2005-11-14 16:59 | fche blog seriously worldwide Eiglers

One rarely expects a friendly chat from a customs officer at a US/Canada border crossing.

After he cleared me through, a gentleman at Vancouver International Airport called after me, asking “Eigler? Eigler?”.

It turns out he is one of our clan too, and has some not-so-remote relationship to the same Austrian family that my father’s side descended from. He claimed that there is still a 450-year-old family home in a particular town, and that the whole village would come out to celebrate if an Eigler came by to visit.

Perhaps some day we’ll go and see.

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I invite you to visit the Chang family compound, sitting on an area of over 133,340 square meters, composing of 2 streets, 40+ buildings and 1500+ rooms. My direct family lived there upto 1937. We vacated the home when Japanese troops invaded the area. One of these days, I’ll put up a webpage about it.
Li - 2005-11-17 12:36

  
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