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Subject: Re: New Havana Website/Mohlman
Date: 29 Jun 2004 09:23:49 -0600
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There are no other families in my ancestral tree directly from Veldhausen, but a number of them are from the general area. There are some Hortsmann's from the Bramsche/ Lahrberg area, which isn't too far away. It's interesting that the Mohlman's which I'm currently searching appear to have come from Badbergen, which is in the same area.
I'm not 100% sure of the dialect spoken, but when I visited my German cousins from the Vanderveen line in 1983, I remember quite well her reference to Plattdeutsch when we were discussing the family tree, so I'm assuming that's what they spoke. Prior to moving to America, there was a van der Veen in my line who married a woman from Amsterdam, so their dialect could have been a mixture of Plattdeutsch & Dutch. Veldhausen is so close to the border of Holland that this wouldn't surprise me.
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