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Lodi’s Marlene Strand traced roots to grandparents’ Ukranian village
Marlene and Ted Strand talk about their 2008 trip to Romania and the Ukraine to see her grandparents’ roots during a meeting of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia on Sunday, March 18, 2012.
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Lodi’s Marlene Strand traced roots to grandparents’ Ukranian village
Ted Strand washes his hand from a homemade faucet during a 2008 vacation to Ukraine and Romania. He and his wife, Marlene, showed slides and talked about their trip during Sunday’s meeting of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
- Heritage Festival set for April
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Six speakers will discuss their German-Russian roots during a day-long Heritage Fest hosted in April by the Lodi chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
Club members from several Northern California chapters will participate in the event, which includes a homemade lunch and dinner.
The event, open to the community, will be begin at 8 a.m. on April 28 at First Baptist Church, 267 N. Mills Ave., Lodi. Tickets are $40. For more information, call 209-334-4915.
— Ross Farrow
Posted: Monday, March 19, 2012 12:00 am
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Updated: 6:34 am, Mon Mar 19, 2012.
Lodi’s Marlene Strand traced roots to grandparents’ Ukranian village
By Ross Farrow/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
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Marlene Strand was a woman on a mission. She wanted to find the house in which her maternal grandparents lived in the late 1800s, in a small village in what is now the Ukraine.
She found it in 2008 in what was once a German village filled with Lutherans. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, small German villages dotted the map in what was the nation of Bessarabia. Each village had only one church, either Catholic or Lutheran. Since Strand's ancestors were Lutherans, they lived in the German Lutheran village of Kloestitz.
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Marlene Strand,
Ukraine,
Ted Strand,
Black Sea,
Eastern Europe,
American Historical Society Of Germans From Russia,
Heritage Oak Winery,
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Christina Welch posted at 10:06 am on Mon, Mar 19, 2012.
Actually, it is not surprising to me that Mrs. Strand's grandparents had not learned English. They immigrated at a time when EL instruction was not commonplace as it is today, and they immigrated as adults, so they would not have been able to be taught English in school. Back then, they didn't have the resources and programs that are available to help immigrants learn English like we do today. Today we not only have EL programs in schools for immigrant children, but we also offer various programs for their parents as well.
The comparison seems like apples and oranges to me, and seems like a sad attempt to turn a lovely personal-interest story into yet another political statement.
Joanne Bobin posted at 8:04 am on Mon, Mar 19, 2012.
How wonderful that Mrs. Strand was able to travel to her grandparents' village in the Ukraine. Since the story did not give any further details, I wonder if she and her husband were able to trace her mother's family roots back any further than just her grandparents. Were they able to do any research on great-grandparents, great-great, etc.?
And what a sad ending to this story to find that a language barrier prevented Mrs. Strand from communicating with her grandparents. What about her mother? I am presuming that Mrs. Strand's mother must have spoken German as her first language - why could she not have been a bridge between her parents and her children and/or been able to record some oral history?
Interesting though that after 63 years in the United States, Mrs. Strand's grandparents had not learned English. Kind of puts a monkey wrench in the claim that all other immigrants learned English immediately upon arriving here, but Spanish speakers are somehow deficient or unable or unwilling to achieve that goal.