Hi Bob, I have not found any ancestors in Klein Betschkerek (yet), so I don’t know anything about that town. But your question is very interesting. I plan to research it and post my findings soon. Dolores > On Jan 12, 2018, at 6:47 AM, banat-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Gross Betschkerek and Klein Betschkerek (Robert Wolf) > 2. Re: BANAT Digest, Vol 13, Issue 8 (Joan Shaver) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:37:17 -0600 > From: "Robert Wolf" <bobwolf@prodigy.net> > To: <banat@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [BANAT-L] Gross Betschkerek and Klein Betschkerek > Message-ID: <026001d38b35$1e412630$5ac37290$@prodigy.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Noting your references to Gross Betschkerek, I am wondering if you know any > of the history with these two towns? Which was settled first, are the > immigrants primarily from Germany, where, was there much interaction between > residents of the two towns? > Thanks, Bob

Hi Bob, The Hungarian village of Bečkerek (aka Nagy Bečkerek, Gross Betschkerek, Zrenjanin) was settled as early as the 14th century, according to the Zrenjanin article in Wikipedia. The German settlement of Klein Betschkerek began in 1785 just south of Serbian Klein Betschkerek (cf. http://www.kleinbetschkerek.de/index.htm <http://www.kleinbetschkerek.de/index.htm>). > On Jan 12, 2018, at 6:47 AM, banat-request@rootsweb.com <mailto:banat-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Gross Betschkerek and Klein Betschkerek (Robert Wolf) > 2. Re: BANAT Digest, Vol 13, Issue 8 (Joan Shaver) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:37:17 -0600 > From: "Robert Wolf" <bobwolf@prodigy.net <mailto:bobwolf@prodigy.net>> > To: <banat@rootsweb.com <mailto:banat@rootsweb.com>> > Subject: [BANAT-L] Gross Betschkerek and Klein Betschkerek > Message-ID: <026001d38b35$1e412630$5ac37290$@prodigy.net <mailto:026001d38b35$1e412630$5ac37290$@prodigy.net>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Noting your references to Gross Betschkerek, I am wondering if you know any > of the history with these two towns? Which was settled first, are the > immigrants primarily from Germany, where, was there much interaction between > residents of the two towns? > Thanks, Bob