Anne: I am getting more confused then ever. Looking at the map of Württemberg, the Rhine river flows along side of the province. Can't see the Danube on this map, and looking at my geological chart, I see that many of my ancestors come from that area. So, could you please explain - did they come down the Rhine and the Danube? The map was in German so I couldn't understand very much. Met a woman last year at crafts club. She had an odd accent but I thought that it sounded somewhat German, but a different sort. When I asked, she was indeed German coming from Frankfurt. I told her where I came from and she had never heard of the Danube Schwaben or what happened to them after the war. She was also educated and majored in History in University. Fo figure Helga. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Dreer" <dreera@sympatico.ca> To: <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 2:53 PM Subject: [DVHH] Schwob or Schwäbele > When we came to Canada one of my father’s friends, also a Schwob worked > with a woman who was a Schwäbin (feminine for Schwabe, in DS Schwowin) > from Germany. That man insisted that we Donauschwowe were the only > Schwowe. The woman had never heard of Donauschwaben and the man didn’t > know that there was actually a country whose former name was Schwaben (Now > Württemberg – part of the combined state of Baden-Württemberg in > Germany). Many, but definitely not all DS originated there. What a lot of > them had in common was that they boarded a barge on the Danube (Donau) in > Ulm, Baden Württemberg and floated down that river to the eastern parts of > the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hence the name Donauschwaben. > Anne D. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message