guten abend,
i was raised by a german step mother who was from a small town called bergheim not far from the army base in budingen.i got to spend my summers there and travel all over europe. the relatives there were so good to me that I didn't want to come home. growing up in ca they had a german-american organization we belonged to that was a lot of fun maybe they have one where you live you might like. it is funny thinking about back then when i came to live with her and my dad i was from the hills in nc and spoke the hillbilly way and she was just learning english so we kind of developed our own language half german and half english, people on either side of the ocean couldn't under stand but that is what we would use when talking to each other. had to get rid of the fixins, reckons and ain't though being in ca. before that i lived with my cherokee grandmom but don't remember any of her terms anymore.wish i did. my dad would tease me being a hillbilly raised in the german way. my poor mom had alot of bad habits to break when she got me lol. it was funny when my dad would come home and she was so proud of a new word i taught her and would want to know what it meant come to find it was a 4 letter word boy did i get in trouble. hahahahaha

Hope so, I lived in Bann, GE 7 years...
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Since 2000 I have US citizenship, but I came over in '82.

There is a wonderful German Quiltingboard that is very much like this one.

patchwork-quilt-forum.de

I play there a little bit so I can learn or keep up with German quilt terminology.

gosh, had to click back in and say thank you for the memories. i have been sitting here laughing all evening thinking back. and wanted to share this story:
If you can imagine my poor step mom being a very proper and mannered german lady being called to talk to my teacher in grade school and never had kids of her own. i still remember her face getting redder and redder as the teacher went on to explain she thought something was wrong with me cause when she gave the assignment I wrote a big fantasy story about my favorite pet being a pet pig. she could hardly choke out the words that it was true and was so red like a red crayon. by the time we got home and she told my dad he just made her mad then cause all he could do is double up laughing. also i bet she never thought today she would be concidered a cougar lol.

Oh, how I miss a German bakery!!!!! Miss German bread and broetchen and all the cakes and sweets....miss everything a german bakery has to offer!!! That is always the first place I would go shop at when back in Germany.

I'm second generation, family name of Doerring. There are not very many of us, and the spelling of our name has changed.

My great great grandfather stowed away on a ship to get here. He was from Frankfurt. I spent 5 years in Germany and felt at home there. People seemed to think I was from there as they kept walking up to me and talking to me. I had to learn some German!

I also have Ehlers in my background along with Aufdenkamp and several others.

My Grandpas family came from there, I beleive before he was born though.

My grandmother was German, Last name was Bachman.