----- Original Message ----- From: MESSEAR To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 3:38 PM Subject: MESSEAR Results on 02-20-2001 07:39:07 Your MESSEAR account uses [email protected] as the email address. Please use that address for any changes at MESSEAR. +OK Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:33:38 -0500 Reply-To: Mattie Mitchell <[email protected]> From: Mattie Mitchell <[email protected]> Subject: Dialects of our ancestors <<<===--- To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------v Found: |huff --------------------------------------------------------------^ MESSEAR ver. 2.09agh www.edelsoft.net/messear Dear Listers, A family story about my female ancestors is that after they came to America, they spoke a dialect or language called Plod or Plat that was about half-German and half-Polish, and were rebuked by their husbands because they were only supposed to speak High German. They all came from the Gostynin, Poland area, near the Vistula by Plock. Has anyone ever heard anything or can tell me about it?? Mattie Mitchell RESEARCHING in Gostynin District Poland: Scheler, Schultz, Kasper, Weiss, -->Myslak, Schoning, Bohm, Kryger, Riemer, Huff, Gust, Nikkel, Pryer, Brand, -------------------------------------------^^^^ Rygebrecht, Jost, Wall, Fischbuch, Hohenstein. ~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~ +OK Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:06:48 -0500 Reply-To: [email protected] From: terry <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Dialects of our ancestors <<<===--- To: [email protected] In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------v Found: |huff --------------------------------------------------------------^ MESSEAR ver. 2.09agh www.edelsoft.net/messear language and linguistics info on german-russian-portal.org, search under Plattdeutsch Plattdeutsch was the dominate dialect until the reformation...more at the web site... | -----Original Message----- | From: Germans from Russia Genealogy and Family Research | [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nelson Itterman | Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:52 PM | To: [email protected] | Subject: Re: Dialects of our ancestors | | | Hi Mattie: | My dictionary says Platt or Plattdeutsch is Low German. | Nelson | | Mattie Mitchell wrote: | | > Dear Listers, | > A family story about my female ancestors is that | after they came to | > America, they spoke a dialect or language called Plod or | Plat that was about | > half-German and half-Polish, and were rebuked by their | husbands because they | > were only supposed to speak High German. They all came | from the Gostynin, | > Poland area, near the Vistula by Plock. Has anyone ever | heard anything or | > can tell me about it?? | > | > Mattie Mitchell | > RESEARCHING in Gostynin District Poland: Scheler, | Schultz, Kasper, Weiss, -->| > Myslak, Schoning, Bohm, Kryger, Riemer, Huff, Gust, -----------------------------------------------^^^^ | Nikkel, Pryer, Brand, | > Rygebrecht, Jost, Wall, Fischbuch, Hohenstein. | ~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~ +OK Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:09:47 -0600 Reply-To: Michael Miller <[email protected]> From: Michael Miller <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Dialects of our ancestors (fwd) <<<===--- To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------v Found: |huff --------------------------------------------------------------^ MESSEAR ver. 2.09agh www.edelsoft.net/messear ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:41:08 -0600 From: Michael Miller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dialects of our ancestors To: [email protected] Mattie, Please to to the GRHC website at the "Introduction" section, and then go to the "Bibliography" section where you will find the Basic Bibliography and the Advanced Bibliography relating to Germans from Russia dialect study. I would recommend that you carefully review this section for valuable references and resources. The bibliographies were prepared in 2000. Michael Michael M. Miller, Bibliographer Germans from Russia Heritage Collection North Dakota State University Libraries P.O. Box 5599 Fargo, ND 58105-5599 USA Tel: 701-231-8416 Fax: 701-231-7138 E-mail: [email protected] Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Website: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc Personal Home Page: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/biography.html On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Mattie Mitchell wrote: > Dear Listers, > A family story about my female ancestors is that after they came to > America, they spoke a dialect or language called Plod or Plat that was about > half-German and half-Polish, and were rebuked by their husbands because they > were only supposed to speak High German. They all came from the Gostynin, > Poland area, near the Vistula by Plock. Has anyone ever heard anything or > can tell me about it?? > > Mattie Mitchell > RESEARCHING in Gostynin District Poland: Scheler, Schultz, Kasper, Weiss, -->> Myslak, Schoning, Bohm, Kryger, Riemer, Huff, Gust, Nikkel, Pryer, Brand, ---------------------------------------------^^^^ > Rygebrecht, Jost, Wall, Fischbuch, Hohenstein. > ~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~ #### Visit our sponsor ################################################# # what kind of book are you looking for? # # Hard to find # # Out of print # # Check out Barnes & Noble # ##################### at http://www.edelsoft.net/messear/ads/bn.htm #### 3 messages found for you after searching 1071 messages. -----------------------------------------------------------------------v MESSEAR search results are sent to you because you subscribed to the MESSEAR system. 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