Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Many thanks to Leo and Marge for a delightful evening in their back yard last Sunday. Great food: brats, Schiblig, (provided by the hosts) alpler magrone ( by the master alpler chef) salads by the sister-in-laws and Swiss desserts by Anita and the guests Liz and her mom Elsa Christen. Great conversation: learning about Alfred's connection to Grandpa Scheuber and the many stories he had to tell about being around Grandpa. He grew up knowing the family in Switzerland and seeing Grandpa at many Swiss activities here in America. One special comment was that Grandpa told him " I hope you get to meet my boys someday." He said the last time he saw him was in the 1980's. So this meeting has taken a long time. Grandpa must have been looking down on us and smiling on Sunday evening. Liz says that the relationship genealogy-wise is: her dad is 10th cousin, 2 times removed and she is 11th cousin, 1 time removed. The "10th" means that you share a grandparent 10 generations back. If you look on your Das Scheuber book on page 17 you will see a Christine Scheuber married a Melch Christen. If I have this right our Scheuber clan shares the grandparent Melch Christen. Then you see it goes from Christen to Barmetter and Barmettler back to Scheuber again. Interesting!!! Thanks to Geoff for making the Scheuber site so that Liz could find us. Thanks to Liz for making the connection and thanks to Liz and her husband Rod for bringing her parents to meet all of us. marge |
