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| Date | 12 November 2013 |
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| Message | re Ballack family - South Africa. I read an email from Carel Ballack and would be grateful if he could contact me at: [email protected] as I do have some information on the South African Ballack family |
Private Message added 31 October 2013 |
| Date | 8 October 2013 |
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| Message | You can listen to Wendisch radio and watch Wendisch TV online.Google up :" RBB Sorbisches Programm"(RBB=Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg) ! The radio programme is in Wendisch(Lower Sorbian), TV-programme has German sub-titles. Some great folk - music there. Cheers,Hans |
| Date | 6 October 2013 |
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| Message | Family name is Rolfe, my fathers mother was a Boehme(Ottawa Valley Boehme's) Other side of that family were Budarick's and Jessops. Not sure of how i can be of assistance, just checking my family history and genealogical origins. Thanks so much for nay information, appreciated. Regards Daniel Rolfe |
| Date | 5 October 2013 |
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| Message | I am a descendant of the Wends in Serbin, Texas. I would like to send an email to Patricia Phyllis Buchholz Peterson to see about history including ship passenger list but do not have her email address. I have not been to the Serbin Museum in Texas, but my parents have visited several times and have a house in Giddings, which is near Serbin. I hope to visit the museum there during my next trip to Texas. Thanks for having this website. I have learned a great deal about my heritage through Google searches about the Wends this evening. |
Private Message added 25 September 2013 |
| Date | 6 September 2013 |
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| Message | My gr gr grandparents were Johann KOSSATZ and Anna SCHLODDER from Drehnow. They married in the Peitz Wendish Church in 1836, and had 4 daughters – Maria, Anna, Elisabeth and Christiana. Johann died in 1850 age 40, and 3 years later Anna remarried – Georg KAINA from Preilack, and they had a son, Freidrich. In 1859 the family emigrated to South Africa, but after 5 years trying to make a living from the arid and infertile land they’d been allocated, they moved again - to New Zealand – perhaps the only Wends to come here! They were amongst the first settlers in Waipipi, a rich farming area on the southern shore of the Manukau harbour. I am a direct descendant of their daughter Anna, who married Heinrich CORDES (a bootmaker from Koblenz) in Auckland NZ in 1867. For many years their arrival in NZ was a total mystery as the daughters still used their KOSSATZ surname, and there was no KOSSATZ family on any passenger arrival lists! I have only recently uncovered the KAINA connection, and found they travelled as “Georg and Anna KAINA and their 5 children.”!! So don’t give up – all you Wendish Heritage seekers out there! Lloyd GLEESON, New Plymouth, NZ. (I am humbled by the hardship they endured to ensure their children had a better start in life than they.) |
| Date | 21 August 2013 |
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| Message | I am decendant of Wends in Serbin Texas. I have wedding picture of Christen Kolba and Marie Kasperich married before 1850 in Germany. While visiting in Berlin I purchased Wenden decorated eggs at a flower shop. Please e-mail me if you are connected to Wends in Serbin Texas. My daughter attended their festival the 4th Sunday of Sept a few years ago. We have history including ship passenger list. |
| Date | 29 July 2013 |
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| Message | My Grandfather Wend was born in Berlin German in the 1800. He came from a big family and they moved to U.S.A in the late 1800. They settled in New York City. He worked as a photoengraver and made it big at Hearst Newspapers! Good to link with your website! Wendy Roach |
| Date | 26 July 2013 |
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| Message | Travelling to Cortnitz Bautzen area in September to trace family history from Johan Mickan migrating to South Australia around 1840 I think. Hoping to find some records Somwhere. |
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