My grandfather came from Germany (Engelsberg) and my grandmother from Finland! I always wonder how they were able to talk to each other - LOL

My grandfather stowed away on a ship to get here too --- on the 3rd attempt he finally made it without getting caught and returned!!! Never checked in at Ellis Island.

My grandfathers brothers came from Germany and walked and hitched rides to Cincinnati, OH. They then sent for my grandfather. All of my grandparents and my husbands grandparents are from Germany. I have never been there but would love to go. I don't speak a work of German.

Yes, that's true.
My great grand parents were from Germany.

My father was born in Germany. He came to the USA in 1925.
Name was August Schaupp.

I have a friend in Kileen named Ute. Wish you could meet her.

My maternal grandfather came to the US in the late 1800s. His last name was Leidtke...but all three of his brothers spelled their name Liedtke.

that was funny, is strange that we all learn the bad words from a new language first

Liese my mom was a german gypsy and my dad from sweden.Her parents, my grandparents wonder how they where communicating too, must worked somehow i was born a year after they meet :oops:

My great...grandfather came to Texas in the 1850's from Hesse -- my greataunts spoke German with their friends quite a few generations later -- I remember being awed by their phone conversations in Shiner, TX, in the late 1950's