My little brown envelope!

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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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Sat, 01-17-2009 - 9:19am

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Sat, 01-17-2009 - 9:26am

Ann that is wonderful you can go back so far.

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Sat, 01-17-2009 - 11:47am

very interesting ann

I have often wondered about the adoptee's. so hard to trace...esp the real young ones sent on the train.

as of eric...i have seen may different spellings...erik being one of them.

will you search farther?? It is all so interesting...would love to hear more!

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Sat, 01-17-2009 - 3:15pm

Well, I think we've gone about as far as we can - or as far as we want to. Our


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Sat, 01-17-2009 - 6:31pm

that is a lot of sir names!

ours has stayed pretty much the same with the addition of de veer or von de veer or van de veer ....depending of course where they came from.

I would love to find out about mom's side more...but i would have to talke to her...not happening!

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