Lamorna, seems like a small world when we get on these message boards and make these connections!!
It would be a dream for me to visit our ancestor's homeland. That had to be such an engrossing experience! It's so neat to know there are some "Germans from Russia" in England, too!! It seems we spread all over just to escape the terrible conditions our ancestors lived in. I noticed a map actually shows two different routes the Germans came through and one route actually went right through Krakow. I wonder if that's how you got your Polish in you!?
hehe, part of me feels very British, lol Maybe we should trade places, then you'd be only 400 miles from Randy if you did!! I actually was just in L.A. last October and drove not that far from where it appears he lives (Studio City). Just to think the number of times I've been down there and how close I was each time!! Argh! Anyway, that's a subject in itself!
So cool to meet fellow Germans from Russia "cousins"
We are a unique breed and it's so cool we have such a famous one to represent us! (a few other famous ones are Lawrence Welk, John Denver and Angie Dickinson)