I wish my grand mother and grand father had been alive when I was older as
they came in 1866. I was the youngest child of their youngest child so I
was not born when my grand mother died and six when my grand father died. How
lucky you are to be able to translate the old German script!
Audrey (Werner) Coming
In a message dated 2/15/2011 6:46:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
emwiese1@comcast.net writes:
Ingrid's site that she recommended is most helpful. I would also
recommend
that as one studies the letters in Suetterlinschrift, one would also write
the letters. This not only helps one to memorize the letters, but also
gives an idea of how they will vary in everyday "scribbling". In this
way,
you can get to be an "expert" in a very short time.
My maternal grandmother always wrote in the old script, and she was
thrilled
when she discovered that I could read and write it. I was the only
grandchild who could handle the language that she always loved.
Gene
Eugene M. Wiese
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Wabash, IN 46992-3903
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(260) 846-0516
My grandmother Anna Brumm OEHMIG came from Saxony with her parents and brothers and sisters.
She said she was about six years old. However I never knew where in Saxony. About 20 years ago
my husband and I made a trip to Sanilac County,Michigan where the family lived. After visiting other new
cousins, ( people that didn't know they had cousins in Montana.) We went to the family farm where my grandmother
lived on. We visited the people that owned it at that time. In fact the barn that my grandmother's brother shot himself
in was still standing, only the present owners had moved it to a different location. It has since burned down.
However the owner called us at the motel that night and said the he had a copy of a book of the Saxony Colony
and that the BRUMM name was mentioned it in several times and that if we wanted to borrow the book and copy
it we could. Which we did. In the book it said Mr. Brumm of Chrimmitshau was the colony baker.
Yeah, at last I knew where the family came from. I then contacted a researcher in Salt Lake City, who went to
Germany every year. She went to Chrimmitschau to the church and got all the records she could, then she
followed the family back to 2 other towns. Sure it may have cost me close to $1,000.00, however I could not
have did the trip like she did. She also video taped the Church that my grandmother was christened in. ( Before
her camcorder blowup.
She did say church offices are only open at certain times, and that at one church the minister told the secretary
how much to charge the visitors for copies. Fortunately Ruth had been there before and knew the correct fees.
And did not have to pay the exorbitant fees the minister wanted.
I am still in contact with one cousin, but her parents divorced when she was young and she knows nothing
of her fathers family. I have lost contact with another cousin who sent me a detailed BRUMM pedigree
chart, however the writing is to tiny I have had trouble reading it.