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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5623528, member: 110350"]That sort of continuity wasn't really so uncommon in Europe. My maternal grandmother was born in a house in a village in the Black Forest where her family had lived since 1815, and continued to live until October 22, 1940. (I've written before what happened on that day.) The house was built in the 1560s, approximately 460 years ago. The house in the same village where my family lived from August 1724 (when my 6th great-grandfather bought half of the house) until 1815, is across the street and down a couple of blocks; relatives continued to live in that house until 1940. In fact, everyone in the village with my grandmother's family surname in the 20th century was descended from one of the three sons of my 5th great-grandfather.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a photo of the house taken ca. 1910; that's my great-grandfather standing in one of the upstairs windows:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1242197[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here's a photo of the same house I took in 2018:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1242198[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: and a photo of my mother, age 15 months, with her Aunt Martha (who perished in 1942), next to the same house in July 1924. She grew up in Berlin, but spent many of her summers at that house with her grandparents.</p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1242201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5623528, member: 110350"]That sort of continuity wasn't really so uncommon in Europe. My maternal grandmother was born in a house in a village in the Black Forest where her family had lived since 1815, and continued to live until October 22, 1940. (I've written before what happened on that day.) The house was built in the 1560s, approximately 460 years ago. The house in the same village where my family lived from August 1724 (when my 6th great-grandfather bought half of the house) until 1815, is across the street and down a couple of blocks; relatives continued to live in that house until 1940. In fact, everyone in the village with my grandmother's family surname in the 20th century was descended from one of the three sons of my 5th great-grandfather. Here's a photo of the house taken ca. 1910; that's my great-grandfather standing in one of the upstairs windows: [ATTACH=full]1242197[/ATTACH] And here's a photo of the same house I took in 2018: [ATTACH=full]1242198[/ATTACH] Edited to add: and a photo of my mother, age 15 months, with her Aunt Martha (who perished in 1942), next to the same house in July 1924. She grew up in Berlin, but spent many of her summers at that house with her grandparents. [ATTACH=full]1242201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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