Susan,
I see you have Stier as family relations. I have Stiers. Did any of your
lines come to the USA
Cindy
Indiana
[Original Message]
From: sv <davesusanv@hotmail.com>
To: Hannover-L <hannover-l@genealogy.net>
Date: 10/3/2007 2:59:19 AM
Subject: Re: [HN] dialects for CindyHi,
Germanic languages - Wikipedia
This is a pretty interesting article. English and German are the largest
of the Germanic languages. Even though I took German so long ago, (but
could read the old style lettering as a young child, but usually not
understanding it), I can see common similarities in them, and when I try to
learn other Germanic languages from friends online, such as Dutch, I pick
them up pretty easily. I was conjugating verbs the first night I started
learning Dutch from a friend online.
good night in English is translated as: goede nacht in Holland and gute
Nacht in German and god natt in Norwegian.
I know there is a lot more to it, such as the nomitive, accusative,
dative, and genitive cases, the past, present, and future tenses, plus all
the plural endings to learn. But it's a fun personal challenge for me to
learn German, but of course difficult to learn, since my grandmother is no
longer living.
Lots of things just have to be memorized such as guten Tag but gute
Nacht. That's easy to remember if you know the hymn Stille Nacht in German.
Well, sorry to be boring, but there are lots of good websites out there.
Take care,
susan voth
(stier, busse, kirchhoff, behr, behrens)My Stier relatives were from eastern Germany (near Plauen-Chemnitz), and
the rest are from near Hannover.
ok one more addition: "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. It's about a
German soldier, coincidentally from Chemnitz, who fought in Russia. It's
amazing what they went through there, and with the weather there, etc. I
love to read autobiographies also from soldiers on both sides of our Civil
War. "The Forgotten Soldier" is very interesting if you enjoy history and
autobiographies, which I do.