[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] "Squareheads"... D:)

[Donna Baxmeyer]

Hello Lloyd and listers,
Logging onto www.AskJeeves.com gave this result for Lloyd's question of why 
people call us "Square Heads"

      "Squarehead: Germans, Swedes & Norwegians Shape of head, late 
19th/early 20th century American word."



This is not an in-depth definition, but my German born and raised husband 
explained this term to me many decades ago.  It is probably why I married 
him, they have a very unique sense of life.  He said: "This is a slang term 
developed hundreds of decades ago.  It came from families who were extremely 
poor and little to no room for all their children to sleep at night.  The 
mothers would stand the children in a corner, and regularly rotate them 90 
degrees for comfort.  Soon, the shapes of the children's heads became 
evident and was a stigma of poverty; the New World was only too glad to have 
a fond name for this situation."  He also stated he should know as it 
happened to him before he immigrated to Canada and is a Canadian Citizen!
    Hope this has been of some help Lloyd,
Donna Baxmeyer
President, Edmonton & District Chapter AHSGR-I
torhaus at telus.net

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Friedrick" <lloydfriedrick at telus.net>
To: "Ger-Rus-HER" <GR-HERITAGE at LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU>; 
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Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] "Squareheads"


>A junior member of my family tree has asked me:
>
> "Why do people call us squareheads?"
>
> This is a slang expression and before I answer him I want to be sure that 
> I am
> using the proper origin of this word.
>
> Help
>
> lloyd friedrick
>
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