10.07.08
Poje/Knauss
Lori and Bill (wahooka@comcast.net) write: “Looking for information on Anton Poje or Rose Knauss, my grandparents from Podpreska”.
Contact them directly if you can help!
09.13.08
I wanted to share this wonderful school picture with the Gottscheer community who frequent this website. Does anyone know the history of the photographer, R. Verderber? Was he based out of the city of Gottschee? Any comments on the approximate year of the photo, location, and who the teacher and students might be are welcome. The scan of the name is from the photo back.
Sorry, the photo is so huge. I’ve tried several times to fix the posting but I can’t seem to get it right. Helmuth if you have any suggestions for me please let me know.
Thanks.
08.19.08
John Lackner
From Frank Schmuck, we note the passing of John Lackner of Richmond, BC. Click on the images below for the obituary and a nice letter from Arvena Tokarek.
08.17.08
Wanting to meet relatives online
I am begining to think I am related to all Gottscheers. My dad was Francis Leo Nick of Kansas. Grandpa, John Nick, Grandmother Mary Stimpfl both from Gottschee. an Great Uncles, Mathias and Karl Nick. Great Grandfather Johann Nick and Great grandmother Gertrude Roschitsch from Scaflein house #9. Anybody out there I’m related too?
Photo Identification Required
The above picture is from Herbert Otterstadt’s book, Gottschee eine Deutsche Volksinsel im Sudosten, published in 1941. If you have the book, could you please tell me what the caption is, in English. Thanks very much.
Kathy R.
08.04.08
Al Schmuck
Al Schmuck of Whistler, BC has passed away. Al was the younger brother of Frank Schmuck who contributes regularly on this site.
Sincere condolences to everyone in the family. Here is a link to the Whistler Q magazine with Al Schmuck’s obituary.
http://www.whistlerquestion.com/article/20080730/WHISTLER01/859806752
07.10.08
Pittsburgh arena site
Sorry for the diversion…for those interested, this photo (taken with my cell phone) shows the site for the new Pittsburgh multi-purpose arena.
06.06.08
VerveEarth
You may have noticed the VerveEarth logo on the sidebar of this blog. VerveEarth is a community that adds blogs to a map, so that you can “see” blogs and authors geographically.
I have this blog situated in Kocevje, for instance. It’s a neat site and a great idea, I think. Enjoy browsing.
04.05.08
Video: Schicksalswege der Gottschee
We are fortunate that Mr. Meditz continues to provide excellent videos. This installment, originally from Austrian Radio and Television (ORF), is thirty minutes long and again tells the story of Gottschee. Professionally done and excellent quality.
How about a big hand for Ted Meditz…thanks again for all you do to share the story of Gottschee.
http://hwk.best.vwh.net/binaries/schicksalswege_der_gottschee.mpg
This video is about 300 mb and about thirty minutes.
03.24.08
More video on Gottschee from Ted Meditz
Our friend from Germany, Mr. Ted Meditz continues to amaze with his collection of videos he so graciously shares. This video is called “Die Deutsche Sprachinsel in Sudosteurope”.
Sharing from his letter to me, this video was written and produced in the early ’60’s by Joseph Rubner and was sponsored by Bund der Vertriebenen (Organization of Refugees). Ted found this 16 mm black and white film in the Sudeten Deutschen Archive in Munich in 1993. He then obtained permission from the Sudetendeutschen Landmannschaft to transfer the film to S-VHS. Ted then transferred this to DVD, sent it to me, and I further transferred to MPG format. The quality is remarkable. Some of the sequences were filmed in the 1930’s during the 600th anniversary of Gottschee.
Bravo Mr. Meditz for your hard work to maintain our heritage.
http://hwk.best.vwh.net/binaries/deutsche_sprachinsel.mpg
Once again, allow time for the download (111 mb).
02.17.08
Video of 2005 Gottscheer Treffen
Once again, we thank Mr. Ted Meditz of Germany for another great video, this one produced by local regional television (ARF), of the 2005 Gottscheer Treffen in Bad Aussee, Austria.
http://hwk.best.vwh.net/binaries/treffen.mpg
Allow time for the video to download (about 100 Mb.) Running time is slightly over ten minutes.
01.20.08
Video: Die Letzten Gottscheer in Slowenien
Mr. Ted Meditz brings us another great video in German. This one is a report from Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting) on the last remaining Gottscheer inhabitants of the homeland. Fascinating piece and thank you once again Ted for bringing it to us.
http://hwk.best.vwh.net/binaries/Die%20Letzten%20Gottscheer%20in%20Slowenien.mpg
(Note, the video is 90mb, so it may take a while to download. Running time is about ten minutes).
01.18.08
Scientific collaboration for disentangling Gottcheers demographic history
Barcelona, 17th January 2008
Dear Sir, Madame,
My name is Begoña Martinez Cruz. Me and my colleagues are contacting you in our capacity as Group Leaders for the Western and Central Europe division of the Genographic Project (www.genographic.com). The Objective of the Genographic project, launched jointly by The National Geographic Society and IBM, is to collect samples representative of human population diversity from all around the world in order to describe with accuracy the movement of humankind since their origin in addition to gathering more information on the expansion and colonisation of habitable continents. The ultimate aim in other words is to unravel our migration history as species. Within Genographic, the Western and Central European team has as its goal the collection of at least 10,000 samples from around Europe (100 male individuals per population selected) to ensure adequate coverage of the genetic diversity in our continent, with special attention given to particular populations such as the Aromums, Gottcheers or Roma.
With this aim in mind, we are interested in using genetics to answer questions related to the history of your population, the Gottscheers. At this point, and as you can read in the Genographic web page, genetic tools can help in disentangling the past demographic history of populations and ethnic groups. Our objective would be to collaborate in reconstructing that history, of course with the help of historical records or even oral tradition that would be very interesting for us. For such purpose, we would need your collaboration. In fact, what we would need is a small sample of DNA from non related males, pure Gottscheers (i.e. with Gottscheer ancestors). For this, in case you accept, we would send you a commercial kit with a swab with which you would need to scrub your mouth and keep it in the provided recipient, following the manufacturer indications. Of course, we would pay for all the fees for sending and getting the kits back to Barcelona. The results obtained from those samples would be published in specialized scientific publications, were you will be specifically acknowledged. In any case, the study would be anonymous, that is, each individual would be assigned a number and no name or personal information would be published or even kept. We would only keep each individual and its ancestor’s origins and sex of the individual associated with the number assigned.
If you are interested, we would be also very happy to go to give you a talk about our work about your population, and discuss on them with you, which would be undoubtedly very useful.
Of course, the sampling must be in conform with the ethical framework established in the Genographic project that includes a signed consent by every donor and the complete information about what would be done with the sample, that would never been used with a medical purpose. If you agree we would send you this ethical protocol for you to be completely informed.
We would be very grateful if you could transmit our interests and the information to any other member of the population.
We expect you would be happy to join our project and please feel free to ask us about any doubt you can have. We expect your answer to your earliest convenience. Please, send your answers to my mail addres and the one of my colleagues’, written below in the signature.
Sincerely,
The Western-Central European Genographic team
Dr. Jaume Bertranpetit e-mail: jaume.bertranpetit@upf.edu
Dr. David Comas e-mail: david.comas@upf.edu
Dr. Begoña Martínez-Cruz e-mail: begonya.martinez@upf.edu
Evolutionary Biology Unit
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
01.09.08
Blog Theme Change
Hopefully you will find this layout easy to read and use.
There are some new features on the sidebar like Recent Posts and Recent Comments. As always, if you have any problems or questions, feel free to email me or leave a comment.
01.07.08
Paulussen, Jeschelnig, Lakota, Mallner, Weber
I just recently found the Gottscheer Bulletin Board.
My name is Brittany Keyak, from Pennsylvania
I am the great great granddaughter of a Johann Jeschelnig (1869-1941) and Maria (Lakota) Jeschelnig (1877-1904)
Maria’s parents were Stefan Lakota and Katharina Mallner.
Johann’s parents were Mathias Jeschelnig and Katharina Weber
Johann and Maria had 3 daughters, Anna Jeschelnig, Josefa Jeschelnig, and Maria Jeschelnig, and a son Hans Jeschelnig.
Anna married a Heinrich Johann Paulussen (from Dorfbroich, Germany) . They emmigrated to the US and are laid to rest in Pennsylvania
They have 3 sons, Edward Bruce, Franklin D.R., and Heinrich “Harry” Johann III, and 1 daughter, Barbara Ann
Josefa married a Joe Dosch.
They have 2 sons.
Maria “Minnie” married a Karl Erich Roller (from Germany)
They have a daughter Barbara Roller
Hans last known residence was in Russia, and we assume he married a Russian girl.
Looking for more info and possible relatives.