Wuerttemberg is very close to Switzerland. My grandmother, who was from just outside Stuttgart, spent time in a Swiss orphanage. (I have not yet found anything about the orphanage). And her first husband, who clearly was from Germany, was reported by one daughter on the census to have been from Switzerland. I am assuming she was confused. Being from Germany did not get to be a bad thing until about 1933. It was also not good during WW1. To make life more interesting, my grandfather and all his relatives, who came to this country in 1885, were named Fuehrer, and steadfastly refused to change it. My grandfather's complaint was "That man stole my name!" Mostly during both wars the relatives lost mailboxes, but did not have many other problems. Elizabeth C Kathleen March wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I thought I might ask the people who are knowledgeable why a person who has been listed as from Württemberg on several census firms (but Bavière on the ship passenger list) might at one point have a son say that his parents > were from Switzerland? > > Was it a bad thing to be from Germany in 1930 (the census which lists this)? The son was born in NYS about 3 years after parents' arrival in 1854, and I found that in 1866/67 the father went back to Germany for some reason (another mystery), so it > seems impossible that he would not know where they were from. > > Kathleen > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >