Index Spelling of Personal and Place NamesFrom Chěžnik to KieschnickOur Kieschnick Lineage NotesJohann Kieschnick and Maria WutscherJohann Kieschnick and Agnes Kalich or KohliObituary of Johann (Jan) Kieschnick (1795)Magdalene Kieschnick and Johann Hottas (Hattas)Other Kieschnicks SPELLING OF PERSONAL AND PLACE NAMES The German language employs modified vowels (Umlaut – Umlaute) ä, ö and ü. As a […]
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Index Spelling of Personal and Place NamesFrom Sterp to HottasOur Sterp to Hottas Lineage NotesPetri Sterp and his wife, MarieJano Sterp and his wife, MarieJohann Sterp and his wife, MarieGeorg Sterp and his wife, MarieJohann Sterp, aka Hottass, and Marie Prelop, aka HottassGeorg Hottass, aka Herz, and Johanna Hodźik, aka HerzAndreas Hottas (Hattas) and Maria SchulzeJohann Hottas
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Index Spelling of Personal and Place NamesFrom Michał to Michałk NotesGeorge Michalk and His Wife, AgnesGeorge Michalk and Magdalene EyenCarl Michalk and Magdalene ZieschangOther MichalksAndreas Michalk and Caroline KrakovskyMaria and Hanna Michalk SPELLINGOF PERSONAL AND PLACE NAMES The German language employs modified vowels (Umlaut – Umlaute) ä, ö and ü. As a rule, all German
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Bill Edwin Biar died on 30 Oct 2012, in Carrollton, Texas having reached the age of 93 years, three months and 23 days. The following words were written on his 90th birthday. My place of birth was on a farm just north of the city limits of Thorndale, Milam County, Texas. My date of birth
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It goes without saying that our Wendish and German forebearers encountered illnesses and maladies of all sorts. How did they deal with them? Let’s take a look at some of the remedies used to give relief and/or to bring about desired results for maladies, dating from the days back in Germany, all the way into the 1940’s here
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The following article first appeared in the Texas Wendish Heritage Society Newsletter beginning in July 2005 and concluding with the April 2006 issue. It was last revised on March 18, 2012. The Wends were no strangers to war. During the Napoleonic period, just forty years before the migration to Texas, they witnessed the Battle of Bautzen fought
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Every January 25th, the Wends go to the birds. Want to know more? Vogelhochzeit is a custom that was celebrated among many of the Wends in Texas until the 1940’s. It then gradually died out, until more recent years when attention was brought to it again. My mother recalled the custom very well and often told
Elmer Hohle recalls and writes down some of his childhood memories and tales told him by his parents in this series of vignettes. Vignette # 1 When sister Edith was 4, Papa and Mama were rent-farming the old Lauschke place. As they went to the barn on the way to the cotton patch, Edith stepped
A “Poem” that flowed forth from my typewriter, in Odessa’s parsonage, on Saturday afternoon, November 18, 1967, when my ‘morrow’s sermon – after hours and days of work, study & meditation – consisted of a blank sheet of paper! A LAMENT IN MIDST OF MY DILEMMA Help me, O God, off the horns of
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On August 9, 1967 at 816 East 18th St. in Odessa, Texas, I was sitting at the kitchen table of the parsonage with a heavy-laden heart, for some antagonistic members were attempting to subvert our pastoral ministry. As I looked out the window, I saw some pansies blooming under three sapling live oaks – all
