About me

I was born Brigitte Vaders, and it is only by marriage in 1970 to Uwe Finkbeiner that I became a member of the clan. Uwe is Guenter's brother - no wonder, then, that I got involved in the preparations for the trip to the Second International Finkbeiner Reunion at Crediton, Ontario, in October 1997. Günter asked me to help out with the language, to translate messages from German into English and vice versa. I know English quite well, have read and spoken it since high school, spent a year at Vassar College, New York. as a young student, taught it at university and by and by took a doctorate in American literature. However, I had not been back to North America, because I preferred to accompany my husband to "his" part of the world as an archeologist of the Near East.

Topic Finkbeiner

I am mainly interested in the emigration part of the Finkbeiner history and follow what is brought to light by the family historians. I should be glad to be of assistance with translations again. Here is my address: Brigitte Finkbeiner
66 Rue Prinzipale
F-67510 Obersteinbach