Today's #grandma recording mentioned her brother Ludwig #Steurenthaler and how he regularly was sent to get the neighbor's horse - at the age of three. He wasn't afraid at all of the huge animal, while grandma, his nine years older sister was and couldn't be sent for the job. At the same age, he was also already #skiing. People explained it with the fact, that he almost was born while his mother was on #ski.
Only one record from the year 2020 left.
Transcribed the first of the last three #grandma recordings for 2020. A big part was about her father. As a soldier in #WW1, he was stationed in #Alsace/#Elsass at/near Château de Landskron. He kept hearing the bell of nearby Mariastein Abbey in Canton #Solothurn in #Switzerland. He wanted to go there after the war. Grandma was convinced that he got married there. He didn't. But I've found a previously unknown wedding of another #Steurenthaler couple when asking them to check.
Couldn't sleep anymore and took the chance to document one of the Polish forced laborers, who used to work for my great-grandfathers brother Joseph #Steurenthaler. Meet Marianna Pióro:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pióro-7
I really like, how one can link people on #WikiTree with each other, regardless of their relationship. That's a big advantage in comparison to the collaborative trees on #FamilySearch and #Geni
#Ahnenforschung / #Genealogy help needed:
Does this #Steurenthaler #wedding picture show an 1885 or a 1927 wedding in Germany?
Ist das eine Hochzeit von 1885 oder von 1927?
- #Gelbi only hit my shirt and not my freshly showered head
- Paul #Steurenthaler has an improved #WikiTree profile at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-120
- my wife was nice to me the whole weekend, although I was very devastated and upset about having to go to work in presence for the next four days (without any benefit or purpose and yes, I know it's a luxury problem, I'm sorry, shout-out to all those people doing jobs that really can't be done from home - you rock!)
#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings
Belated #3GoodThings
- made huge progress on the #WikiTree profile of August #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-150 and also dropped his name at the #Stadtwiki #Karlsruhe
- coded to make @apotheken post less often than once per hour (when trying to put it into operation, I discovered that @mastofeed meanwhile natively supports longer cycles 😂)
- understood a bit about the inner workings of the WikiTree Browser Extension (even though, I shelved my changes)
#ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy
Work was a downer, but:
- found a new mystery while setting up the page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Steurenthaler_in_Newspapers for the #Steurenthaler #OneNameStudy
- managed to help out @magnusmanske with something I picked up at @wikidata working on and with the Wikidata Places feature in #WikiTreeBEE
- my #Mastodon bot accounts keep posting and are also starting to have interactions
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
- presence day at work came with a pretty ok lunch
- managed to write a passage about my ancestor Johann #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-10 and bis neighbors getting sued for flooding his neighbor's meadow as result of their improved dam (as opposed to his dad, who had been sued for not letting enough water run through it 27 years before)
- my car now has summer tires again
I originally thought, he was from #Rippoldsau and she told me about the nice people from there, she had met on a bus trip to Norway some years ago. They also visited her afterwards and called for her birthday. But Josef #Steurenthaler from "Ripertsau" was in fact from Ruprechtsau aka Robertsau in #Strasbourg/#Straßburg, where I found him in newly indexed #FamilySearch records some weeks ago when revisiting the topic. A presentation at #Genealogica2025 had mentioned the area. #genealogy
In today's #grandma recording, I told her about Josef #Steurenthaler from the #Gummersbach area and how I can't connect him to her and her father's Steurenthaler family. What a coincidence, that I found his origin some weeks ago and created his profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-184 during this weekend's #April2025ConnectAThon. I also created profiles for 26 descendants and their spouses, which had received from another researcher back then in 2019.
#WikiTree #Genealogy
@eneh War mein Ernst, nutze das für meine #Steurenthaler und #Meszecsov, da klappt das super!
Today's #grandma recording mentioned Albert #Steurenthaler, who used to pick on grandma's aunt, for only having one child. "If that one dies, you won't have anyone", he said, bragging with his six (or five?) children. Then #WorldWarII came and five of his children died. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-82 #genealogy
Forgot #3GoodThings, maybe I can find some now?
- managed to improve the #WikiTree profile of Creszentia #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-32 ; she now also has a first husband, who died a few months after marriage. Looks like I created his father during #July2022ConnectAThon
- post lunch meeting got cancelled, so I had the chance for a walk with my imaginary dog at noon in the sun
- I had milk rice left for snacking in the afternoon (and there's still some left)
#ThreeGoodThings #genealogy
Yesterday, I called a town hall because of a story about a pub/inn #grandma had told me. I was looking for a place that was owned by a #Steurenthaler family. The woman told me about privacy rights, but I said I'm only looking for a local history buff. She gave me a number. He knew all inns and their history, but no hit. Still was a pleasant talk. I also managed to do some emails in the morning and some paperwork in the evening (leftovers from weekend).
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy
Today's #grandma recording told the story of a woman, who came from the #Hamburg area to Black Forest during the war (maybe to #Heuweiler). There she married somebody named #Steurenthaler, which also was grandma's maiden name. The man, who used to be grandma's foster kid, introduced the two women to each other. She was a waitress in Hamburg back then. Maybe she is identical to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-11, of whom I so far only know a death date and a short clip on YouTube.
#genealogy
- had some good moments with #Gelbi
- managed to do most of the mandatory things
- found an employee of my relative Conrad #Steurenthaler, while searching for military records of the family on #fold3
#genealogy #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
Still in March 2019, #grandma talked about how her father Ludwig #Steurenthaler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-2 learned to be a charcoal burner and later a sawyer in the sawmill of his brother. There used to be a former charcoal burning site (kiln) in the neighborhood, where her mother used to go and fill a sack of #flower soil, after removing the grass layer. She also talked about some relatives in a neighboring village, which I still didn't manage to figure out or connect. #genealogy
While registering the #Steurenthaler entries from the German War Graves Commission (#Volksbund) website, I found the entry of an Ernst Steurenthaler, which I managed to identify as referring to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-100 . So far, I only knew his name from the war memorial in #Oberried, where him and his four brothers are mentioned, who all lost their lives during #WW2. Now I had a birthday and I could dare to call the town-hall of the village ... [1/2]
#WikiTree #Genealogy
in one of today's #grandma recordings, which was the last one of February 2019, she suggested that we visit Gotthardhof in #Staufen together, from where - according to family lore - one could see 12 or 15 church towers. Unfortunately, the pandemic, but also my priorities prevented this, until it was too late. At least she was there with my mum before already. Her great-great grandfather Johann #Steurenthaler had bought the property and his widow later sold it. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Gotthardhof
#genealogy
The #grandma recording today told how her father Ludwig #Steurenthaler and her uncle Paul #Wehrle took care that Ludwig's four siblings, who were single and never did an apprenticeship, were given the former mill building of their parents' house to live there. Ludwig worked a whole winter in there, to turn the house, that had been uninhabited for a long time, into a place, they could actually live in. #genealogy
