[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Westfalen migration (was: Re: Nosowiecze)

[Christopher Menke]

Any comments on this....
 
Is it POSSIBLE some of the Germans from Poland / Prussia / Volhynia went to Westfalen, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony because it was viewed as the old, yes way back, ancestral homeland, and therefore a place where they would feel they "fit in" as opposed to say Bavaria? I have read that many of the Germans in West Prussia / Poland came from those regions in the mid-1600's. Those areas were all under Prussia for a time also. Many of the -KE surnames seem to originate in that area also. 
 
Thoughts? 
 
Chris Menke


 
 




From: PnSWork at aol.com
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:01:53 -0400
Subject: Westfalen migration (was: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Nosowiecze)
To: chrismenke at hotmail.com; dhiller1 at gmx.de; heinrichrichter1 at aol.com
CC: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org


Hi all,
 
    The Ruhr industrial area was completely rebuilt after the war, so they had a lot of jobs to offer, and many people moved there as a result.  My own relatives from the Plock region initially settled in Schleswig Holstein, but most of them quickly moved to Essen because that's where the jobs were.
 
    -Paul
 

In a message dated 8/29/2012 6:30:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, chrismenke at hotmail.com writes:

I have been finding in my research that a LOT of the eastern Germans who did not go to the Americas following the World Wars went to Nordhein-Westfalen. I have numerous examples. 
   Chris Menke






> From: dhiller1 at gmx.de
> To: heinrichrichter1 at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:16:28 +0200
> CC: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Nosowiecze
> 
> 
> 
> > Westfalen is an area in Western Germany, Westphalia, see e.g. here:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalia
> > Herford is a not so big town there, see e.g. google maps:
> > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=herford 
> > Number 14 could stand for the postal code, which was pretty short
> > once. However, maybe it was the house number, but then the name of the
> > street is missing. So I doubt it is.
> > 
> > Dietmar
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, den 29.08.2012, 13:59 -0400 schrieb
> > heinrichrichter1 at aol.com: 
> > 
> > > Hello list Members:
> > > An old photo of a farm in our family photo collection has the name Nosowiecze 1931 written on the back. Also on the back, but in very different ink and handwriting is: Pauline Betker, Westfalen, Nr. 14, Westfalen, Kreis Herford. My mother and father lived in Nosowiecze at this time and until 1940 when they resettled to western Poland. My two older brothers were born in Nosowiecze and although my mother's maiden name was Betker I have been unable to make a connection with Pauline Betker in our family history. Although the information following Pauline Betker appears to be an address, I have had no luck finding such an address in Germany. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > > Heinrich Richter
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