August 2002

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;  Oranienburg, just north of Berlin
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, 1698 Francke starts his Orphanage in Halle
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; since nobody else was there I made a speech to Carla
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; original of Samuel Urlsperger's Emigrants
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; living near Berlin was fun too
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; trust Dutch to take their bikes to do sight seeing
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; one of the many castles of the German Emperial family
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; letter from Halle (Francke) to Bolzius and Gronau in Ebenezer, GA

 Our trip from Holland to Halle in (East) Germany

From Halle we went to Marburg (300 km to the west) to do research in the archives of this University, where more background on HUG's past was expected.

Marburg is about where the D for Deutschland (Germany) stands on the map left.
Walking the footsteps of old Hans Ulrich Giessendanner was great fun and brought some new developments into the research and with the help of you and others will continue as time passes.
Gradually his story is discovered and will lead to more insight on his life, the reasons for his behavior and leadership on and after the voyage to SC. Lots of documents still need to be examined and/or translated.

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