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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. th-cam.com/video/ozG42uFIZ9M/w-d-xo.htmlsi=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 ddschneck@gmail.com and I’ll send you what I have.

Thanks, I forwarded this on to them!

The Berks History Center offers online beginner Zoom classes. I took two, and learned enough to talk a little bit with parents! My parents only taught us words and phrases growing up. But the older people spoke it fluently.

Thank you!! Check out our other videos on my channel!

Good afternoon, it's wonderful to hear from you!! I sent your comment to my parents. They enjoy hearing from people in Germany! It is amazing that we can understand each other's dialect after hundreds of years of us living in Pennsylvania. In 1999, I visited Germany with my Schneck relatives, and we stopped at Trier and Kaiserslautern, not far from you. The Schnecks on our tour were able to use their dialect in southwestern Germany and northern Switzerland and the German people understood them. We enjoyed our time there very much. I would love to return to Germany one day. Thanks for watching our video!

Hallo ich komme aus der Pfalz und unser Dialekt hat sich nur wenig verändert, ich habe auch alles verstanden. I also grew up with the game your mother spoke about, which is amazing I think. There was a verse that goes with it and it went like this: "Hoppe, hoppe Reiter Wenn er fällt dann schreit er. Fällt er in den Graben, fressen ihn die Raben" The parent bounces the child on his/her knees and with the word "Graben" the legs of the parents are opened a bit so the child 'falls' just like your mother described it - I think it is absolutely wonderful that this has bee a shared memory of children for hundreds of years and "hiwwe wie driwwe" (here and there) Best wishes from Germany

@@moodindigos1 wow, that is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I forwarded your comment to my parents. They are especially happy to hear from people in Germany. We have been in Pennsylvania for so many generations, it feels wonderful to connect to our homeland and learn of these similarities. We also have this tradition with small children where we say “give me an aye aye” and the child presses their cheek against the parent’s cheek, or gives another comforting gesture one to the other. Have you ever heard of that?

@@darleneschneck Yes, I have. Children are often taught to, for example, go "aye" (mach ei) when being gentle with a baby or when touching pets. My grandniece, who is 2, always says "aye aye" when gently petting my cat for example. Learning about this shared culture is amazing.

@@moodindigos1 that's just so amazing! My sister is teaching her granddaughter, Emma, to say "aye-aye." Emma is a 10th-generation Pennsylvanian! Isn't this incredible that something so sweet would be passed along that many generations? It has to be a custom from the Palatinate that existed already in the early 1700s. My German ancestors emigrated between 1727-1750. Most were from southwest Germany. Some were originally from Switzerland (my Mennonite ancestors). They moved to the Palatinate for several generations to escape persecution before coming to America. I'm trying to think of other things my grandparents said that didn't make it on this video...one thing I remember is that my grandfather, when he was expressing disbelief (along with a twinge of disapproval), would shake his head and say "ay-ya-ya-ya" it got longer the more strongly he felt it 😊