more about the austrian kin...

ok, so....must get out the genealogy charts to make sure the connections between my sons and the austrian relatives they will visit are clear.....what i do know is that the elderly mother (gertrude) still living is a woman my mother corresponded with as a child, and that my mother and her sister sent clothing to this woman and her sister (elizabeth) along with staple foodstuffs like sugar and flour to her family after the war. We visited the sister in Hanau in 1972 on a family trip to Europe, but did not visit gertrude because we did not go to vienna let alone past it to lassie......my parents did go there sometime in the early 80's at the time my brother was living in germany......the folks we visited in lambsheim would be cousins....and everybody would be related in some fashion to my great-grandfather michael stephan....i figure that the folks who answered the eldest's letter of introduction are my age or a bit older, given that their mother is a bit older than my mother....but i digress......i am pleased that contact has been made, a reply received, and potential plans agreeable on both sides.....