Keine Angst! ... It´s just a message about a "Germany Forum"

[Angela Shelley]

48percenter had a great idea and suggested starting a "Germany Forum".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=194x803
Please add your name to the thread if you are interested in tantalizing discussion about Germany! :toast:


A slice of American life has a German filling.

On October 6, 1683, the first 13 German families arrived aboard the small ship "Concord", the "German Mayflower".

They founded Germantown in Pennsylvania and in 1688 issued the first manifesto against slavery.

Over seven million German immigrants followed.

Today more that one fourth of the population of the United States claims German ancestry.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Mein Urgrossvater kommt aus Hannover

and I can still speak (much better than write) a smattering of German. Like most Americans from the Midwest, I have a lot of German ancestry. That anti-slavery thing was still strong at the outset of the Civil War, btw. The main reason Missouri stayed in the Union were the Germans in and around St. Louis. And there were German companies and regiments during the Civil War, among them the German Guides from the South Suburban Chicago area--had a great great grandfather and two uncles in that group.

[Angela Shelley]

2. Good for you, and for your Urgrossvater!

I knew that we had something in common :-)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Danke fuer Buchstabieren

Spelling was never one of my strong suits....but since I haven't written much German since I studied it in high school 40 years ago, you'll have to forgive me.

[Angela Shelley]

4. Buchstabieren is one of my strengths.

You get a good grade for your memory and a good grade for courage.

[Eurobabe]

5. Hey, maybe we are related?

My grandfather's father was from Hannover, and his mother was from Magdeburg?

:hi:

[Angela Shelley]

7. Hey 48percenter, thanks for joining the crowd.

:-)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

27. Could be

Henry was from Hoyerhagen, a town that is very small and so rural that there is only a gravel road to the town. My brother was stationed in Germany while in the Army and visited the towns where we knew our ancestors were from. One was a small village in the Black Forest. Brother asked a local if anyone with our great-great grandfather's surname lived there. "Yes, half the town has that name." Then he asked about our great-great grandmother's surname. The answer? "That's the other half of the town." :rofl:

[Eurobabe]

6. Oh, Germantown is a lovely area of Philly

IIRC. Some gorgeous old homes there.

There are other people in one of the forums (discussion group, perhaps Dems Abroad?) who have expressed an interest in a German Forum, we need 10 people with donor stars.

Speaking of... :hi:

[Angela Shelley]

9. Maybe we should post this in the middle of the night

when those guys have finished eating their Muesli.

[Eurobabe]

11. Notice anything?

:D

[Angela Shelley]

12. Ich liebe Dich, Ich liebe Dich, Ich liebe Dich!

Thank you, 48percenter, for taking care of the administrative details so that I now have a donor star, a donor star, a donor star.

[Eurobabe]

13. My pleasure :))

So now we can round up the peeps in the other forum and get this party started!

[Angela Shelley]

14. BYOB and BYOP

Looking forward to it!

[Eurobabe]

15. Prost!

:toast:

[JackRiddler]

8. Hiermit befuerworte ich dein Vorschlag. nt

[Angela Shelley]

10. I knew it, I knew it, JackRiddler rocks!

[leftofthedial]

16. Ach du lieber!

Gott im Himmel!

Ich habe jetzt keine Angst.


But I did recently find my old lederhosen.

[Angela Shelley]

19. When was the last time you wore them in public?

[leftofthedial]

20. 1969

:rofl:

:blush:

[Angela Shelley]

21. Were they real short and black, or knee-length green ones?

[leftofthedial]

28. real short

but kind of tannish-beigish

[Angela Shelley]

31. probably real attractive. Long Live Lederhose!

When we have a Germany forum, you can post a picture, OK?

[Squatch]

17. Only if, instead of calling it the "Germany Forum" it's called the "Stammtisch"

[Angela Shelley]

18. Good idea, squatch.

I want to sit near the window.

[Squatch]

22. Less smokey over there...

:thumbsup:

[Angela Shelley]

23. sounds like you are good at reading between the lines

... can´t wait to see you again in the new Germany forum.:-)

[Squatch]

24. I practically grew up at the Stammtische of a couple Gaststuben

in and around my hometown of Augsburg. Nothing like falling asleep with your back against the Kachelofen on a cold winter day listening to the murmur of other guests, sipping a Dunkelweizen, and just being totally at ease.

[Eurobabe]

32. Many Bundesländer in Germany are non-smoking now, no worries!

[eilen]

25. My mother came here from Germany in 1950

I still have a grandfather there but he speaks no English. The Stasi frowned on that I guess.

[Angela Shelley]

26. Where does your Grandfather live?

Maybe he´s my neighbor!

There are many older people who do not speak English as a second language, having nothing to do with the government.

[eilen]

30. This was the listing my friend in Hage sent me

I have never met him. My mother and sister went to visit him in 1990 after the wall came down.


Hans Albert Pederzani
Holzmarktstr. 73
10179 Berlin

[Angela Shelley]

29. Guten Morgen: Interested in a Germany Forum?