Picturing our ancestors lives.

[jaybelnz]

Super photos Rudolph!  Very special too knowing that your Ancestors actually built them as well.
Lovely!

[Rudolf H B]

Thank you jaybelnz,

they are listed as cultural heritage monuments and I have made the photos for the Wikimedia Loves Monuments competition (no trophy for me    )

[sami]

Great photos Rudolph! I'll bet your 5 x and 4 x great grandfathers would have been delighted to know their buildings would have stood this long, and would be appreciated by a descendant of theirs

sami

[Mowsehowse]

It is my dearest wish to visit all the places in central Europe to which my known ancestors have a connection.  So far I have managed to visit Berlin and Budapest.  To be standing where they had stood stirred up a wealth of emotions.  Aachen and Vienna remain high on my "to see" list.

[jaybelnz]

Yes Mowsehowse, it's certainly a powerful and emotional moment!  My research and then following their footsteps - being in places where they had been married, seeing their homes where they had lived and raised their families and their final resting places, made me feel really connected to those people of mine whom I never knew but whose blood flows deep in my veins, and I truly feel I knew them!

[pinefamily]

I haven't had the opportunity to travel overseas to any ancestral homes (yet). I have visited places around South Australia where more immediate ancestors lived and worked. And I have found photos and pictures on the net of various ancestral houses. The best one was the farm where my paternal ancestors lived in the 16th century; the farmhouse has been updated but the stables and barn date back to that time, and have now been converted into a B&B.

[coombs]

It is great to stand at ancestors graves if they have a headstone in sleepy rural villages. Two of my ancestors John and Sarah Titshall are buried in Bredfield, Suffolk, a rural Suffolk village in the nice quiet churchyard. John was a miller.

[clairec666]

It's always worth visiting your ancestors' resting places... I knew my 5xgreat-grandparents were buried in Assington churchyard in Suffolk, but I wasn't expecting to find a huge gravestone,  the biggest in the churchyard, listing several family members including children I wasn't aware of who had died in infancy.

The size and ornate-ness of the grave made me think that they were wealthier than I'd previously thought.

[Mowsehowse]

It's always worth visiting your ancestors' resting places... I knew my 5xgreat-grandparents were buried in Assington churchyard in Suffolk, but I wasn't expecting to find a huge gravestone,  the biggest in the churchyard, listimg several family members including children I wasn't aware of who had died in infancy.

So true Claire, but to wander the streets knowing that the buildings were there at the same time as your ancestor is a marvellous thing to do.