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You are so lucky. I wish people would stop rebuilding everything, it just messes things up.

@rebelann I agree, in most European cities the old houses cannot be demolished, they must be refurbished without changing the style.

That makes perfect sense @LadyDuck I wonder how long it will take for us to learn that.

I can understand your sentiment. I never got to actually see the original homes of either of my parents or grandparents so I have nothing to which to compare what might be there now. Thank you, I took it a few years ago on a very hot day.

@rebelann Yes, I am lucky that I don't live too far from where they grew up. Just over the county line from each other.

At least you can imagine how it was for your parents, I live too far away from where my folks grew up and I know that they moved a few times when they were young as well.

@rebelann maybe but I'll have to hop on an airplane ;)

That could turn out to be fun @infatuatedbby

At least they still exist. Do you suppose you might want to visit those one day?

That is wonderful. Do they tell you stories about how it was when they were young?

@rebelann yes my mother says a lot...

Wow, you got to go to Ireland? I'd always wanted to see places like Ireland, Scotland and Whales .... oh well, at least I got to see Germany, right?

I was between ages 6 to 9 @TiarasOceanView what I remember was having a blast riding on the train, I got to see a lot of livestock as the train drove by and I got into trouble because I didn't obey the rules. I'd love to go back to see it from an adult point of view.

@rebelann Yes Germany is so beautiful Rebel.

That's a bummer. I hope you at least have fond memories.

@rebelann I can picture the place very well.

Wow, you're so lucky @Asylum

@rebelann both houses where my parents lived are still owned by their respective families.

That is so kool @allen0187

You're lucky, I've never lived close to any of my grandparents and have never even seen the homes my parents grew up in.

Some of them are really interesting.

@rebelann yes they are

Well at least you have wonderful memories of your roots.

I hope you visit your cousin once in a while.

Thank you. Yeah, same here. Both my parents were moved around a few times when they were growing up, I guess because of the depression, times were very hard back then.

@rebelann Yes, indeed. My parents moved several times, too. Why? I really don't know.

I wish it were more like it was back in the 1800s when people kept their childhood homes. Times really have changed.

Yes, unfortunately @RubyHawk

@rebelann I would love that but those days have mostly passed away.

I haven't met anyone who knew my parents as children other than aunts or uncles or grandparents but I was so young when I met them that I didn't know to ask anything about them. All connections with cousins have been lost so I don't even have those kinds of ties.

Oh yes, I know how that feels @Hannihar I've tried to find cousins I know I have but nothing I did helped, either they are not online or else records were not properly kept, I know that as far as my great grand parents are concerned all that information was lost when the County Court house in that region burned down in 1925.

@rebelann rebelann, very frustrating isn't it. I remember how excited I was when I first moved here. I went back to bring things here and asked a cousin if we had relatives here and we happened to have. I contacted them but could not speak to them at the time in Hebrew and now can do not know what happened to them. So, it is just my cat and myself. I guess records can be gone when there is a fire. That is a shame. Have you tried the geneogology sites. I can't remember because I do not use them anymore. I only went into the Jewish ones. I may have some family from Russia that may be in the country for all I know and will never find them and I do not speak Russian. My parents spoke Yiddish which is what the Jews spoke in Europe and also there are Jews that speak it here. My grandfather or father never spoke Russian.