Dannenburg, Uelzen and Wolzen

hannover-l
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<DSore10588@aol.com> schrieb:
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I have a question about the above towns. I have a marriage record for an
ancestor that states she was from Dannenburg, Hannover, Germany. The sister of
this ancestor repeatedly came to America with her husband and children and
went back again to Germany. They did this at least three times. (Something
I've never seen before nor understand why or how they were able to do.)

On two of the ship records they state they are from what looks like Wolzen,
but Wolzen is closer to Uelzen than Dannenburg. I've heard of Dannenburg
like I've heard of Frankfurt, Bremen, etc. I've never heard of Uelzen. Would
Uelzen have been a big enough town in the 1860's that a person from Wolzen
would have said Uelzen instead of Dannenburg? I've been looking for them
unsuccessfully in Dannenburg for years. Others have suggested to me that I should
continue looking in Dannenburg. There are several films for Wolzen covering
all the time periods that I need. I've just been burned so many times by
ordering films, which have gone up quite a bit in price, only to find that there
isn't a trace of anyone I know there.

Any suggestions?

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Janet

Hi Janet,

if you meant the films about Molzen, the suggestion is yes you should take a look into it.
Molzen is today almost a part of Uelzen. They have the same postcodenr. 29525. Since 1847 Uelzen was railway station between Hanover and Hamburg. It was then, when the region around Dannneberg began to become a bit offsided. It should have been also at that time already at least the double in size as Dannenberg. What is the name of the person you are researching and which date exactly are you looking for ?

Greetings

Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel

P.S.: Dannenberg is still not directly at the river Elbe, but from Uelzen in direction to. The small river in Dannenberg is called Jeetzel.

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My grandmother told me that her mother went home to Sweden every summer
once her daughters were teenagers and able to take care of the janitor chores
on the apt. bldgs. the mother owned! I assume the father was around but let the
little ladies sweep the steps and mop the halls while he did better things!

My great-grandmother went back to Switzerland twice to see her parents after
she married in the USA. I think once she took her children and the second
time they were grown and did not go with her.

If American immigrants inherited money or property in Germany they could not
take the money out of Germany .... or sell the property and take the money out of
Germany. So that may have been a good reason to go back there and at least
stay awhile, if one inherited the family farm or business.