Seide is “silk” in German. Buch is “book” in German. Yet, Seidenbuch isn’t “book of silk”. It is the name of a little village in the Odenwald. Where – according to family lore – an ancestor of mine was born and grew and left to go to a town about 30 kilometers away to find his luck, or rather employment. This happened a bit more than 100 years ago and the man was my grandfather who I’ve never met and hence, this is all hearsay.
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Well, it’s a good family story anyway.
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It’s a good starting point if you ever want to find out about him
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I am not into ancestry research myself. It never really interested me beyond my grandparents (and this grandfather disappeared out of my father’s life before he started school).
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Fair enough but does sound like a good mystery to solve
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I never met either of my grandfathers and only one of my grandmothers, who passed when I was very young. All I know about them is…well, almost nothing.
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