Lisa
Small-leaved Shamrock
A light that shines again
100 Years in America

I didn’t think you stole the idea! I even chose your post as one of my “Donna’s Picks” for last week! Besides, I sure didn’t invent the phrase “if these walls could talk” and your post was focused on the church while mine talked about houses. There really aren’t any “new” ideas when it comes to genealogy anyway, are there?

Donna

I read and enjoyed your post about the häuserchronik. A couple days later I wrote my post entitled http://100inamerica.blogspot.com/2008/02/if-only-church-could-tell-stories.html.

This may seem a ridiculous thought, but I never once made the realization that I might have “stolen” your idea about the walls of our historic buildings telling stories – until just now!

I’m sorry if my post may have borrowed your idea without you permission. The thought of those häuserchronik walls telling stories so struck me that I thought about it so often over the course of a day or so. It eventually became one of those ideas whose origin I had forgotten!

I believe that Sam Seaborn once stated: “Good writers borrow from other writers, great writers steal from them outright.”

Please accept my apologies for “outright stealing” your idea. (And it was a very good one!) I will write a note on my post to attribute it to you as soon as finish sending you my comment of apology!

Lisa
Small-leaved Shamrock
A light that shines again
100 Years in America

Reading about your German ancestors is always enjoyable for me. I have a much-neglected background in German (not fluent, but familiar). I would enjoy trying to decifer some German records along with you.

Thanks for sharing about your shoemaker and his family.