Keeping Your Eye on GRANDMA

Bob Walde keeps his family history right up front when he's around other Mennonites.  Doing so, he learned that GRANDMA isn't always accurate (nor are her sources).  As he shows, there is something we can do about it if we keep our wits about us.

"Oh, I got quite a laugh the other day, went up and slaughtered a buffalo at Lester Thiessen's farm, for fun I printed his genealogy from GRANDMA 5 but there was not any history on his wife, Ruth Penner. While we were outside she phoned her parents in Alabama and got a few names and dates for me, started looking for her but found Ralph Aeleh Penner #624616 with the same birthdate as hers but not her so called her to see if she was a twin, she laughed and said that mistake was from an old PENNER book and she always got teased about being Ralph in school.

"... sent the info to Kevin Enns-Rempel he also had a chuckle."

Kevin Enns-Rempel, if you don't all know, is the point person in California where GRANDMA corrections should go.  Check the your GRANDMA manual and you'll find instructions on how to update the GRANDMA database on p. 10.

In kinship,
Judii