Hi Rose, Thanks for your message. The topic of inter-denominational marriages is very interesting. I was very surprised to find Lutheran Johann Dietrich marrying Catholic Christina Querin in Kula. I had felt that at that time they may have still though of those of other faiths as "heretics". Not so uncommon now. I was baptized Catholic and my German wife, Lutheran. My mother (a Dietrich of North Dakota) was Lutheran and my father was Catholic. Same with my wife's family in Germany. Her father was Catholic and her mother was Lutheran (Evangelich). I'm surprised at the number of list members here who's family immigrated to Pennsylvania. I thought the majority of Donauschwaben in the USA went to the Cleveland Ohio region. Re: my DNA test on Ancestry.com, I am getting many DNA matches from Pennsylvania -- many from Berks County. I had thought these were people related through the Palatine Migration in the 1700s. Now I'm wondering if some of them are Donauschaben. Of course whenever my DNA matches have many family members born and raised in North and South Dakota, I know they are from my Germans from Russia ancestors. Of course I'm trying to trace them further back to the Batschka and to Germany. BTW, I am getting some matches on my German side which the surname Hughes and I assumse an ancestor married someone with the Hughes surname. Do you have a Semlak family book? Any Dietrichs there? Kind regards, Kelly ________________________________ From: Rose Mary Keller Hughes <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:54 AM To: 'John Haumann'; 'Kelly Dazet' Subject: RE: [DVHH] Response to all Roll Call messages. My parents were from Semlak--she was Lutheran and he was Calvinist. They were married in the US--having come separately to PA. My uncle often said that if they had remained in Semlak they would not have been married. Eventually that feeling stopped. It was surprising but then I have heard that parents haven't been too happy here in the US when their children married outside their Protestant faith. Rose Mary Hughes -----Original Message----- From: DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Haumann via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 4:37 PM To: Kelly Dazet <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DVHH] Response to all Roll Call messages. Kelly, I suspect inter-religion marriages were not that uncommon. My father was originally from a Catholic village (Palanka) and my mother from a Lutheran village (Sekitsch). John Haumann ===== On Jan 15, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Kelly Dazet via DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES wrote: > Hi everyone! > > > I have found all of the Roll Call messages and responses extremely interesting! There have been so many villages and names that I've not been familiar with. I have the impression that most are Catholic villages and families. Whereas our Donaushaben were Lutheran and probably came later to Hungary. I know our families must have come about 1885-1886 to the Batschka. So the villages that I'm most familiar with are Kischker, Tscherwenka, Werbass, Torshau, Jarick, and Sekitsch. > > > I do have some questions about all of this: > > > From 1786 onward, how religion segregated were our Donauschaben ancestors and how common would inter-religion marriages have been? > > > I ask this because my hypothetical ancestor Johann Burghard Dietrich * 1769, who was Lutheran living in Kischker married a Catholic Christina Querin in Kula in 1788 (according to the Kula OSB). I can't find any more information about this couple nor about their parents. Did they move to another village? I assume they lived in Kischker. > > > Does anyone have information about this couple living in any other Donauschaben village? Could be Lutheran, could be Catholic. Or information about Johann Burghard's parents Michael Dietrich, his wife Maria Gertraud Hoffmann or their other son Johann Matthais Dietrich? > > > Thank you! > > > Kind regards, > > > Kelly ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avast.com%2Fantivirus&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1d95f5ec7da4dd59e2d08d55ca59fc8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636516788770717865&sdata=DD1EuUvM9qRlzslOsZ8vdTR2PVUJsO70Hev%2FShzEm3A%3D&reserved=0