Looking back in time

Hello I am Rasmus Bach Fuursted. There clothes was beautifull, and the hair was ugly. My mom & dad have t.v there says is was so coll in that time. Theres cars was not so big so there was some problems. In theirs school shall we get up whole the time.

Looking back in time

Hello I am Martin Bo Andersen. There clothes was beautifull, and the hair was ugly. My mom & dad have t.v there says is was so coll in that time. Theres cars was not so big so there was some problems. In theirs school shall we get up whole the time.

Kirsten Harlung. When she was five years old, she had a little two-wheeled bike. Someone carried her bike up on a roof, then she drove down the roof and hit her head on the tiles. When they (her and her brother) went out to buy clothes, she wanted to buy with my grandfather, because when they were out buying clothes with my grandmother, they wasn’t allowed to decide for themselves.

The confirmation

Her confirmation dress was a long white dress, with elbow-long sleeves, a ribbon to tie around her stomach and a pair of high-heeled shoes. Her second-day-clothes was a roll collar blouse, a checked jacket, black trousers and a pair of cowboy-like shoes.

My dad

My mom met my dad, because they had some common friends. One of the friends invited both my mom and dad, and that’s how my mom and dad met.

Inge

First they got my big sister Inge. She is named after af goddess in the northern mythology. Inge is 14, her birthday is on the 17/3, then she’s 15.

Siff

Siff is my little sister, she’s 9 years and her birthday is on the 4/8. She is also named after a goddess.

LOVE FRIGG
P.S: I am also named after a goddess.

Hi, I want to tell about my grandfather. My grandfather’s name is Arne Pedersen and he is 75, lives in Bjerringbro and is married to Helene Marie Pedersen, who is 73 years old. My grandfather have three children. The oldest’s name is Kjeld Pedersen and he’s 50 years old. The one in the middle is named Dorthe Pedersen and she’s 46. The youngest’s is my dad, Karsten and he’s 43. My grandfather have been working with electricity for about 44 years. He have also worked with wood in Sweden in about 15 years. My grandfather and grandmother like to play croquet. They bowl once amonth.

Morten Pedersen

Grandmother.

My grandmother was born the 2/12 1941 in Aarhus. her dad died already when she was 2 years old. My grandmother’s mother’s name was Helga. I don’t really know what her father’s name was. They got 5 children, Hans, Ester, Ellen, Jørgen, and then my grandmother Lillian.

My grandmother lived as a child in Aarhus in a big house with a lot of apartments. The apartment wasn’t so big, but big enough for them. They didn’t earn so much money, so everybody had to help at home. They got 5 oere in pocket money a week, which would be about 0,7 cent today. Beside that they helped at home, they also went to school and played with they’re friends.

An ordinary day: First they got up in the morning and ate a little breakfast. Then her mother went to work as a cleaning woman in a bakery. When she was gone, the daily work began. They switched duties, every week. If they finished quickly, they could run down to a friend, but they were not allowed to go more than two blocks away. They go to school 12 o’clock and come home at 4 o’clock AM. If they had gotten permission, they could go with friend home till 6 o’clock AM, because then they’re mom would be home. They went to bed at 8 o’clock AM.

My grandmother’s confirmation was on the 26/4 1955. In 1959 she get married to my grandfather, Jens. But today they are divorced. In 1960 she got her first child, who is my mother. Later she got my two uncles, Henning and Per. Today my grandmother is 57 years old and works as a nursing aide in Caritas in Skejby.

I wan’t to tell my grandmother and grandfather. My grandmother’s name is Kirsten Bilde Hansen, and my grandfather is named Jørgen Bilde Hansen. My grandmother is 67 and my grandfather is 63. My grandmother and grandfather have three children, my dad and my two aunts Helle and Hanne. My grandmother and grandfather have a farm with a lot of animals: Cows, horses, pigs, cats, hens, ducks, fish, gooses, a dog, roe deers, foxes, turkeys, pheasants and peacocks. They have a big nature reserve with fields and forests. It’s a lovely place to be, and they are very, very, very kind. One day when I was over there, a pony that was called Molly gave birth to a foal, that we called Ugespring. Me and my grandmother had gone in to the stable to talk with the foal, But suddenly it got shy and wouldn’t talk. It hid itself behind Molly and from that day on it was always shy.

Morten

My great-great-grandfather Jens Nielsen Kirk. My great-great-grandfather was born the 8/8 1836 and died 1909. He lived of making shoes, cos’ he was a shoemaker. He got in 1857 to Jensine. A day from my father diary: The 1. April 1866. Easter Day 9 o'clock took he and he family to curch and took the day off. He always worked late, but in return he often helped his friends and the other way around. They lived a very primitive life and didn’t have a lot of money. Jensine was housewife, who took care of the children and thehouse.

Mette Soendergaard

My grandmother.

My grandmother’s name is Annelise, she’s 74 and born 1925. You went in school in the afternoon, in the first classes, when she was a child, and back then there wasn’t anyting called preschool class. She lived with her parents and sisters in Frederikshavn. Her mother’s name was Trine, her father’s name was Herman, and her two sister’s names were Karen and Stine. Karen were her big sister, and Stine was her little sister. When she moved away from home, she came in a cutterschool in Magsin in Gråsten, Where she learned to sew clothes and other things. She also patched some of Queen Ingrids dresses. Later she got married to my grandfather Johannes who is dead now, because of some disease. They got 4 childreen, Annette, Johnny min far, Lone and Ivan, Johannes’ child from a earlier marriage. After they were married, my grandmother becomed a nurse in 1960, and my grandfather was a hairdresser and a master builder.

Malene 5.b

Hello, i’am Rasmus Bach Fuursted. I wil tell you about my granddad. My granddads name was Holger and my grandmoms name was Erna. There got three kids my dad my dads litlle sister and my dads bigbrother. There is to peaple there gat seven childrens and when the kids got childrens and such that have it always been

My great-grandfather’s life!!!!I want to tell about my great-grandfather’s life. My great-grandfather’s name was Franz Henrichsen. He was born the 23/7 1897 in Slyngsten/Felsted on a farm. My great-grandfather’s dad died when he was 13 years old. He takes a medical exam on the university in Kiel. In Kiel he meets great-grandmother. They marry each other the 26/12 1926. One year Great-grandfather lives in Copehagen, where he takes the doctor degree. Then he can works in Denmark. They move to Als and then to a new house in Lysabild. He get’s a family, a wife, two boys, two girls og a car. In 1955 my great-grandfather get’s infantile paralysis. This happens after that he have vaccinated a lot of other chhildren against this disease. He keeps on working till he’s 70 yaers old, even though he have infantile paralysis in the lower part of the body.He likes to read and travel. He dies the 9/7 1975. He have had a long and exiting life!!!!

See you Rune Etzerodt!!!!!

What a lovely story, Rune.

I thought I'd just explain a couple of things for our friends who aren't in Europe and might not know. Kiel is in Germany and Copenhagen is in Denmark. In the old days if you studied to be a doctor in one country you had to take another exam if you wanted to work in another country. Nowadays we don't have to do that in Europe any more;)

Another word for "infantile paralysis" is polio. This used to be a very serious disease which attacked the muscles in your legs and made it hard for you to walk. Thanks to people like Rune's great-grandfather we are all vaccinated against it these days;)

best wishes,
Liz Exton
(KIDLINK helper)

My grandmother Gudrun Gorking

My grandmother’s name is Gudrun Gorking. She lives in Viby in a little white house. She lives alone, because my grandfather died 1-2 years ago. My grandmother have been a cleaning lady and after that a child-minder. She was born on Samsoe in 1936. Her dad had a farm. She had to help on the farm, when she came home from school.

My grandmother have 5 children: Hanne, my mom, Hanne is oldest, then my mom, Gitte, Bjarne and Lisa. They all have children now, so my grandmother have a lot of grandchildren. My grandmother have a garden and she looks afteer it almost every day. She also have goldfish, that she looks after every day. She used to have a lot more but they died and then she got some new ones.

Martina

Hi, my name is Rasmus Bach Fuursted. I want to tell about my grandfather. My grandfather’s name was Holger and my grandmother’s name was Erna. They got three children, my dad (Gert), my dad’s big brother (Ole) and my dad’s little sister (Gitte).

There are two in the family (my great-grandfather and great-grandmother) who have managed to get 7 children, then they got children and the children got children etc. There has been borned 40-50 people with my dad’s family and my self. They have always lived in Aarhus. When I was born, I lived in Aarhus, two years later, my mom, dad, big brother and me.

I don’t know anything about my grandfather and grandmother’s wedding, but it ended happily. Now I will try to invent a little story. I think, that at a ball, my grandfather (Holger) saw a lovely lady in the bar (yehaa) and said: “What are you doin’ after this?” and she says: “Nothing.” -Why don’t you come to my house?-OK. And then they had a little fun!!!! And some years later they got married. But already about 20 years later my grandfather gets a blood clot. The doctors got it away without problems. But a couple of years later he gets another one. Again the doctors gets it away, without problems. But again he gets a blood clot, and this time the doctors can’t get it away, so hedies. Rasmus

My grandmother, Edith is 69 years old. She is born in 1929 on Fyn in Korinth. My grandmother comes out of a family of 5 as the only girl. When she was a little girl and went to school, she wore wooden shoes and pinafore. When the war came to Denmark she was 18 years. My grandmother have been working as a cleaning woman at a school. She lived in Trige. My grandmother got 7 children. Their house burned when she was 5 years old. In reference to money, there weren’t a problem, but they were not millionaires.

Once she buyed a box of apples to the children for Christmas. She thought that they should have something special, but my grandfather didn’t think so. Those money were going to pay a bill. She have been living in Saelling since 1985, and then she was alone since 1995, and she still lives there.

Thank you! Thank you!

Those were beautiful stories about your (great-great) grandparents!

Here's a picture of my grandfather when he started work right at the beginning of this century.

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/lizex/kidwai.htm

Thanks again for all those lovely stories ;)

best wishes,
Liz Exton
(KIDLINK helper)