oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2007-09 00085

[W. Fred Rump <fredrump(a)gmail.com>]

On 9/28/07, Lisa Niemeyer <lniemeyer(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
> Hi Fred, I feel like you are a friend since I've read so many of your
> postings.  Yes, I was glad to see you were still involved with genealogy
> since the message was a few years old.  In the archived message you
> mentioned you translated it from Hans Juergen Nelke back then.  I also
> wanted to tell you I found a listing of US Civil War veterans from the
> Teutopolis area and of the 34 names one of them was a Henry Rump. Anyhow if
> you're interested I can get you more info.  So is this a relative of yours?
>

Does one ever leave genealogy once the bug has taken hold? Not really.
We just lay low for a while or go to other lines, right? It's a
disease that stays till the end and one hopes that it catches the
heirs to finish what we couldn't.

I stopped in at Teutopolis a couple years ago and was quite
disappointed not to find a German presence there anymore. A few stores
still carried the old Oldenburger names but in the church one wouldn't
even know it was started by Germans.  I guess time erases everything.

As to Rump, it's quite a common name in northern Germany and is
scattered about in lots of other places. Since my dad was adopted by a
Rump, the name is not really a genetic line for me to follow. I'm
really a Wienrich from the Neustadt/Harz. :-) But my dad and my wife
grew up in Essen, therefore the interest.

Fred




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