I'm trying to find name for ancestors origins. I have a photo of him
from a Gelsenkirchen studio.
A birth record for his daughter lists another city as his home. I can
not make out all of it but this is what I can tell:
SCHEVE---LY It could also begin SCHERENELY but is only a guess. The
document is 50 years old.
Any ideas on this.
Rgrds, Gordon
Hello Gordon
Best wishes from someone who used to work in GE
Might the town you search be Scholven
Now a suburb of GE
Try to send me a scan of the document, just the name of the town
Best wishes
Herbert Pithan
Dordogne, France
Hi Gordon,
Words with such a beginning as SCHEVE......>like in Scheveningen?<, looks
more like a Dutch word. I have to think of the last worldwar, people of the
Dutchresistance used express codewords with such a beginning in
radiotransmissions with England, because the soft 'G' for 'CH' pronunciation
is difficult between the hard sounding German words. When you are not
normally using such words, you tie a knot in your tongue using it. That was
the reason of using it. The fact that it is a photo made in Gelsenkirchen
will say noting, it is also a place where many Dutch take there holiday.
Harry van Deelen
from a rainy Enkhuizen-Netherlands