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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 267878, member: 2844&quot;]Interesting evelyb, could very well be. Maybe you can find out through immigration records, Ellis Island, etc.</p><p>Countless Germans went to Russia to escape the many wars between the different German countries, and resulting famine and disease. </p><p>And I know that the German mercenaries who fought in the Dutch independence war against the Spanish, in the 16th century, were recruted by the Russians when &#039;our&#039; war was over. </p><p>Those who became Volga Germans were invited by the Tzar to develop agriculture in that region. And many came as master craftspeople everytime the Russians had a taste for Western arts and crafts.</p><p>There is an intriguing link between the story of the Pied Piper and German emigration to eastern Europe:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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