Re: scattered children of Menno (was: Re: new guy-& princess bride)

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 TYoder at sschwab_com's cousin wrote:
> my guess is that these are real honest-to-goodness "dutch" mennonites,
> meaning that they are most likely (1) of the Netherland variety, (2) of
> the Netherland variety that moved to Russia, and/or (3) the names of
> german immigrants who joined the dutch mennonites in Russia.

What about names like Sawatzky, which are more Polish-sounding?

> so peter, apparently our ancestors are indeed from different areas of
> europe.  apparently my ancestors are mainly german and swiss.  and to
> think i didn't know this stuff....my father would be mortified!  : )

Heh.  :)

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