In the beginning there were only questions for May-Britt Thiessen.
From the generation of her grandparents, she had only met the maternal grandfather and the paternal step-grandmother.
“For a long time I asked myself: Where did the people come from?
What was it that made them?
What did you experience? "
She had evidence that parts of her family came from the formerly German areas in Poland, but not much more.
“We live in fast-moving, uprooting times, so the desire to know where I came from was important to me,” she says.
Thiessen wants to know where she comes from.
She has been researching the history of her family for years - with sometimes unexpected results.
People have been asking questions like May-Britt Thiessen's for centuries.
But never before have the chances of researching your own family history been better.