I actually have another relative who went from Germany to Scotland in the late thirties, and got married and had a few kids and seemed to be settling there, but then in the early fifties, he started getting worried about nuclear proliferation, and so he and his family moved to New Zealand, since he thought that was far enough away from potential targets.
The Australian archives are pretty cool -- they've got a lot of their stuff scanned and available online, so I was able to search for my grandfather's cousin's name and it pulled up four documents -- two about his detention, and two about his army service -- and two of them were available for viewing right online, for free. I haven't seen that for any other place I've done genealogical research. Chicago has birth, marriage, and death records available for viewing online, but you've got to pay something like $16 for each one. For NYC, you can order the records online, but they send you a paper copy about a month later.
The Australian archives are pretty cool
Huh. I just found a fair chunk of my family -- oddly, some of them are listed as Austrian and some are listed as German.
Also, Cousin Cora was apparently Cousin Kora. I'm not sure that's a name I can handle right now.
There's a great book about the "Driving Miss Daisy" era,
The Temple Bombing >[link]
by Melissa Faye Greene, and much of the book is about Jews as outsiders in the South.
That's
where Mitch Pileggi went. My TiVo went and recorded "Teleworld Paid Program" like I requested it and it's ten minutes about 90210 and 10 about Sons of Anarchy. Kind of old news.
Mitch Pileggi needs to be onscreen with James Morrison. I demand it.
Hil, have you seen the Jewish tartan?
And yeesh, like I needed more books for the TBR pile-- although I think I can buy both of the aforementioned for my MIL and then borrow them from her.
That's really fascinating, Hil.
That tartan, linen tartan, is way cool.
oddly, some of them are listed as Austrian and some are listed as German.
If it's WWII era, Austrians were frequently listed as German after the Anschluss.
If it's WWII era, Austrians were frequently listed as German after the Anschluss.
Yep, that's what I was assuming -- and there's also the matter of it being, well, Austria; after the breakup of the empire after WWI, they ended up with cousins in what became Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, "Jugo-Slavia" (as the document I just read charmingly spells it). Bourgeois urban family, traveled a lot, settled in different cities, and all of a sudden they're different countries...
and there's also the matter of it being, well, Austria; after the breakup of the empire after WWI, they ended up with cousins in what became Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, "Jugo-Slavia" (as the document I just read charmingly spells it). Bourgeois urban family, traveled a lot, settled in different cities, and all of a sudden they're different countries...
Yep, same here. I've got some relatives who sometimes listed their birthplace as Poland, sometimes as Hungary, and sometimes as Austria, and you can make a case for any one of those being accurate, all for the same city. (Well, Hungary less so, but it's not totally wrong.) My grandfather grew up in Vienna, but relatives were in Hungary, Poland, and I think Slovakia. And then there were a few who went to Belgium or France. (We can definitely trace which city they were living in when they first took the last name, and then branch out from there. That city's in Poland now, but it used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.)
