@@jefferykaley hello cousin! I looked at our Schneck genealogy book, and we share the first two generations of Schnecks in America, and then we split from there. Your ancestry is: the immigrant Adam Schneck > Johan Peter Schneck > Peter Schneck > Solomon Schneck > Heinrich Conrath Schneck > Theodore Schneck > Hattie Rebecca Schneck born 1904 married Elias D. Wert. The immigrant Adam Schneck’s log house is still standing in Schnecksville in Lehigh County PA. We have an annual Schneck Reunion on the first Sunday in August, which you are welcome to attend. We also have a reunion Facebook page if you’d like to learn more about the Schneck family. You must have heard a lot of Pennsylvania Dutch growing up with your grandparents! They were from the same generation as my grandparents, who spoke with a heavy accent. According to our Schneck book, it was your third generation Schneck ancestor, Peter, who moved to Pine Grove, Berks County. There are still a lot of Schnecks in that area. Some come to our reunion. Your ancestors moved away from Lehigh County to find land and other opportunities. But we still have many Schneck descendants in Schnecksville, including my brother and sister!

@@Pplouisex you’re welcome. And I’m so glad you now have a little peek into the way your grandparents spoke and lived. One of the top comments I get is that people so enjoy hearing my parents’ accent. Their accent once was everywhere when I was younger, but it’s fading away. I’m grateful my parents have lived this long and still have their wits about them, and that they don’t mind being recorded! You might enjoy some of my other videos I’ve made with them. I took them to a Groundhog Lodge in Macungie on February 2nd, and there is a lot of Dutch being spoken on that video!

I wish they would adopt me !😂

@@deborahharner2401 thank you so much for watching and commenting! We enjoy sharing our family with the world. The fact that my parents are over 90 means they help us time-travel back to a simpler time. So wonderful. It’s funny though, because they are my parents, I really don’t hear their accents!! 🤗

@@cweditor yup, first great grandchild!!

the beatnick hat was the best!!! We could only convince him to wear the grey hat for a short time, but I have to say, for two 93-year-olds-- they really are good sports!

So great to hear from you!! It was truly an honor to go on this tour and hear their stories. Much respect for the good people of Uniontown!

@@DDDD-pv7fw thank you so much!! We had such a wonderful time. The entire trip was great, but I have to agree with you, Switzerland is spectacular!

I still remember the fabulous salmon served on the airline, and the beautiful, blond Icelandic flight attendants. The whole trip was filled with magical moments. It was fun reliving it while putting this highlite reel together. Yes, you would have a lot of similar origins! That’s great you are getting to travel over there. Take lots of video!

@@BernWag that’s amazing! Isn’t it great to have ties to our nation’s founding?!

I think I can speak for her that all us kids were glad we didn’t have to do this growing up! The worst thing we had to do was pick weeds in our large garden!

Es ist Pennsylfannishe Deitsch genannt. Wir wissen wohl dass wir nicht Neederlandse sprechen. Die amerikanische Leute heißen es "Dutch", aber wir wissen dass es nicht ist.

@@Niravata greetings! Sorry-you’ll need to take that up with the 18th-century English people in Pennsylvania! They are the ones that labeled all the 18th century German-speaking immigrants “Dutch.” (Deitsch) There was no unified country of Germany at that time. There are many historical records from the 18th century that include this term, not to mention that my ancestors all identified as Pennsylvania Dutch, as do I. It has become a source of confusion as the centuries rolled on (people think we’re from the Netherlands) but most people of this ethnic group still call themselves by this term. If you search for the Kutztown Folk Festival in Pennsylvania, which is coming up soon, you can see our culture on display! The Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants primarily emigrated from what is today southwest Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. Their dialects blended into what is today the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. It is mainly spoken today by conservative groups like the Amish. In the 18th century, more than 90% of the immigrants were Lutheran and Reformed, the rest were Anabaptists. Thanks for watching!

@@UrleeBurdz he was born in ‘91, and now has a family of his own! He gets a kick out of so many people enjoying this video. He was only four when I took him there but he remembers that special day!

It is actually the song "America" also called "My Country Tis of Thee" written in 1831. We sing that often in the USA. The author used the British royal anthem, a symbol of monarchy, to make a statement about American democracy. I had to look that up, I always wondered why it was the same tune!

perhaps it is, thank you for commenting and watching!

Thank you, very interesting! I passed your comment along to my parents!

Yes, we get teased about being "snails!" Thank you for this information on how you say things, I sent it to my parents. We are glad you are watching from Germany!!

Yeah I know that, my family name is Hahn (rooster) so I get teased too, haha. But as I said, a Schneck is also a scroll, that spiral form is called Schneck independent from the animal. So it doesn't mean you're slow and eating all the salad in the garden. I can buy a cinnamon Schneck (Zimtschnecke) at my local bakery, it's delicious. 😊 Fence is pretty English so maybe they forgot the German words and for that they use the English ones. Fence sounds like "Fenster" (window) so maybe that's related. Gesprung(en) is past participle of "springen" and that means to jump. Those languages are closely related anyway. If you compare official Deutsch to English they look pretty different overall, but if you know some dialect (and some French) it's like a missing link. There are many words that sound or look similar but mean different things, but there's still a connection. The German "Bein" (leg) is the English "bone" and pants are "Hosen", which makes sense cause a pant is made of two hoses so to say. Such things are really fascinating to me.

@@superaids404 a good friend of my dad is a Hahn! I never knew what that meant. Now I do! Thanks for sharing about the scroll, I feel better now about my name! And yes, when I was in Germany in 1999, we bought a lot of Schnecken pastry! I grew up living among many people of German descent. If you haven’t seen my video about our local Grundsau Lodge, you will enjoy hearing people from my county in Pennsylvania speaking in the dialect. Recorded this past February. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pauqZWWre66Nb68si=GkZnp_tqORkD8LND

It was one of the highlights of our trip, so very unexpected!!

Hi Bryan! It’s great to hear from you, a fellow descendant of an original settler in the area!Thanks for the kind feedback, we love making these videos. Is your new house facing 873 on the fire company side of the street, or is it the other house along Park Avenue at the corner? I knew a Weida who grew up in Neffs, he was a little older than me. I do have some information on the expansion of Neffs in the 1800s, but no additional photos beyond what I’ve already shared in my videos. Send me an email at [email protected] and I’ll send you what I have.