Re: Looking for our family
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Looking for our family
Lisa Flohr 1/19/09
There is not town of Portview in PA, so I'm not sure what area you are asking about.
My Flohr relatives immigrated from a town that in present day Serbia that was settled by Germans. My great-great grandparents immigrated from the same town, on the same ship, and my grandmother said she was a German, and my grandfather said he was a Hungarian/Croation - the country changed right about the time they immigrated. It was also once a part of some other countries in the past 100 years as well. There was a genocide in that area in the 1950s were everyone who said they were German on the last census was sent to death camps as payback for what the Nazi's did. That's why I have such trouble tracking down living distant cousins.
There were a lot of german settlements on the Danube River, and even people who lived there for several generations would call themselves German, rather than the nationality of whatever country their land to belonged to. So you might want to look into the possibility of Danube Swabians too. - I know many "Germans" from Neu pasua, moved to Western PA, in particular Sharon, PA. I can't comment on where the other settlements tended to immigrate to though.
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Re: Looking for our family
Lisa Flohr 1/22/09