I don't know how much German my ggf learned in school. He was born in Hungary in 1883 and moved to Satnitz in 1890. For the most part I can read his letter from 1954, I just had to ask around about a few antiquated words. I also have a postcard he sent from Slavonia to his brother in law in Passaic NJ and it's nice to see his sense of humor. I was lucky enough to meet him a year before he passed away in 1972. Dan Sent from my Droid Maxx -----Original Message----- From: Anne Dreer <dreera@sympatico.ca> To: donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [DVHH] Translation Needed - Old German Hello Maria, I have a friend who might help with the old German script. The one you described as quaint could be written in DS dialect by someone who did not learn German in school. My parents wrote letters like that. Send me copies of all of them and I'll see what I can do. Anne D. -----Original Message----- From: schwob@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:52 AM To: donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.net ; Maria Moore Subject: Re: [DVHH] Translation Needed - Old German Hi Maria, I might be able to help with the German. I'm curious how it's written because I have a letter written by my great grandfather in 1954 that's in a German dialect that I would describe as quaint. He was born in Balinka. Dan Larson Sent from my Droid Maxx -----Original Message----- From: Maria Moore <Maria.Moore@sas.com> To: "BANAT@rootsweb.com" <BANAT@rootsweb.com>, "donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.net" <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.net> Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:17 AM Subject: [DVHH] Translation Needed - Old German I have two letters that were written in Hungary before WWI and sent to my Grandfather in Chicago. I thought they were written in Hungarian. One of the letters turned out to be two letters (on the same piece of paper) written by two different people in two different languages. One was in Hungarian but the other is in Old German of some dialect. The other letter is also in German. Anyone willing to translate the German or at least identify what dialect they are written in? Thanks, Maria ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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