Two years ago, a number of families(Gertrude in particular-in mauve sweater) who had recently immigrated from Russia to Germany contacted Dolores looking for info about the David Penner(her grandfather's) family. Her Grampa Penner was the only brother of 6(?) to come to Canada in 1926.[It's complicated because of step-siblings] Now Dolores was in contact-letters & phonecalls and since we had to fly via Frankfurt, we decided to take some of her family history to them. We were hosted lavishly by the busdriver couple and spent 3 days in Bad Waldsee close to the Swiss border. They treated us like Royalty...food, lodging & sightseeing...only one problem...they speak Russian, Low German, High German....in that order but we managed to communicate even tho it stretched my "comfort" level![It's hard work esp for a hard of hearing guy] then another "David Penner"...my age came to pick us up(a 4 hr oneway trip) and took us back to central Germany...see next blog!
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