Holzminden is a town lies at river Weser. I myself have SCHRADER-ancestors found not so far away from Holzminden in another "Weser-town" named Wahmbeck. Well, my SCHRADER-ancestors disappeared when Charlotta Dorothea SCHRADER married Joh. Gerd WACHSMUTH in 1765. The WACHSMUTHs came from regions down the river. And I found ancestors from SCHRADER-family more and more in regions down the river. It seems river Weser takes down generation to generation with its current to other parts of "Weserland" like a "river of no return".
That your ancestor was illegitemate born doesn't wonder. A protestant priest in Wahmbeck said to me, that she has many christenings, but only few marriages. That's why few people at "Ober-Weser" have farmland on the border of the river and only those are relative prosperously. Many other people in this region are rather poor. She said, that many girls went to next bigger towns, worked in hotels - and soon came back to their parents home, to christening their children. Fathers? Unknown! "That happenes till now," she said.
But for your search I think, you may come into contact with Richard SCHRADER rick@dallasmarine.net . His and my ancestors SCHRADER meet another in 1721, when Johannes SCHRADER married Anna Sophia JACOBS. Because Richard is a SCHRADER-represantative (?), it may be, that there are relatives to your ancestors after 1765, when my family left SCHRADER-family.
I hope that helps you. Please excuse my mistakes - I learned English about 45 years ago and so it's a little bit rusty.
Have nice Easter-days and have a good hunt now and in future!
Yours
Udo (Majewski)
Who was looking for information about a DEDEKE family? I just went through my
messages and dumped them all.
In todays messages was one from a distant cousin in the Hannover area who
sent me photographic copies of some documents in the Hannover Kirchenbuchamt.
One of them has a Dedeke baptism on it. I can't quite make out the name, but I
will be glad to send a copy of it to your personal e-mail address as an
attachment.
Don Roddy
Thanks, Udo, I do appreciate your comments but apparently you are responding to the name Schrader. I should have emphasized Schroeder rather than Schrader. Schroeder is the correct name. I was remembering that their name was always pronounced Schrader, which, of course was the German way. I haven't mastered making an umlaut on my laptop computer but the name would have been Schroder with an umlaut over the "o". I understand your struggles with English. I've studied some German but unfortunately didn't retain much.
Here are at least three ways to type those characters you may find difficult. The first is the most commonly used. Print a copy so that you don't have to look it up each time you want to use it. It requires that you hold down the Alt key and type in a number on (YOUR KEY PAD, NOT THE KEYS AT THE TOP OF THE KEYBOARD). Alt 148 will give you the �.
If you are using a laptop, you have to hold the Alt key, the Fn key and type 148 on the keypad embedded in the keyboard. Or you can press Fn and F9 (Pad lock) That will dedicate your embeded keypad to numbers only.
III
I use the On screen Keyboard which puts an actual keyboard (in a window) on the screen. You need to set up the languages you want to use on your computer first. It is a little complicated to set up, if you will find it great. You look at the on screen keyboard and use is as an template for your regular keyboard, or you can use the mouse and click on the letters.
Start All programs Accessories Accessibility On screen-Keyboard. You have to set up the languages first, then you can toggle back and forth between languages.
Thanks, Gale, for the instructions re: umlaut. I'll try that when I am a little more "free" and not dedicated to preparing for a trip as I am now. We leave next week for Paris to visit a grandson. I am printing your instructions. Blessings.
Peggy
There is an easier way if you are using a Macintosh computer. (Of course everything is easier with a Mac. grin)
If you want to type a letter with an umlaut, first type a "u" while holding down the option key. Then type the letter you want, an "o," "a," or "u" that you want to have an umlaut. That will give you a ö, ä, or ü. Sometimes these do not come across to some people's e-mail. If you want a double "s," type an "s" while holding down the option key and you get ß. I have tried this with my wife's Dell, and it does not work.
Gale & Peggy --
> There is an easier way if you are using a Macintosh computer. (Of course everything is easier with a Mac. grin)
If you want to type a letter with an umlaut, first type a "u" while holding down the option key. Then type the letter you want, an "o," "a," or "u" that you want to have an umlaut. That will give you a �, �, or �. Sometimes these do not come across to some people's e-mail. If you want a double "s," type an "s" while holding down the option key and you get �. I have tried this with my wife's Dell, and it does not work.
There's something similar for PC's, but it doesn't work in my email program (Thunderbird) It works great, though, in Word documents, etc.
For an umlaut:
Hold down the Ctrl and colon key (in other words, the Ctrl, Shift, and semi-colon) together, then release them and type the vowel you want to umlaut.
For double "s", hold the Ctrl, Shift and & keys, release them, and then type s.
For accents, as in Spanish or French, hold Ctrl and ' (apostrophe), release them, and then type the vowel. For ~ above an n, hold Control and ~, release and then type n. Similarly, you can do many other kinds of marks.
Peggy,
I just re-sent the original message to your personal e-mail.
However, using the control key as outlined by someone yesterday works just as
well [in Word ... it doesn't seem to work on my e-mail. However if I type in
Word I can then copy and paste into the e-mail and the umlauts carry through.]
The only advantage of AllChars over that method is that AllChars has a lot of
other unusual symbols & characters that might come in handy someday.
Don Roddy
PS: Let me know if you don't receive the other message.
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