traces of my ancestors

Spring, summer and beyond
Soon the autumn and soon the winter -
Ah, dear mamsell,
Life goes fast.
~Wilhelm Busch (German poet, 1832- 1908)

my grandparents:

Ernst Korn and Anita Busch

Engelbert Erbach and Marie Wissner

my greatgrandparents:

Frithjof Korn and Dora Wetendorf

Johann Jakob Busch and Auguste Dührkop

Jakob Erbach and Anna Geis

Karl Wissner and Wilhelmine Pfeiff

my greatgreatgrandparents:

Richard Robert Max and Auguste Rustenbeck

Heinrich Wetendorf and Anna Catharina Eggers

Carsten Busch and Catharina Meyer

Johannes Markus Friedrich Dührkop and Doris Maria Magdalena Dührkop

Gottfried Erbach and Helene Becker

Karl Geis and Wilhelmine Pistor

Johannes Wissner and Elisabetha Gaul

Heinrich Pfeiff and Katharine Schomber

my 3.greatgrandparents:

Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Korn and Therese Borchardt

Johann Heinrich Erdmann Rustenbeck and Wilhelmine Sophie Elisabeth Bohneberg

my 4.greatgrandparents:

Johann Friedrich Korn and Johanne Marie Reinecke

Anton Borchardt and Marie Biermann

Johann Heinrich Erdmann Rustenbeck and Catherine Elisbeth Achtel

Fortuna smiles; but she likes
only reluctantly to fully please us;
when she gives us a summer day,
she also gives us mosquitoes.
~Wilhelm Busch (German poet, 1832- 1908)