News from Norine Amend and her husband Jamie

News from Norine Amend and her husband Jamie.  Norine came to some Genies meetings at the library and has been following along with us on the blog and minutes.  She has really been busy researching their families.

 

The Volga Germans.  In Russia and the Americas from 1763 to the Present by Fred C. Koch (The Pennsylvania State University Press 1977).  The author came to America from The Volga Germany colony of Kolb at age 5.  He settled in Eastern WA,  working on newspapers in Wenatchee, Cashmere, Spokane, and Seattle. 

 

Jamie’s family went from Bavaria to the Ukraine towns of Frank and Walter in 1767.  The family has traced their Amend line back to the 1500s. Quincy has a Historical Center that is full of information and a German cemetery.  Quincy is a mostly German settlement in eastern Washington just east of Wenatchee up on the plateau.

 

The Volga Germans isn’t in our library.  One interesting note in the book by Jamie’s aunt pointed out that Frank was the headquarters Parish for the Germans.  Other towns mentioned in the settlement are Darmstadt and Hesse.

 

 

From my background, I have a lot of lineage traced far back and discovered that I had family on the Mayflower, one daughter Priscilla,  of my 11^th uncle, survived the winter and became the wife of John Alden and lived to have many children.  Norine and Jamie visited the Sharon Cemetery in Porter, Grays Harbor, WA and the land Norine's family settled about five years ago.

 

 

The Siskiyou Trail by Richard Dillon.  The Hudson Bay Fur Company Route to California.  The Siskiyou Trail began in the north and went south following beavers and provided the route north for the settlers.  Interesting!

 

What I can’t nail down is the path of settling into Chehalis and Grace Harbor in the 1870s before WA statehood.  The path to the Oregon territory for them was by wagon train from Kansas to Sacramento and up the Siskiyou Trail to their new life.  I know Fort Vancouver was there and was probably their first stop.  Since they came overland by wagon train, I’m wondering how the crossing of the Columbia was managed.   Jamie did find some info that suggests the Fort maintained a barge and did cross-river ferries up near the Dalles, OR which is narrower.  I wonder if anyone has family stories of managing that or the Siskiyou trail.

I’m not finding much information on this part but haven’t worked much on it for several years so others may have some info.

 

Any Ideas for Norine that will provide context?  The first idea that comes to my mind is to search books at familysearch.org for diaries.  We can discuss this more at our Genies meeting on March 19.