Discovered that there is another researcher on Ancestry.com who is researching the Bergmann family. They downloaded some photos and documents relating to Aunt Marion and Uncle Herb. We’ve offered to share more photos and have accessed some of their data helping us to learn more about Uncle Herb’s family. Perhaps we will be able to identify all of the people in this photo! Yesterday and today have been spent mostly at home working on sorting genealogy papers and genealogy research. It’s a good thing we both really enjoy that stuff. We have taken off some time to make homemade soup, try a new recipe from Mediterranean Fresh and to enjoy the company of a neighbor from “up the cove” as well as to go walking in this absolutely beautiful weather.
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
I have a friend at work who is a Bergmann. I wonder if she is related.
Find out if she wants to find out. We haven’t updated the Thole genealogy yet but we can do it soon if needed.