Proofreading, Translation and Other Things

I thought it was high time that I provided you all with a sample of the German → English translations I offer. This particular piece was done as a favour to my friend, Emma, who is a marine biologist and the Ranger of Sanday . It's quite a sad topic, but interesting nonetheless. The original article can be read here . Eight sperm whales stranded  As many as eight young bulls have perished at the Wadden Sea at Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein. The animals were stranded around two kilometres from the dyke in Upper Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog - as the Coastal Protection, National Park and Marine Conservation Agency (the LKN) announced on Monday.  Up to eight sperm whales were stranded at the Wadden Sea  By: The German Press Agency dpa  Article posted: Monday, 01.02.2016 17:53  Source: Brunckhorst / LKN.SH / AFP  Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog. The animals, which were between nine and twelve metres long, were discovered on Sunday evening. An LKN announcement stated t

Note: I actually started drafting this blog post some time ago. Like many others, I was shocked and saddened at the unexpected news of David Bowie's passing. I therefore decided to wait for a while before finally publishing this article in its complete form today (18 July). ---------------------------- It's no secret among those who know me that genealogy is a major passion of mine. When I was a child, my grandmother would often tell me stories about how she'd grown up in rural Wales, evoking images of a way of life that no longer exists. I always had it in the back of my mind to draw up a family tree. Sadly, I never managed to do so during my grandmother's lifetime, mainly because I wasn't sure how to go about it. Building a family tree! That changed in around 2009, when I became aware of the BBC series " W ho Do You Think You Are? ". The premise of it is that they take famous people and trace back their roots, using historical do