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Subject: Re: Perrin / Penning: a begging letter
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 13:32:43 +0200


At 07:37 PM 10/2/98 +0100, Eleanor Harris wrote:
> Every night, I read the Essex Mailings List. Every night, I read
>joyful postings from people who are thanking others for the receipt of
>wonderful new information about their ancestors. All this happiness &
>success is depressing me. What about me, I say. What about the Perrin
>& Penning family of north-west Essex, I moan. Apart from a few teasing
>bits of info re Perrin & Penning families in, or from, other places, no
>joyful tidings have come my way. I'm almost convinced that all my
>missing Perrin & Penning relatives were amongst the many emigrants who
>drowned at sea on stormy nights.
> This is a begging letter. If anyone has any info on the Perrin or
>Penning families of north-west Essex, no matter how tiny, please send it
>my way. If anyone ever spots a jot of info on these families, please
>remember me. I would love to be one of those subscribers who send in
>postings along the lines of "I just wanted to publicly thank xxx yyyyy
>for the enormous help she has been to me in my family history".
> Jean
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SUBJECT #2 The World Beyond Essex

Hello Jean,

I heard you from afar. Compliments! The squeaking wheel usually gets the
oil, besides considering your past efforts, you are most deserving,
squeaking or not.

In helping German/Americans in the USA, many are shocked to learn they are
indeed not of German, but rather of Austrian/Czech heritage, i.e. the
Sudetenlands of Bohemia and Moravia. The Artist family I am researching,
the famous watercolorist BRUHL OF ENGLISH fame, has roots deep in the
Bukovina (Romania, the Ukraine, parts of Poland, etc...,, places people
went 'from', rather than 'to' as with, Canada, America, Australia...., and
little Essex.

And yes.., there is indeed a BUKOVINA List, run by someone's ggg grandchild
in upstate New York (USA) at Cornell University. This obvious point for any
'genealogy-disrespecting' spouse: Genealogy leads to culture, to history,
to geography, to languages, even to smaller, local museums of Scarsborough
fame. Genealogy is just another type of school (for big kids).

When I read "Perrin" yesterday, I thought, 'French'; and Penning,
Austrian/German/Czech.

German Tel. has the following:

PERRIN - ca 70+- listings. Among them are several French-sounding Christian
names: Jean-Pierre, Jean-Luc, Emlie, etc. (I did not look in France/Belgium.)

PENNING - 420+- listings (I did not check out Austria/Switzerland/The
Czech Republic/Hungary.)

Personal experience (am not a professional researcher) for searching the
non-famous, has favored MY own phone calls/letters, rather than expecting
help from outside, i.e. help without myself intruding first. However, over
15 years, distant cousins have begun contacting ME, bringing their trails
of research (connecting g. great grandparents) with them.

My suggestion: try the Continental Europeans for roots beyond (if
interested). English, thanks to you folks (via either good manners or guns)
is the international language; you need not put off writing. If a recipient
can't read your words, a neighbor or grandchild can help.

I'll guess by Sunday pm, Jean you'll have had more than enough 'help'.

cst
Catherine Lincoln
Postfach 61
38316 Hornburg
Germany - where today, 3.October, is our national holiday, 'Tag der
Deutschen Einheit'- Day of German Unification - 1989 was the year the wall
and long, double fences came down, (and taxes went up.)

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