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From: "Cai \"Brokan\"" <>
Subject: Re: [DANISH-ROOTS] [DK] Help with death record / Schleswig-Holstein
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:31:44 +1000
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Rich wrote --

*CAVEAT* The history of Schleswig-Holstein (Slesvig-Halsten) is
complex, complicated and confused. The geographic and ethnographic
realities were also.

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For heaps of helpful genealogy info on the area, try these --------


Genealogy in Schleswig Holstein **
http://www.rootdigger.de/index.htm
---- click on the various titles 'Emigrants', 'Maps', 'Archives' 'Names',
'History' --- etc. for heaps ad heaps of Schleswig-Holstein genealogy info.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/colin.swift/history.htm --
-- scroll down to the header"
'Denmark and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein' concise and
informative --

http://www.hans-peter-voss.de/gen/e/history.htm **
'History of Schleswig Holstein" by professional genealogist Hans Peter Voß
(Voss)\
--- this may be a bit lomg but extremely helpful if researching that area.

Don't send them any money -- just use the published information -- it is
superb..


Cai


\"The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in
Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The
second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have
forgotten all about it." (Lord Palmerson)


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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Hansen" <>
>
> >
> On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:31 AM, wrote:
>
>> My Slot surname goes back to the 1700's. I'm sure that someone in my
>> line
>> originally worked at the castle and that's how they got the surname.
>> It was just
>> very surprising to me that they used a surname long before most
>> other Danes
>> but it sure has made my research a lot easier. My great grandfather
>> came to
>> the states in the early 1890's and settled in Massachusetts.
> A few thoughts here
> 1) The change from patronymics came earlier in Slesvig.
> 2) What's to say that it was still a location/occupation determiner
> (there's a word for this but I've forgotten it) even in the early
> 1800's.
> If the middle part of the name has a something -sen and that something
> follows the rules then Slot at least until those patronymics disappear
> wasn't really a surname
> 3) DId you great grandfather move from the Tønder area? I ask because
> after 1864 it wasn't in Denmark. Mind that didn't stop my great-
> grandfather and his family from stating they were Danish when they
> emigrated in 1872.
>

> rich
> --
> BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion
> that you do not entertain. A. Bierce:The Devil's Dictionary
>
> Rich Hansen
> |
>


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