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10-02-2011, 12:16 PM
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Anyone Read German?
I have been packing up for my move and in the process found something that I forgot I had. It was found by my mother in an old house when she was a teenager. I have no idea what it is and running the text through google translate didn't help much. It is solid silver. Just noticed I should have proof read the thread title.
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10-02-2011, 12:23 PM
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I have been packing up for my move and in the process found something that I forgot I had. It was found by my mother in an old house when she was a teenager. I have no idea what it is and running the text through google translate didn't help much. It is solid silver. Just noticed I should have proof read the thread title.
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I don't read German, but I fixed the title... that I can do. 
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10-02-2011, 12:27 PM
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From meager memory, something about 25 yr anniversary or memory. Of whomever Karl Graf was.
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10-02-2011, 01:21 PM
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10-02-2011, 02:03 PM
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Thank you! Now I wish I knew how it wound up in Cavalier ND. No pigeon racers around here that I've ever heard of.
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10-02-2011, 05:04 PM
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Thank you! Now I wish I knew how it wound up in Cavalier ND. No pigeon racers around here that I've ever heard of.
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Cant figure out out the label on mag cover fully, but the last three words "fur aktion mench" means "for action men" It is same meaning in yiddish
Fliegen roughly= flying, or flown
Rusty brain cells creaking loudly in my head.
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10-02-2011, 05:41 PM
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10-02-2011, 07:41 PM
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Thank you! Now I wish I knew how it wound up in Cavalier ND. No pigeon racers around here that I've ever heard of.
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But lots of ancestral Germans! I was once driving through South Dakota to visit where an ethnic German ancestor lived, and saw a billboard for a Coffee Kuchen festival (there should be an umlaut but I don't know how to make one with this keyboard).
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10-02-2011, 08:07 PM
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But lots of ancestral Germans! I was once driving through South Dakota to visit where an ethnic German ancestor lived, and saw a billboard for a Coffee Kuchen festival (there should be an umlaut but I don't know how to make one with this keyboard).
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My ancestry is 100% German for as far back as I can trace. This area is a little unusual in that there are lots of Norwegians, Scots, and Icelanders along with the Germans.
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10-02-2011, 09:41 PM
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... Coffee Kuchen festival (there should be an umlaut but I don't know how to make one with this keyboard).
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Here's kuchen with umlaut u: küchen. I don't know how to just type out exotic characters on my keyboard, either, but here is an on-screen keyboard one can use to get the characters on screen, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Chart Unicode ?Keyboard? , and then you can copy-paste the transcription to where you want it. It's a little cumbersome.
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