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11/07/2014 at 20:56 • Filed to: None
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"Zerofret" (zerofret)
11/07/2014 at 20:56 • Filed to: None | 3
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A couple of years ago, I heard my mother mention ties our family had with Mercedes Benz. Recently, I started going through some genealogy trying to retrace my roots. My mothers side of the family hails from Germany and the Czech Republic. The thought came into my head about the whole Mercedes ties, so I called up my mom and started asking questions. She told me that as a child, her relatives spoke about a man with the last name Jellinek , and how one of my great great aunts had married into that family. As I went several generations down, I found my great, great, or something like that, aunt with the last name, "Jellinek". I did my fair share of googling and found this man:
Emil Jellinek. The man lived quite an interesting life and you can read about it on the ever-so-useful Wikipedia! (because I don't feel like typing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Jell…
Anyways, his daughter !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (who ended up penniless and starving) was the one who the Mercedes side of the company gets its name. Yeah, I realize there are a lot of holes here to me having any sort of relation to the Jellinek family by only going on word of mouth, but I'll keep digging deeper. I'm one step closer to getting myself that SLR!
Well, one can dream.
> Zerofret
11/07/2014 at 21:06 |
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Time to call up Mr. Benz and be like "Sup pops, I am your long lost grand, grand, grand, grand, grand cousin's second nephew's son. Can I have SLR?"
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11/07/2014 at 21:12 |
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