Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Cousins

We spent some days in Falster with Eric and Helga, having dinner one night with some of their 13 grandchildren. We went to Copenhagen to visit Bodil, Eric's sister, and then another set of children and grandchildren. All cousins of one degree or another.








Besides catching up on the lives of family members, both in the US and Denmark, we had passed a post box in the little town of Nybor, an artist community on Mon, a neighboring island. On the post box appeared to my great surprise, my surname. Not all that common in either of our countries.


That evening Helga found that Werge's email address and we wrote and now are in contact. He represents part of our family who migrated to Denmark around the same time that my great grandfather was leaving for America. So we are, though somewhat removed, also cousins.

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Location:On the train from Hamburg to Prague