[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] dialects

[Ron Neuman]

Verna - In my previous involvement with the AHSGR and in attending 
various AHSGR conventions, I seem to recall that Dona 
Reeves-Marquardt had an ongoing project for a number of years that 
dealt with the topic of tracing your ancestors to villages in Germany 
based on dialects.  I think that she required oral interviews in 
German (based on a prescribed list of questions) with older family 
members, and the tracing was based on quite a variety of linguistic 
attributes.  She may also have made presentations at several 
conventions on this topic.

I don't have an Email address for her, but I suspect that you could 
contact her by means of
GR-GENEALOGY at LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU

If you have any success in contacting her, it would be interesting to 
hear her thoughts.




At 07:36 AM 2/7/2006, Jerry Frank wrote:
>I don't know anyone who has managed to trace their ancestry by way of
>dialect.  There are two main problems with attempting to do so.
>
>First, dialect regions are large.  How would you know which family of
>many in that region you fit into?
>
>Second, there are often intermediate stages of migration between the
>dialect origin and Volhynia or Bessarabia.  If you are missing a
>generation or two of information, you cannot connect to the origin.
>
>
>Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
>FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
>
>
>
>At 08:59 PM 06/02/2006, Verna Hutchinson wrote:
> >Hello List:
> >
> >
> >
> >I've been fortunate  through the kindness of genealogists,in Europe & Canada
> >to further my ancestry
> >
> >back another 4 generations. I started out with only  paternal Grandparents
> >arriving in Canada 1907 from Lutzk Volhynia
> >
> >My maternal Grandparents arrived here in 1913 from Bessarabia.
> >
> >I am now trying to find out where the ancestors immigrated from,before
> >arriving in Volhynia & Bessarabia .
> >
> >The Bessarabian Grandparents spoke either low German. or Swabish.
> >
> >The Volhynian Grandparents spoke a German closer to what the minister
> >spoke,which I thought to be high German
> >
> >
> >
> >Would knowing the right dialect help in finding the area that the families
> >originated from?
> >
> >  Thank you  Verna
>
>
>
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