Andreas Zerbst junior
Honor Code SignatorySigned 28 Aug 2018 | 150 contributions | 2 thank-yous | 18 connections
I'm from Germany and explore my family-roots since many years - since a time without computers and WorldWideWeb with some breaks. I started with exploring the fate of my Grandfather because it was laying in darkness - only a few fotos has survived the terrible time of third-reich and WorldWar-II - not him self. Some legends was told about why and how he died in a german concentracion-camp ...
While I explored his fate I found a complete police-folder about him in an archive. And with the expierience of this exploration I tried to explore my family-roots - without to have the chance to ask my Grandparents. And I found the most ancestors and relatives where poor people from Thuringia - many leash-weber. They had change theyer profession in the middle of the 19th century because of the new mechanic-looms in England and looking for a new work in the industry-centers in Germany like f.e. Leipzig in Saxony - where I live.
My profession is a Mathematician and I like to use computers to support my hobbies f.e. Genealogy. I'm using the software GRAMPS to manage and collect my genealogy-datas - and also for family-trees of my wife and my children. If I have no ideas or datas for the family-trees I make a break - most a short break. Or I contact some other family-explorers, exchange datas or help to solve problems of other researchers, scan the WorldWideWeb - Genealogy-Portals and -discusion-forums or scan my source-collection again to find things I have not yet needed or readed.
My oldest ancestor is a Pastor from the 16th century lived in North-Thuringia in Groß(en)werther near the town Nordhausen. And if there no mistake - my most famous relative is the soviet-leader Lenin.
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