Hi, I'm Erik (Introduction)

Question

I've been researching my Dutch and German roots for about twenty years. As a first-generation immigrant to the USA, I've been very fortunate that the Frisians have been so proactive in making records available online (both my grandfathers came from Friesland.)  I expect that my grandmother's lines will be more difficult to research remotely; one came from the Gumbinnen area of Ostpreussen and the other from Silesia (formerly Freiburg and Breslau, currently Świebodzice and Wrocław.)

I'm looking forward to participating in this one-tree project and am surprised that it's taken so long for this task to be attempted.

Comments

Glad to meet you, Erik ... and happy to have you part of us!!!

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Welcome to you. Most of the places you mentioned I've never heard of. That's a good thing.

Betty

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Hi Erik very welcome to Wikitree and the Dutch Roots Project , great to see you here :)

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Welkom Erik, bij het Dutch Roots Project.

Bedankt voor je aanbod om ons te helpen. Wij zien je hulp graag tegemoet en wij zullen binnenkort contact opnemen om te overleggen op welke wijze je het beste kunnen inzetten.

 

Welcome Erik, with the Dutch Roots Project.

Thanks for your offer to help us. We look forward to your help. will soon contact you to discuss how you can best deploy.

Greetings Joop van Belzen.

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Hallo Erik!

Welcome to WikiTree and the Dutch Roots. I m sorry I m a bit slow but not less enthousiastic you join us.

Tip at WikiTree: Keep asking, asking, asking :)

And enjoy!

And yes my ancestors from my fathers side lived around Schwerin Germany (East German for a while and parts now Poland too) and it s hard to get dates. Just add what you have and we can only hope we will get help from members living over there.

A.

Answer 1

Welcome Erik

We have some projects here you may want to check out:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Projects#Dutch_Roots

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Projects#German_Roots