This post contains the content of the ManyRoads Newsletter: Welcome to the first ManyRoads Newsletter! First let me thank everyone for signing up to our little ‘news’ service. I promise not to over crowd your email with tons of messages. My intention is to write one or two of these per month. Each will attempt [...]
The following Rabideau-Henss Family branches are publicly accessible. (Unfortunately not all of our genealogical data is available to the entire ManyRoads readership.) Deyo Branch Senger Branch More information and historical perspectives on our family branches may also be found on their individual ‘topic’ pages. Deyo Senger n.b.: Effective 16 April 2010 access to our old [...]
source: courtesy Fred Rump In 1783, Moses Simon paid 40,000 Thaler to the city to earn protection and the rights to compete with his Christian counterparts in Elbing for himself and his descendants. (Schutz = protection and Juden= Jews) By 1812, 33 such families had settled in Elbing. Most had paid a fee to the [...]
Like most genealogists, we are continually in search of additional information. As you may notice, not only do we have information on hundreds of historical documents and genealogical sources, but we also have a library of images and texts that we freely share with our readers. As with all genealogical efforts, this site will be [...]
The Senger family had lived in Kreis Elbing/ Kreis Grosses Werder/ Kreis Danzig area of Prussia since the late 1600’s, perhaps longer. Both of 20th Century World Wars took a heavy toll on the entire ‘clan’. Many family members died or were enslaved; and all of the Senger family lands and possessions, except those which [...]
In addition to Luise Senger who joined the Deutsche Luftwaffe towards the end of World War 2, numerous friends and family members of the Senger family were either inducted into or volunteered for German military service. Below are the photos of those we have in our collection. If you happen to know any of these [...]
The area from around Elbing and Zeyer from which the Senger family came was land most anciently known to have been settled by Pogesanians, Pomesanians and Pomerelians.
The following German films from the “Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen” are very disturbing and unfortunately true. They retell and frame the greatest ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen- that of the Germans from their homes & lands located in Eastern parts of Europe. Dieser Völkermord als ein Komplex schwerer Menschenrechtsverletzung samt begleitender Maßnahmen wird als [...]
Dieser Eintrag stammt von Elena Schlottau (*1991) Ergebnisse eines Interviews mit Frau C. T.(*1937) Die damals 7-jährige C. T. erzählt von der Flucht aus Wormditt im ehemaligen Ostpreußen. Original Source (used under Fair Use Laws) Das Leben in Ostpreußen kurz vor der Flucht Ich bin damals in Wormditt aufgewachsen, im früheren Ostpreußen. Mein Vater wurde [...]
Dieser Eintrag stammt von Jacqueline Kayser (*1988) Ergebnisse eines Interviews mit Anni (*1926) Original Source (used under Fair Use Laws) Anni, geboren im Jahre 1926, lebte zur Zeit der Machtergreifung Adolf Hitlers mit ihren Eltern und ihren Geschwistern auf einem Gutshof in der Nähe der Stadt Gumbinnen in Ostpreußen. Ihr Vater war dort als Gutsverwalter [...]
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