[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Neche, ND and Gretna, MB

[Chris Menke]

Al and everyone else on this subject,
   
  I have a copy of the book "Proudly we speak : a history of Neche, Bathgate, Bruce and Hyde Park." If you or anyone else want me to look up want me to look up any specific families let me know and I will do it no problem. I would recommend it - in fact it was that book that got me started on this genealogy bug. I don't remember exactly off-hand but there are more or less 12 - 15 families mentioned who were Germans from Volhynia, Congress-Poland or Prussia - a lot of families for a town today of 500 or so people. Church services were done there in the Lutheran church in Low German for the older members until the 1980's. 
  I have a surviving grandmother who I am going to see end of July, and will probably visit the Lutheran cemetery there, where many Menke's and other Germans from Russia are buried. I can take photos if anyone wants. 
  Regards,
   
  Chris Menke


Al Meyer <armeyer at telusplanet.net> wrote:
  I suppose quite a few members (like myself) have ancestors who passed through Neche, North Dakota and Gretna, Manitoba. I was wondering if members would mind sharing their research experiences in this area, such as local churches, cemeteries, etc.

Also, would anyone recommend the book "Proudly we speak : a history of Neche, Bathgate, Bruce and Hyde Park." 
PUBLISHER: Neche, [N.D.] : Neche/Bathgate History Book Committee, [1976]-1983. 

Thanks, Al

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Researching Menke / Manke, Brandt, Knorr
  in Prussia, German-Poland, Russian-Poland, Volhynia, North Dakota
   
  Researching Schappert (Schuppert), Ernst, Kullmann, Weiss
  From Staudernheim, Germany; to Galicia, to Manitoba

       
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