tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post895846131113197803..comments2024-03-08T04:04:45.132-08:00Comments on Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings: My Estonian Grandmother--found!loverofwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-90796741056619945372014-11-11T18:08:58.274-08:002014-11-11T18:08:58.274-08:00Same with Larry's (my husband) parents. Post W...Same with Larry's (my husband) parents. Post WWI, his father and uncle, as teenagers, were traveling south from Ukraine. In Romania they were jailed. Luckily, someone rescued them and sent them on their way. Eventually, they came to America on the SS Berengaria, a poster of which I had framed for Larry.pam levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781702179761769967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-76607333952290797802014-09-18T07:32:39.005-07:002014-09-18T07:32:39.005-07:00"There" is Russia, then the Soviet Union..."There" is Russia, then the Soviet Union--children grew up so fast during those years.loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-14868929327180527072014-09-18T07:30:28.622-07:002014-09-18T07:30:28.622-07:00Still a mystery surrounding my father. On the Est...Still a mystery surrounding my father. On the Estonian genealogy web site, my grandfather had four siblings, they all have a birth date, no death date, so they disappeared or something happened to them. But it's interesting to see the ships records and there is my mother age 14, her brother age 12 and her sister age 10, who came over all by themselves for two weeks on that ship. My grandparents were already here, having come to NY four or more years before, then the Russian Civil War and Revolution broke out and the kids were stuck there for those years. <br />loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-90406188961890631362014-09-17T01:47:32.777-07:002014-09-17T01:47:32.777-07:00Hi Natasha. My maternal grandparent's were par...Hi Natasha. My maternal grandparent's were part of the large number of Jews who came to the UK from Kiev early last century as a teenage bride and groom! As Hilary has said, the Internet has made it possible for people to explore a past that they thought was closed to them.<br />Your story is a fascinating one and so typical of many immigrants to the USA and Great Britain.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s fabulous Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-91148638097776994172014-09-13T10:24:38.379-07:002014-09-13T10:24:38.379-07:00Swedish, Finnish and Estonian--such interesting la...Swedish, Finnish and Estonian--such interesting languages and hard to read. My sister and I are first generation and I think I am the only one I know here who is--most are third and fourth or? And in some ways, you always feel a little different.loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-34762053901703109752014-09-13T10:17:24.914-07:002014-09-13T10:17:24.914-07:00Interesting for me as I am the immigrant, somethin...Interesting for me as I am the immigrant, something I have thought about a lot lately, and my family is pretty much known to me. They were for the most part all Swedes and I know where in Sweden they came from. I even took a trip to my great-grandparents place in 2001. And for most Americans, the story is the complete opposite. So many Americans may have no idea where their families came from. In Sweden, we consider the Baltic states our neighbors across the water, so now we are sort of neighbors. Interesting.Ingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924736131382149056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-48949075506606837152014-09-11T10:08:59.823-07:002014-09-11T10:08:59.823-07:00The whole secretive thing--hard for us to understa...The whole secretive thing--hard for us to understand these days, but I think there may have been reasons for being quiet. My father loved Paris and when he came to the US he had a French accent and everyone called him "Frenchy" so when he changed his name he became Allan French, French is my maiden name. If I told you this story before, I apologize. Ah, Scotland, a favorite of mine. I received a lovely letter from Alexander McCall Smith, the author who has written many stories about Scotland and Africa. I wrote him a fan letter.loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-49831355362757848892014-09-11T07:57:00.244-07:002014-09-11T07:57:00.244-07:00Interesting what we find out and what was hearsay,...Interesting what we find out and what was hearsay, or family legend. Like history, we only know what our ancestors want us to know until we start digging for official records. It seems like Paris was a stopover point for many Europeans coming to the US in those days. Good luck in the further tracking. <br /><br />My sister and I do have a bit of concrete information re our ancestors from Scotland, saved by a few relatives with forethought (family tree on mother's father's side, medical records on father's side-which was more secretive and didn't write much down.D.G. Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213237734772028645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-10461790312067665472014-09-11T06:29:24.581-07:002014-09-11T06:29:24.581-07:00Thanks, Hilary. From not having a single relative...Thanks, Hilary. From not having a single relative on my father's side, we now have 'cousins twice removed, etc." real people,! I am so excited! and real names, although, I was close. And I love my grandmother's real name "Emielie Natalie Kullerkupp." Oh, found out our name means "Globe Flower." Still do not know about my dad and what his dad did that made my dad so fearful, fearful enough to change his name and not discuss his past. So more research to be done. We have his papers when he entered the US through Mexico and I remember him telling us that he was proud that there was a special act by our Congress that permitted him and others to become citizens.loverofwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763349886822924646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000213818076940390.post-14483773103095379942014-09-11T00:08:27.169-07:002014-09-11T00:08:27.169-07:00Hi Nat - the wonders of the internet .. but at lea...Hi Nat - the wonders of the internet .. but at least you've been able to find out and trace some of their wonderful history ... now you can imagine and put a little more flesh around their story ... How fortunate your father came to the States ... but so interesting to see how far they travelled and moved around .. and now from NYC you're in the west of the States.<br /><br />Fascinating to read about .. thanks for sharing your history with us .. cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.com