family: Comments

Comment on "Snaps Ontario, Calif: Visits with Dirks grandparents"

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:32:05 -0500

The more I ponder the twelfth picture (the one with the "unknown youth"), it doesn't comfortably sit with me that it is my familiar, beloved Oma Mary. Is it Tanta Katja, with the recently late Herman ("Reck")?

- Mary

Comment on "Rundbrief second generation "anchors" are being lost: the third generation now needs to step up"

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:33:47 -0500

Pam, yes it seems very surreal to me, too, that I won't get that e-mail from him or enjoy his wit and insights into society. Ten months later, it is also so strange not to expect updates from Dad. When you organize the next reunion, I will totally attend!

- Mary

Comment on "Rundbrief second generation "anchors" are being lost: the third generation now needs to step up"

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:05:12 -0500

I can't grasp that Reck will not have a letter in the next letter round! His insight into getting the next generation of cousins to keep the Rundbrief going was a gift. I wasn't there but, I learned that the Rundbrief reunion in Kansas organized by Heinz was a delight--I'm imagining another reunion for the next generation one day.

- Pam Krause Sittler

Comment on "Rundbrief second generation "anchors" are being lost: the third generation now needs to step up"

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:27:47 -0500

Reck was one of two people who had encouraged me to acquire a computer. Before that he would write snailmail letters to me. Once I'd actually acquired my own computer and learned to operate it, I began to enjoy frequent e-mails from Reck, each of which I answered. Now that he's no longer sending those, I miss them terribly!

- Metta Ann (Janzen( Lieb

Comment on "Rundbrief second generation "anchors" are being lost: the third generation now needs to step up"

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:00:48 -0500

I am saddened by the death of Reck even though I like you only met him that time in Philly. I have been noting the many recent messages transferred through Metta's emails and the rundbrief. I feel an emotional attachement because of this.
Margie

- Margie Hildebrand

Comment on "3-3"

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:18:52 -0500

What a lovely remembrance of grandma. Actually Grandmas's art lessons as a young person were not at the same time as later art lessons such as tole painting and painting on glass. Those came after I was already gone from home. Love Mom Hons

- Mom hons

Comment on "Making Schput"

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:53:53 -0500

This term was used by my grandparents who were first generation Luxembourgers. It had the same meaning as used here. It is a great word.

- Chris Gaul

Comment on "Where do you fit in the family tree?"

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:33:39 -0500

Looking forward to receivining the rundbrief. My biggest hole is information and pictures of Cornelius Krause, and his family. I have some of his brother Jacob, from Joan Braun. I don't have very good ones of Carl and Agatha Rempel either, butI do have a couple. Karen

- Karen S Jensen

Comment on "I am thankful for...more Batum Story excitement!"

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:52 -0500

I thought the present name of Gnadenfeld is Bogdanova. Does anyone know where Hertzenberg was and what the present name is?

- Karen S Jensen

Comment on "Map of Ancestral Birth Places"

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:35:44 -0500

Mary, I hadn't checked in here for a long time, but was just going through and deleting deletes and ran across the link. I hadn't checked the map before, and appreciate it! Love, Metta

- Metta Ann Lieb

Comment on "I've been granted a "family" gardening second chance"

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:09:35 -0500

Mary

I hope the part I planted survives the incredible heat wave we are having here as chronicled on FaceBook. I still have all manner of iris from the Goldenrod house as the other "heritage cultivars". For years I had a lof of the Hillsboro bamboo but that stuff is too invasive...I finally killed it off.

- Pete Janzen

Comment on "Where do you fit in the family tree?"

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:23:16 -0500

Hi Karen: I believe you are the one who wrote to me about 10 years ago asking for general family information-- I was overwhelmed at the time & didn't know where to start. You only gave your address & no phone number or email address which I would have preferred. Really glad you are in The Rundbrief now!!!! -Pam Sittler in Ontario

- Pam Sittler

Comment on "Where do you fit in the family tree?"

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:03:37 -0500

Mary Dirks Janzen was the younger half sister of my grandmother Susanna Krause Rempel. When Susanna's father died just before they moved from Kleefeld to Gnadenfeld (the wagon was all packed, and Kornelius Krause died suddenly), the widow Agatha Dueck Krause with her 4 young children Cornelius, Jacob, Susanna (my grandmother) and Agatha moved to Gnadenfeld. Later widow Agatha Dueck Krause married the farm manager Heinrich Dirks, and they had 3 more children Marie (Mary), Heinrich (Heinz),and Katharina (Katja) Dirks. I have a picture of the Krause family before they moved to Gnadedfeld.

I am so happy to have found Mary Janzen's blog!

I am working on the family tree at My Heritage.

Karen Jensen

- Karen S Jensen

Comment on "Remembering Mary Senior"

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:31:18 -0500

I wish I still had my sock monkey. I have a friend in Winkler who makes them now out of fancier socks.

- Margie H

Comment on "New York trip: family sites visited and not"

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:26:17 -0500

Good recap of the trip

- Margie Hildebrand

Comment on "Swabians and small worlds"

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:25:18 -0500

Is that where they get the terms "swab the deck", or "cotton swabs"? Hesston, Kansas always seems like such a pristine, tidy town. Must be some non-Swabians (Hesses?) who also have a neat fetish.

- Cathy Bitikofer

Comment on "Batum Story story"

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:35:47 -0500

I have an original copy of the Batum Story, and I also retyped her My Memories onto my computer, because my copy was such a poor ditto copy. I take it you added more information intothe Batum Story? How may I get an updated version?

- Karen S Jensen

Comment on "Making Schput"

Sat, 28 May 2011 22:09:30 -0500

Mary hons,

I asked my support group tonight about the word schput. It seems that the Germans from Germany, (Ernie), the Low Germans and the HIgh Germans and the Schweitzedeitch from Moundridge all use this word. I know I grew up with this word as we used it often at home. By the way I read "A Complicated Kindness" by Miriam Toews.

- Mom hons

Comment on "Where do you fit in the family tree?"

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:32:48 -0500

Dear Mary,

I have on my desk an old typed and spiral-bound book with a blue cover and the words "The Batum Story" across it. I was hoping to get hold of the compiler, who I suspect is Mary Senior :). I have a few questions for you regarding the old book and your new edition of it, but it's probably best to discuss it over e-mail. Could you send a note to thomson.rachel AT gmail.com? I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Blessings,
Rachel

- Rachel Starr Thomson

Comment on "Remembering Mary Senior"

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:13:28 -0500

Mary I sure recall those chicken with corn-flake crumb dinners on Sundays also. I still have those big bowls she would serve the food in. It fell to Deb and I to clean out her aprtment when she went to the nursing home. Another thing she just never threw away was plastic bags of any kind. She had pounds and pounds of them, all sorted, bundled and wrapped. And a massive collection of spices and such. I think we still have a few cans of the spices in packaging that hasn't been used in many decades. Hard to throw that sort of thing away. I spent a lot of money to refurbish her sewing machine and I refinished the cabinet. We gave it to Victoria a few months back, so it has a good home.

Pete

- Pete