<gale@bosche.info> schrieb:
Hi Hans Peter:
Your comment that the German families have not been mobile
supprised me. You estimate that 50% of the of people who
emmigrated can still find their name in the town of their
ancestor's origin. Maybe I will start writing some
letters to the Hoya area.
...
Hello Gale,
they were mobile and are in a growing amount for the same reasons as in all industrialized countries, but as they weren`t a l l mobile there are better chances that some remained and traditioned the family name up to now. But there may also be a more intensive mentality for going back to the place which is felt as the family place. So my family had several changes in living place because of the work with the railway of my father. That why and lateron studies at different universities made me have now a list of 6 different places, but also being now simply 17 km apart from the village where my fathers people can be found since about not to far after the Thirty-Year-War. Future Generations will have a lot of more work to trace back their anchestors as we do now have.
By the way I had some 25 years ago a female neighbour in a students home in Hamburg studying archaelogy. She was busy with trials of digging out vestiges of the old "Hammaburg", which goes back to the beginnings of Hamburg about 800 or maybe earlier. Don`t know what had become of her, but she was from Bremen and her name was Gudrun Neddermeier. She must have been born about 1954 +/- 2 years. So one more for your archive. Good luck with Hoya area.
Greetings Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel