Visiting Devon's Ancestral Homeland: Blessing or Total Bust? 

Your ancestors saw the church being built so they saw scaffolding too! I😁

Good way to understand the environment and impact on ancesters. I found many people in those towns loved to talk about what made their town special. Glad that you got to see the area the the fami;y lived in.

A trip is what you make of it. Unfortunate that the church was closed, but you were able to see the town and cemetery, and enjoyed that.

Hilarious race! You guys take "good sports" to new heights! Well done!

🤣🤣😂🤣😂 Bless you both, Finland was a scream! But my hat off to you both for doing it.

Don't be so hard on yourself about that physical competition. You did it, you completed it, didn't quit. Well done for doing that.

In May, I visited my ancestral hometown in Bavaria Germany. It was a small village that went back to the 900's. It was humbling to walk the streets where my ancestors walked centuries ago. The village cemetery had flowerbeds with the headstones too. I thought it was beautiful. So that must be a German thing to do with graves. I met a few distant cousins. It was a dream come true trip for me. If you have ancestors that were Catholic at one time. Matricula online is the catholic diocese archives website . Hildesheim Diocese has 2 villages that is near Gillersheim that have catholic churches. One in Lindau and one in Gieboldehausen. They may have records of your ancestors. I use Google translate to read the Latin. Remember people in Germany were Catholic before Martin Luther began the Protestant reformation. If no ancestors were Catholic, maybe this website will help someone else. Also, do you know that Norway has a wife carrying contest too. Maybe next time you can do wife carrying in Norway?! Great video and anytime you can go to an ancestral hometown it is a Blessing!!

Next time you are around Düsseldorf/Essen/Cologne, write me a line. There is a lot more to see here and I will be very glad to guide you around (guiding is my hobby). I'm glad you had a beautiful time in Europe! 😀❤

Fantastic Race you guys😂! you finished it 😅

Galway is pronounced Gaulway. Last yr mom drove us down to Cork where my paternal ancestors are buried. We stayed in Carrigaline where my mom's uncle lived. It was a good experience apart from mom not being so well so I was rushing to take photos of the gravestones

I have just traveled to France (currently here) and went to the listed burial of my relatives...turns out they moved the remains and someone else bought up the plots. There was no further details of where my relatives remains are.I wouldn't call it a "bust" because this was the sae plots they were once buried...It certainly would have been better to see the current burial though.

I knew I once heard about Gillersheim. - It has prehistoric gravemounds, though I didn't know where to put it. - EDIT: I just realized I not only heard about it. I was there on a prehistoric excursion some 30 years ago. O.O It helps to switch the language-bar to the country-language if you do research on your ancestor's birthplaces, and use a translator afterwards. The information you find suddenly triples.

Oh no. You were in my city - Essen (the city where I work to be exact) and we haven't met 😭

Kind of a strange thing but I have found watching "QVC in Italia" to be very good immersion in the language. They are mostly common everyday words so it's something easy to identify with. So maybe there are similar online channels in other languages?

And you probably landed in the city, where I live just 1 mile from the airport - Düsseldorf 😭

So is that plaque commemorating a death on 26 December? Just curious. That's what I'm reading in the Latin at the bottom.

You where both very brave in Competing in wife carrying in Sweden. Next time you go to Europe you have to visit Sweden more than just Malmö ! Otherwhise we your swedish fans will feel neglected ! ;)

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Interesting but the music and it being so long in the beg was awful to listen to and get thru. I rather hear you both talk.