Memoirs: General Statement

I have to thank many persons for their encouragement, in my 79th year of life, for me to buy and use the computer and its’ Word program to begin to write, what I call, my Memoirs. I have two persons at the top of this list. Anthony Edward Gnadinger Tony Gnadinger traveled many times between … Continue reading →

Wahlwies, Baden, Germany, 1757

Gnädinger

  adj (barmherzig) merciful; (herablassend) gracious; (strafe) lenient; (freundlich) kind.* When searching old records and documents for your surname, the suggested approach is to list every possible spelling and misspelling that you can think of; mispronounce it in every way that you can think of and spell it according to the mispronunciations. Then mispronounce the … Continue reading →