Post #2352928

2026-04-17 18:46 UTC

(3/x) Later, I realised: The child was born in November 1944, so the parents must have met in early 1944. Not a great time for a US soldier to casually walk into a photo studio in the middle of Wiesbaden* with his German girlfriend! But even if the pictures really were taken *after* war (which I now am almost certain of - what do you think?) and this man is not his father, it would be great to find clarity about the photographs and the name "Edward". *: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/50.0726/8.2484

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@azett@mastodon.online 2026-04-17 18:57

(4/x) My father-in-law spent basically his whole life searching for his roots. (His early-childhood odyssee including being evacuated from war-struck Berlin as a two-weeks-old not even mentioned; this alone could, and propably will, fill a whole book). So now here I am, basically without any genealogy experience, trying to give an old man some kind of peace. All we have is this set of pictures with the name "Edward J. Garth" on it.

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@eniatitova@sfba.social 2026-04-17 19:17

@azett@mastodon.online this birth date is perplexing: if he’s born in November, he was conceived in Feb 1944. D-Day (when US forces land in Europe) is June 1944. How sure are we this was his father as opposed to a man who later came into his mother’s life? Was he given up for adoption at birth or later?

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