
There are in particular some letters about the children organizing theater plays and operas, with some fun scenes.
🧵 What are some genealogy mysteries you're hoping to solve this year? 🧵
1. I'm hoping to find out what really happened with the Fort Daspoortrand plans in Pretoria during the Boer War in 1900.
When Felix Zottier was found with plans of this fort in his home, he claimed to be the original designer and accused Leon Grunberg of copying his work...
This was never proved, and Zottier fled South Africa shortly after, apparently to Madagascar. I'm hoping I can find out what really happened...
I missed #ancestryhour yesterday as I was busy breaking a wall I've had for months. Thanks to a generous researcher who went through 700+ pages of census to help me find a family, I have now been able to put names on the people in these family pictures.
Better yet, I now know that Léonie Baranger was my great-grand-mother's (who appears on the first picture) cousin (1C1R actually), hence the reason I have this pic.
Next step: find descendants to send them the pictures!