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.