Are you descended from German glassblowers?

Drawing after engraving on Nøstetang glass from 1771. Here you can see how the German glassblowers worked inside the glass huts. Photo: unknown

If you come from families such as Gundelach, Wendt, Filion, Bruun, Ledel, Landgraff or Jackwitz, you may have German glassblowers as some of your ancestors. On October 5, Liv Marit Haakenstad will give a lecture on the German glassblowers in Norway, at the premises of the Norwegian Genealogical Society.

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