There is a placard in Mseno, Czech Republic, to honor Augustine Hermann, my ninth great-grandfather. We are related through my paternal grandmother, Ethel Keith. This information was provided by the fine research of my cousin, from that side of the family, Rebecca Orahood. Hermann was born on 12/10/1605 or 1610 and passed 9/10/1686 in Cecil Co, Maryland. Hermann’s remarkable contribution, as a new American, was to map the Atlantic coastline. It took him about ten years and the exchange for that decade was 13,000 acres. I will not reach Mseno on this trip because I’m here on a schedule to serve. Good to know we are so connected to the people of this world.
