[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Spanish Lands

[Christopher Menke]

Happy Friday,
  Germans turn up in the darndest places - my wife is from Guatemala and there are a lot of Germans there, coffee growers and exporters mostly. My wife's cousin is married to one and his family has been there since 1880's. Neighboring Belize has many Mennonites also. 
   
  I speak, read and write Spanish if anyone ever has anything I would be glad to help.
   
  Chris Menke 

gloriah4 at juno.com wrote:
  Ed,

Your mention of "GRs from Mexico" really perked my interest. Do you have
other information about them in addition to "language"? 

I ask because my husband's family immigrated into the U. S. via Mexico
and yet we can locate nothing that links them back to the Ukraine. Their
passports show that they left the Ukraine by way of LeHavre and the next
(and last) stamp shows their disembarking in Vera Cruz Mexico. This was
in 1926.

One of our main research questions is, how did they get from the Ukraine
(and from where in the Ukraine) to LeHavre? Also, we have been unable to
locate a ship manifest since we have been unable to find that their ship
ever sailed to Mexico. It did indeed sail from LeHavre that year but only
landing in New York it seems.

Were there many GRs in Mexico? Somehow I've always pictured our family as
being exceptions and we can't figure why they went to Mexico of all
places. 

Any scrap of help is appreciated. Thanks.

Gloria Hoppe (wife of Al HOPPE)
East Texas, USA
Researching: HOPPE, TOBER, SAWATZKI, Neudorf Volhynia, Novograd Walinsk


On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:16:53 -0400 "Ed Sonnenburg"
writes:
> When translating old letters I always found it a challenge when the 
> writer
> threw in words or phrases from another language. When people live
> in a certain place for a generation or two they pick up local 
> words.
> My GR relatives and friends would flawlessly speak German but
> then curse in either Russian or Polish. 
> 
> I always found it a challenge to understand the low German
> but when the GRs from Mexico spoke low German and
> threw in Spanish words it was almost impossible to understand.
> 
> It is pretty hard for me to speak German today without throwing
> in an English word - Ich geh und leere aus den Garbage.
> I'm going to empty the garbage can. It was too hard
> to say Muell Eimer.
> 
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