On 2002-05-23 17:17 +0200, Linda Bernard wrote: > I thought Sohn was German as in Mendelsohn (?). > Did I spell that name correctly? > Explaining her descent obviously is up to Judi -- however, her name "Sohn" seems to be pretty obvious Swabian (south-western of Germany).
Of cause, around 1800, really lots of Swabians (30%? don't know about any exact numbers) emigrated to Russia, like my ancestors did as well. After WW2, all those emigrants had to either (a) emigrate to some third party foreign country, (b) go back to Germany, (c) had to run away into direction S/E Russia or (d) would be imprisoned. -- Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany PGP key [DSS/DH] 0xA23CDA1D available at various public key servers -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
