Jim Beaver Instagram – In the 15th century, an Alsatian family formerly named de Beauvoir but now called Bieber, settled in the village of Hirschland, near Strasbourg. Over the centuries, the area belonged to France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Germany. (Currently it’s in France.) In the early 17th century, one of the Biebers brought his family to America, where he settled in Pennsylvania and where the family named transformed from the German Bieber to the equivalent word in English, Beaver.
Today I visited Hirschland, still a tiny village in the green and gold rolling hill land of eastern France. To my surprise, five hundred years later, I’ve still got family here. None of them stood up when I came in, though. | Posted on 31/May/2022 17:42:17
