I'm thinking of starting a new blog in reference to the 100th anniversary of my mother's family landing in Canadain 1912, as immigrants from Germany. My grandfather, Franz, arrived in March 1912 via New York, having sailed from Bremen. My grandmother, Hedwig, followed in Octobe. She travelled with her five daughters, Ella, Paula, Clara, Elizabeth and Charlotte. They travelled from Berlin to Antwerp, Belgium - probably by train, then sailed on October 9 1912, stopping in London and Quebec City, before arriving in Montreal on October 22, 1912. Coincidentally, that was Hedwig's birthday.

In Montreal, Hedwig and the girls joined the joined the German speaking congregation, Sankt Johannes Lutheran Church in Montreal. (Franz was RC). Later in 1930, when my father, Emil Neumann, moved to Montreal (1930), the Neumann family joined that same church. Later when Emil's first wife, Adoline, passed away, Emil needed a new mother for his children and a wife for a helpmate in life, andhe  approached the Blume family (five daughters). My father married Elizabeth Blume in 1940, and I was born about a year later.

Blogspot changing

Blogspot has changed the format, and I'm finding it hard to get used to it. Too confusing.