Links to history
I have been doing some research on our family roots and really it boils down
to Swedish, Bohemian and Prussian,
well sort of.
You start to see some blurriness and nomadic activity which I suppose was my biggest first surprise.
Somehow it seemed people back then, would have just stayed put somewhere, forever.
The links below are roughly organized, the first group are about Bishop Hill and our Swedish ancestors. Then Bohemian, then Prussian.
They really apply to many descendants of immigrants from Europe between 1830 and 1880.
Escaping religious constraints, economic pressures, forced military service, joblessness,
population growth, they came to the U.S.
Go back a bit farther in European history and you see the oppression, conquering, disease, slavery.
It took the Teutonic knights over 50 years to kill half the Prussians. Did all that strengthen those who were born before me, my source?
Bishop Hill History
http://archive.org/stream/100yearshistoryo00ande/100yearshistoryo00ande_djvu.txt
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht629902.html
http://www.thezephyr.com/backtrack/failedutopia.htm
http://bqc.wikispaces.com/Values,+Women,+Communism,+and+the+Rise+and+Fall+of+the+Bishop+Hill+Utopia+in+Illinois
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-1955winter/ishs-1955winter-466.pdf
Describes the trip for Gold Rush
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/bord_casebook.htm
Describes Bigfoot sighting…about 28 down Myrtengreen
http://www.illinoisancestors.org/henry/bobslist.html
List of Henry co residents
http://www.neabigread.org/books/myantonia/teachers/cather_handout02.pdf
Study guide Swedish and Bohemian immigrants
http://www.lwvil.org/downloadimm/lwvil_immigration_study_first_packet.pdf
History of Illinois Settlement
http://onwardtoourpast.com/Czech
About Bohemia History
http://www.enotes.com/topic/History_of_Slovakia
For Slovakia history
http://prusowie.pl/historia/who_were_the_prussians.php
Some Prussian history
"The German is like a willow.
No matter which way you bend him,
he will always take root again."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -
More specifically about Gerd Vor Der Mark:
http://keepersthe.blogspot.com/2007/10/johann-hindrich-johann-auf-der-heides.html
Where did they come from in the middle ages and made their name?
For some related people (some written in German):
http://www.whilgedieck.homepage.t-online.de/
I have been doing some research on our family roots and really it boils down
to Swedish, Bohemian and Prussian,
well sort of.
You start to see some blurriness and nomadic activity which I suppose was my biggest first surprise.
Somehow it seemed people back then, would have just stayed put somewhere, forever.
The links below are roughly organized, the first group are about Bishop Hill and our Swedish ancestors. Then Bohemian, then Prussian.
They really apply to many descendants of immigrants from Europe between 1830 and 1880.
Escaping religious constraints, economic pressures, forced military service, joblessness,
population growth, they came to the U.S.
Go back a bit farther in European history and you see the oppression, conquering, disease, slavery.
It took the Teutonic knights over 50 years to kill half the Prussians. Did all that strengthen those who were born before me, my source?
Bishop Hill History
http://archive.org/stream/100yearshistoryo00ande/100yearshistoryo00ande_djvu.txt
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht629902.html
http://www.thezephyr.com/backtrack/failedutopia.htm
http://bqc.wikispaces.com/Values,+Women,+Communism,+and+the+Rise+and+Fall+of+the+Bishop+Hill+Utopia+in+Illinois
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-1955winter/ishs-1955winter-466.pdf
Describes the trip for Gold Rush
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/bord_casebook.htm
Describes Bigfoot sighting…about 28 down Myrtengreen
http://www.illinoisancestors.org/henry/bobslist.html
List of Henry co residents
http://www.neabigread.org/books/myantonia/teachers/cather_handout02.pdf
Study guide Swedish and Bohemian immigrants
http://www.lwvil.org/downloadimm/lwvil_immigration_study_first_packet.pdf
History of Illinois Settlement
http://onwardtoourpast.com/Czech
About Bohemia History
http://www.enotes.com/topic/History_of_Slovakia
For Slovakia history
http://prusowie.pl/historia/who_were_the_prussians.php
Some Prussian history
"The German is like a willow.
No matter which way you bend him,
he will always take root again."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -
More specifically about Gerd Vor Der Mark:
http://keepersthe.blogspot.com/2007/10/johann-hindrich-johann-auf-der-heides.html
Where did they come from in the middle ages and made their name?
For some related people (some written in German):
http://www.whilgedieck.homepage.t-online.de/
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