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title: Egosurfing
abstract: You cannot prove I was in Montana in the 1930s.
categories:
- personal
content-tags:
- history
---

A search for my full name on Google presently returns [217 results][1].  They appear to all be me, with one interesting exception, the [Big Timber Pioneer of March 5, 1931][2]:

   [1]: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hans+Gerwitz%22
   [2]: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mt/sweetgrass/misc/sgctidbits4.txt

> Hans Gerwitz, who lives across the Yellowstone river east of Big Timber, was in the city Saturday. He states that the new type of worm, green with black and brown spots on its back, did a good job of destruction at his place. He and Mrs. Gerwitz were away overnight and when they returned the garden and flower beds had been stripped.
