[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Sayings and Tales

[Ed S]

Was Haenschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmer mehr

What Hansy hasn't learned, Hans will never learn.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "karl roussin" <kroussin at fidnet.com>
To: <GVLESS at aol.com>; <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Sayings and Tales


>   One German ditty that My Mom and Her brothers said , ( when shown how to
> fix a problem by someone else )
>   " two heads are better than one , even if one is a sheep head "
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <GVLESS at aol.com>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:11 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Sayings and Tales
>
>
> > That is exactly what we want to preserve as what some of you have sent
in
> > already today.  I started about 3 years ago to collect "stories" of Life
> in
> > Volhynia that told of what it was like over there when our
> grandparents/parents
> > lived there.  This past year some requests came in for the stories out
of
> Poland.
> >  Some have already come in.  And now it is to add those short sayings
and
> > folk tales to the collection.  Keep it up.  They are wonderful to use by
> SGGEE in
> > several ways.  Right now, some will be used in the SGGEE Journal as Bill
> > Fife, editor, sees fit.  It has been my hope that eventually we might as
> an
> > organization have a booklet printed of these stories, sayings, folk
tales,
> etc. for
> > all who would be interested in securing a copy.  That is still a future
> dream
> > for now.  But hopeful.  My intent in doing this is to be able to reach
> those
> > of us who have no idea what life was about of our ancestors since many
of
> us
> > never thought to ask when older family members were around, or never
even
> > experienced some of what they might have said or did even here in North
> America.  I,
> > for one, was like that. I never even heard the German language spoken as
> my
> > grandparents died when I was young, and my parents wanted to be like the
> > "Americans" and speak English.  Fortunately, it was my husband's
Volhynian
> parents
> > that began to introduce me to some of their history while they were
alive.
> So
> > all this is exciting for me to hear from you.  Short comments, short
> stories
> > are just as welcome as the longer ones.
> >
> > For the record however, whatever you wish to share with SGGEE we do want
> to
> > be able to use them in whatever way is best in publishing them.  So -
need
> your
> > permission to allow that to be done.  For those of you who may just
> "publish"
> > your own book some day - go for it.  It was a labor of love when my
> husband
> > and I accomplished that and published in 2001.  He now is gone.  So
> thankful we
> > did this for not only ourselves but the extended family members that we
> found
> > during our research and never knew before we began.
> >
> > Keep the "s" in our name of SGGEE to mean "search" and "share".  Thank
> you.
> > Virginia Less
> >
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