Dr. Charles Wukasch shares some memories. -0- As I’ve pointed out several times, the Miertschins were one of the Serbin families which kept up Wendish for a number of years. If my memory serves me correctly, Carl Miertschin (the father of TWHS member Monroe) told me that his grandfather came over on the Ben Nevis. […]
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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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Danny Mattijetz is my first cousin on my mother’s side of the family. The Mattijetz family was a close knit family so we saw each other often as we grew up. We continued to stay in touch. Recently, we both started posting on Facebook, and that is where Danny found out I was looking for
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The Diary of Spruce McCoy Baird is held in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. The transcription of the diary was purchased from the Library in 2015. it is valuable to Wendish researchers in that it mentions Serbin and the conditions in the United States in the immediate years following the Civil
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I was searching Google using the names of the Texas Wendish settlers to see if any of them had been awarded patents. While looking at the results of the search for “Herman Julius Seydler patent” I found one that piqued my curiosity. However, it was not about a patent but about a book detailing a
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Slav Outposts in Central European History: the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs in 2016. It can be purchased through Bloomsbury Publishing. The introduction to the book is reprinted below. Slav Outposts in Central European History Introduction Wends, Sorbs, and Kashubs This is a history of the westernmost Slavs. It is set in the wide, fluctuating frontier area
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The Smallest Slavonic Nation is the best read book about the people called Wends or Sorbs. It can be purchased from Amazon. The Introduction to this fascinating book can be read below. Introduction Location and Distribution The people forming the subject of this study have been known variously in English as Wends, Lusatians orSorbs. They constitute a national minority
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