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Author: SEMissouriGirl
Surnames: Thoerner
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Verna, As friends of Udo and his wife Doris Thoerner, I can recommend his book, translated
into English in 2009: Venne in America: The Historical account of the emigration from a
Lower Saxony village in Germany to the Americas in the 19th century. 323 pp paperback. It
was published and printed in Osnabrück, but we finally located a distributor in the
States: Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 15865, Cincinnati,
Ohio 45215. It costs $32, including $4 postage. Write checks out to HCCOGS.
Not only did Udo spend his young life (he passed away suddenly in 2009 at the age of 44)
researching the causes and historical accounts of immigration from Venne, but he built an
extensive database of over 2000 Venne emigrants from 1830-1900 and included many
individual anecdotes about the families based on his interviews with descendants in
Germany and in the United States.
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