Since I have jumped in on the Kraut Glace, I will introduce myself as a new listmember. My nameis Marilyn McClaskey, nee Hochban. I grew up until age 6 with my grandmother in the household. (She died when I was 6, in 1953.) My childhood memories include visiting Mr. Most, the butcher, and the Alexandrias' grocery store. On Sundays we would sometimes visit with other friends from the Old Country (which I thought was Germany) and they would sit and visit in German together. We brought home live chickens from the farmers' market and she killed them in the basement, making pastry brushes from the feathers, using every part of the bird. She did not need to read Joy of Cooking to know how to pluck and dress a bird. She made lye soap, and there was a small two burner gas stove in the basement where she canned everything. She made saurkraut,, her own dumplings, bread, noodles. When she died, I was numb and did not grieve until I was in my 20s. Then everything came flooding back, the German prayer she taught me, detailed memories and feelings. In 1982 my husband and I travelled to Winnipeg and a relative in the next generation from my grandmother told the story, the history. He showed us a book published in Ohio in the late 70s with a map of Zichydorf and which family lived in each house. I looked at the family photos from studios in the Old Country and saw the Serbian and Croatian doubled address on them. They put the Ellis Island records online in the 90s and I found the ship's manifest with the 35~ pieces of information about each passenger. I gathered my cousin and my sister's family to make a pilgrimage with me to Ellis Isalnd on the 100-year anniversary of their arrival, 11-22-2008. I think my next step is to go to Zichyfeld and to Setschanfeld where she was born. I'm looking forward to the discussions on this list! (maybe especially the ones about food) Marilyn Hochban McClaskey