23. Anna Wiens - Our Maternal Grandmother

The Wiens Family History Booklet - The Source for the Records on the Wiens Family

In 2009 I was helping my Aunt Anne move from her apartment to an assisted living home.  At that time she gave me two small suitcases that contained some of her treasures.  Most of the items were her keepsakes from her many years of missionary work in Japan.  But among these items was a small booklet of 10 pages written in old German script.  I had these pages translated by the helpful people at the BC Mennonite Historical Society and discovered that they were hand written by Anna's Father and Mother.  The records below are from those writing so they should be accurate.  Without this booklet we would have very little information about the Wiens side of the family.  Records in the booklet have details about the minute, hour, day, and date of births and deaths and I have written out the details exactly as they are in the booklet.

Sample page from the booklet.

There are 10 pages of this type of notes which I scanned and enlarged to make them more readable.