Graudenz

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1. George Hand
   Feb 19, 2012 @ 12:42:43

   I reached you via a search on Graudenz, my maternal grandmother’s Heimatstadt. Friede Mueller, came here around 1900, met and married (in Auburn, NY) a gent from Stryj in then Austrian Silesia by the name of Roman Unterschutz. I have one or two photographic items of possible interest to somebody: a studio photograph of my grandmother, great-grandfather and a great uncle about whom I know absolutely nothing (my vaguest of early childhood recollections are that he was some sort of black sheep). There was a sister, probably half-sister, who was allegedly a nurse who had the misfortune to have been in Rotterdam when the Wehrmacht arrived in 1940 and was never heard from again, and a much younger half-sister who was, along with her children, considered members of immediate family, who went by the married name of Herring shortened from Herringer. The other photo item is a postcard from Graudenz sent around 1910 to Auburn with a I think Rathaus photo on one side and greetings of some sort written in the old German script that no one I know can read. Your website appears primarily interested in Mennonites about which I know a little having lived in Lancaster, PA in the late Sixties. Grandmother was, however, Reformed, not Mennonite.

2. Mark Rabideau
   Feb 19, 2012 @ 13:08:22

   Hello George & welcome… as for my Mennonite info, it is just a small corner of the site (but it is one I am currently working). Most of my mother’s family were Evangelische aus Westpreussen in der naehe von Zeyer. My father’s ancestors are primarily Quebecois. My wife’s are Quaker, Mennonite, Lutherans from Sweden, Norway, Iowa, Switzerland and the Alsace (Elsass).