点评:It was a trip on my bucket list, for sure. My sister and I took an adventure into the country of Romania where our paternal grandparents were born and raised before they immigrated to the US. And we found the perfect person to guide us on this tour. Alexandra planned our seven (7) days with great thought and consideration. She helped us get a real feel for the lives our ancestors lived by visiting their villages, the churches where they were baptized and married, and the cemeteries where headstones were carved with familiar names. (Alexandra is so good at finding genealogy information and remembering it....I think she knows more about my ancestors than I do.)
We even visited Corvin Castle, a Swabian History Museum, the charming city of Sibiu, Charlottenburg - the only Circular village in Romania, and took a private boat ride on the beautiful Danube River. Alexandra drove us to places we would never have seen if we had attempted this on our own. She came to our rescue many times in restaurants, stores and markets by translating for "2 old ladies" who knew no Romania. And she did all this with humor and patience and a smile.
I am still hoping to find out if there is any more information about my grandfather and his family (none of us, including my father, ever knew him....long story!) so I am enlisting Alexandra to continue helping me on the rest of this genealogical adventure. We were very fortunate to have found her!!
翻译:这绝对是我人生清单上的一次旅行。我和姐姐去了罗马尼亚探险,我们的祖父母移民美国之前就出生并长大于此。我们找到了一位完美的导游。亚历山德拉精心策划了我们七天的行程。她带我们参观了祖先的村庄、他们受洗和结婚的教堂,以及刻有他们熟悉名字的墓碑的墓地,让我们真切地感受到了祖先的生活。(亚历山德拉非常擅长查找家谱信息并记住它们……我觉得她比我还了解我的祖先。)
我们还参观了科尔文城堡、施瓦本历史博物馆、迷人的锡比乌市、罗马尼亚唯一的圆形村庄夏洛滕堡,并在美丽的多瑙河上乘坐了私人游船。亚历山德拉开车带我们去了一些我们自己去绝对不会看到的地方。她多次在餐馆、商店和市场里为“两位不懂罗马尼亚语的老太太”做翻译,帮了我们不少忙。她总是幽默、耐心,脸上总是挂着笑容。
我仍然希望找到更多关于我祖父和他家人的信息(我们当中,包括我父亲,都不认识他……说来话长!),所以我请亚历山德拉继续帮我完成接下来的家谱探险。我们非常幸运能找到她!