Last month I was reading through the post titled “Serbin in the News by Weldon Mersiovsky” on The Wendish Research Exchange website under the “Wend Blogs” on “Weldon’s Wendish Works”. I found the information to be very interesting. There were several references about some kind of disagreement between two doctors named Molette (also spelled Mallette […]
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I’ve been asked to expand a bit on my earlier blog on the Wendish language in Texas. I’m titling this “Five Wends in Texas.” Albert Miertschin The first I wish to mention is Albert Miertschin. There was an article in 1962 or 1963 in the Austin American-Statesman about Albert and the Texas Wendish community. When
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This document was written by David Goeke in response to a question posed by Dr Charles Wukasch in his Blog, titled “Question on German Orthography.” It is presented here because it merits its own place in Dave’s blog. I’m jumping into this conversation in a rather unorthodox manner (what else is new), but, I wanted
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Weldon Mersiovsky asked me to look through the 19th-century issues of Serbske Nowiny to see if there were references to the Wendish migrations. I went through a number of them on-line and found a few things. One thing that surprised me was that, although 99.9% of the articles, advertisements, etc. were in the old Fraktur script, I did come across
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