How British Names Conquered The World

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-31-2006 | Charles Clover

[IronJack]

That is the same neck of the woods my Mom's family comes from. Grandma always says that this branch of the family were Huguenots. Also according to her, my great-grandfather was still in periodic contact with distant relatives that still lived there until the 1920-30's.

Actually, my family emigrated from there to the Odessa area during the reign of Catherine the Great. The Russians in the area were looking for hard-working German farmers to share their agricultural techniques and develop the fertile ground in that region, so the Czarina promised German immigrants free schools, tax-free land for ten years, freedom of religion, and freedom from military conscription. Thousands of Germans settled in areas like Kassel and Neudorf. Then, decimated from the Napoleonic Wars, the Russians decided that the Germans had been exempted long enough, and began to conscript them. My family, along with most of the other expatriates in those districts, fled to the United States.

So the jump back to Alsace is a double hop for me!

[SunkenCiv]

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