CHAT: Schleswig-Holstein (was Re: CHAT: silly names)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 24, 2001, 22:54 |
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:58:35PM +0100, Mangiat wrote:
> Henrik wrote:
> > The reformation was rejected by the people of Schleswig-Holstein, but
> > was then still introduced for conformance with the federation.
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> Oh, yeah... my teacher comes from Schleswig Holstein and is very proud about
> that : )
Hey, I have ancestors from there. I'd like to learn more about it and its
ties to Germany and Denmark. I know that it was sometimes part of one,
sometimes part of the other. According to my mom, my grandfather was
emphatic that his father was Danish, *not* German, but his name has come
down to us as Heinrich Wehrhane (or something like that), which looks
definitely German. I've looked a little bit on genealogy web sites and found
a discussion list for Wehrhane, and found out that there are Danish people
who spell the same name Verhane. So I don't know if the name we have for him
is German because it was under German control at the time, or what.
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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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