“It was very surprising,” Angela Erdmann, 62, said, describing how she found out about the bottle. “A man stood at my door and told me he had post from my grandfather. He then told me that a message in a bottle had been found and that the name that was on the card was that of my grandfather.” Her visitor was a genealogical researcher who had managed to find her in Berlin after the letter was given to a museum in the northern port city of Hamburg.
How did the visitor know the message in the bottle was written by Angela’s grandfather?
Her grandfather’s name appeared on the message Her grandfather’s name was carved on the bottle The person who gave it to the museum said so The letter had unique details about her grandfather’s life