Afternoon fiddlerslass. Just a quick update to tell you that we went to Ivanovice last week. A tiny town a quick train ride from Vienna via Bruno. I hadn't really done any huge further research but it was moving for my husband to be in his grandfather's birth town. House 21 is gone and replaced by a car park but, we got a feeling of what the houses must have looked like by examining older premises on the same road. The graveyard really is a sad site but again an emotional time. The vegetation is so high and land boggy so we didn't go too far in to the stones. While in Vienna we went to the church where Ludwig (Israel) was married and were treated to an amazing service conducted in English for a packed Negro community. Wonderful uplifting drumming and singing. The church is beautiful. We have a lot of research and work to do and it will give us excuses to return to Ivanovice and Bruno.
