My little brown envelope!
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| Fri, 01-16-2009 - 10:51am |
I got a package in the mail in a brown envelope...bet i have everyones attention now lol
Ok it was from my aunt.more of dads family info. One part was a story my grandma told to my aunt about how they got to prussia and later to canada after some stopes in other parts of the world. Very interesting. How my great grandma and grandpa had the russian soldiers come to their home when the revolution started and take my great grandmas lace blouse and great grandpas fur coar. they al;so too all the guns and ammo. Then they lined my great grandfather against the wall and threatened to shoot him. He after ran to a relitives to hide. The russians made my great grandma bake bread and buns for them. she lost her wedding band in the flour and the soldiers would not give it back.
One day my great grandma baked extra bund and then toasted them to make them last longer. Made a big roll of sausage, and collected a few possesions and they and the family(along with other relitives went against the russians orders and boarded a train to germany to escape.
So much lice and mites that they had to heat the clothing in stoves to kill them.Grandma had a new baby and had to wash diapers when the train stopped and dry them on bushes.Grandpa would get water for tea and they would sit and eat.
They cheered when they crossed into germany.The train made their eyes red and the germans kept them in camps till the eyes cleared. My great grandfather made cradles for the germans while they waited the 3.5 monthes and then left for canada.
Grandma was not sure what island they landed on maybe by montreal...maybe by P.E.I.??
They traveled to altona Manitoba november 12 23rd 1923.They stayed in a church for a while, and grandma got a job at a farn doing housework.then to arnold namitoba to try farming with other families.3 homes and 11 families in them.
Grandma says her coat was stollen there...a big thing in those days!
the land was too wet so they moved backto altona. great grandpa almost moved them to peace river alberta) till he found out how cold it was there LOL.
Grandma worked for a family ion beaver flats saskatchewan for a while. They could not afford grandma anymore so she went to a cousins funeral in swift current and asked for her job ...lol not a nice time to ask but those were what they did then.
Grandma met and married grandpa in 1935.They bought a home in main center sask and later bought the farm at Balcaress Saskatchewan. The youngest of five was born there.
I think i told you guys before that i had an uncle that was a count...well there was also geisbert Jans de Veer who left ansterdam in the late 16th century to migrate to prussia(now poland)He returned to ansterdam in 1599. He was elected mayor (burger meister) for the years of 1600 and 1601...then returned to prussia and ided near danzig(now gdansk) in 1610 - 1615.
our family when leaving prussia then split into 4 veer families. one moving to lincoln nebraska. also canada, mexico, paraguay and brazil. so we are now all over.
hope i didn't bore you all too much!






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Dh and I have been doing our family trees for years and years, so I thought your story of your
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Glenda, that was not boring at all......It's great that you have learned so much of your family history
Granny to Caleb and Scotia
it is facinating, knowing what she went through. so glad my aunt got the story from grandma!
How far back ar you in your history??
Ya i wonder why we didn't choose the heat LOL esp this week!!
I have to sit down and read some more to see what else she has in the envelope. I sent her a pic from ND where some of my grandfathers relitives are from(i look like one of them...can't remeber who now), a relitive on facebook nobody knew and more on a menonite history site from manitoba.As i find stuff i send it to my aunt....she figures out where they fit!
I was lucky Rusty
my aunt did all the work and printed it off for me. I just send her new info as i find it.
now what ticked me was adding all the suff i had before and printing it out for thomas' class and he being taken out of it the next week for resource room. The also kept the copy i sent to show other kids!! Jerks!! Thomas would have saved his grade with that.
donna
it has been a real nice read. i have to add it to the other stuff and copy for thomas. Sucks that my printer is on the rag...well mentallyt. it says it has a paper jam and wont work. may have to buy a new one??
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