Thank you to the listers that have contributed to this subject. I am from Australia and not one German tradition has been passed down. I guess 1864 is too far back for anything to be handed down. My early Germans from Sch-Holstein all married other German families but many of the next generation married the Irish and Scottish farmers. All I can remember is a traditional Australian Christmas spread. So thank you for the history, Kerry -------------------------------------------------- From: "Maggie Nelson" <maggiebly@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 2:40 PM To: <schleswig-holstein-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] How was Christmas celebrated? > Dave, we had something called gritvous that we ate. It was made of > cracklings, oatmeal and raisins. We didn't have it for Christmas but > only when my mom was willing to make it. Is that anything like the > gritwurst? > > > On Dec 24, 2011, at 9:30 PM, dave koenig wrote: > >> >> What some called the fritters by one name, we called them Ferden. >> Nearly all on both mother and father's side were from Schleswig- >> Holstein coming to Scott Co. Iowa. My Grandpa Koenig was born in >> Burg, Dithmarschen. Besides the Ferden, which I just made for our >> Christmas Eve meal, we also had gritwurst. It is called by other >> names also. That was our traditional Christmas Eve meal, Ferden and >> gritwurst. Now in South Carolina I have located a place to get >> gritwurst for next year. Froeliche Weihnachten. Dave Koenig >>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:05:45 -0800 >>> From: jlrasch@yahoo.com >>> To: schleswig-holstein-roots@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] How was Christmas celebrated? >>> >>> Christmas Greetings, Can anyone direct me to a website or other >>> documentation of how the people of Schleswig celebrated Christmas? >>> Did they have predominately German cultural practices or Danish? >>> My family, who were Lutheran, settled initially in Western Iowa. >>> My Great Aunts and Uncles told of how they were not allowed to see >>> the Christmas tree or the gifts below it until Christmas morning. >>> In fact I do not believe that the tree was even put up until >>> Christmas eve. They had real candles that they lit on the branches >>> too. I assume they went to mass that morning but am not sure as >>> religion and faith were not talked of any more than politics. My >>> Grandpa was a baker and so I assume there were lots of baked >>> goodies to be enjoyed. >>> My Dad was rather particular as to how the whole tree decorating >>> happened too. I am wondering if this was a result of the >>> depression era or if it has roots in his heritage. >>> (Rasch, Pieper, Thomsen, Thomssen, Lorensen, Evers, Trede, >>> Thiedemann, Hitscher) >>> >>> John Rasch(Rootsweb Family Trees: Bartley2007 // Schleswig towns: >>> Kiesbyfeld, Lindaukamp, Kius, Boren / USA: Davenport, IA; - Scott >>> Co. IA; - Minden, IA; Denver, Co; - Herrick, SD; - Greeley, NE; - >>> Milwaukee, WI >>> Merry ChristmasJohn >>> "...which He prepared..." Ephesians 2 >>> ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >>> Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: >>> http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCHLESWIG- >>> HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >> Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: >> http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCHLESWIG- >> HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: > http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message