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W. Fred Rump
Re: [OL] Oldenburg History		 Datum 2008/01/25 10:31:07
Werner Honkomp
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2008/01/25 07:46:26
W. Fred Rump
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2008/01/21 17:09:25
Werner Honkomp
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Werner Honkomp
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Re: [OL] Oldenburg History

Date: 2008/01/25 10:31:06
From: Werner Honkomp <werner(a)honkomp.de> 

You asked for the reason of emigration from the Oldenburg province:

"If you have enough bread, stay here, you don´t have to go only for the butter to America."

See also this links:

http://www.heimatverein-steinfeld.de/history/emigration.html

http://www.honkomp.de/geschichte/tegen.htm

http://www.honkomp.de/damme-auswanderung/chapter3.htm

I hope it helps,
Werner Honkomp


> Love all the stories about Oldenburg during the World Wars.

> My ancestors all emigrated before that, though.  One of the reasons I
> started getting seriously into genealogy was to find out why.

> The German community in central Missouri that was formed from this
> emigration started in the mid 1800's, and I suppose it was mainly do to
> the German Revolution of 1848 and subsequent rise to power of Otto von
> Bismarck and the Prussians, or the Deutsches Kaiserreich.

> What was the environment like in Oldenburg during this time period that
> caused so much emigration?

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