[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German culture in North Amercia; Was Re: Kwiatkowski - Bluemke

[Lloyd Friedrick]

 I don't. It is far more often suggested that my roots must be Jewish because of my surname. Again, it is not.


Jerry Frank

Hello Jerry

I cannot resist making a comment on your "Jewish" surname.
After leaving beautiful Alberta we retired to  the velly British society of Victoria, British Columbia.
We live in a fairly large Condominium building with many retired English folk. 
Sometime ago , they discovered that I was researching my German roots.

Later on, a lady [?] on the elevator said to me; 
"It must be difficult for you to go through life as a German with a Jewish name !"

Lloyd Friedrick




----- Original Message -----
From: Spaghettitree at aol.com
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 10:18 am
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Kwiatkowski - Bluemke
To: otto at schienke.com, ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> 
> Hello again, Otto - I should have included the fact that my 
> brothers and I 
> were forbidden to learn a word of German (though we learned what 
> Verboten! 
> meant). There remains a very strong stigma from WW I and 
> WW II for anyone and 
> anything German in America, especially from people of Jewish 
> heritage. I have 
> even been accused of having something to do with Hitler's 
> holocaust, simply 
> because of the name Schoenky! Never mind that I was 
> far too young, never in 
> Europe (until 1999) and am as horrified as anyone else over that 
> insane genocide! 
> I have learned some German, word by word, though by no means 
> conversational, 
> as a necessity in order to understand my own genealogical 
> heritage and help 
> others to do the same. 
> 
> If anyone knows about a dictionary in Polish or Russian similar 
> to the German 
> one (German-English Genealogical Dictionary by Ernest Thode) I 
> would love to 
> know about it. I use Thode's book (in addition to numerous 
> other dictionaries 
> and texts) on a daily basis. 
> 
> All that aside, German foods and beers and Octoberfests and 
> many, many 
> Germanic customs are immensely popular here, and 
> increasing - i.e., profit-making. 
> Adolphus and Gussie Busch in St. Louis did rather 
> well! And so did 
> Griesedieck and Schlitz and Lempe and Pabst and many, many 
> others, at least until 
> Busch took over - and now they are no longer the top beer barons 
> either. 
> 
> The best thing I see about all these message boards is bringing 
> people of 
> differing heritages together with the common denominator of 
> genealogy; when you 
> get right down to it, we are all family, after all. 
> 
> Maureen Schoenky
> 
> 
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