Posted on August 19, 2008
Wisconsin Dutch hope to establish ethnic study center
The goal is to build a Dutch research community and eventually establish a studies center for the state, she said. "I am hoping we are striking at the right time."
Until 18 years ago, Sheboygan County Historical Research Center director Mary Risseeuw thought the story about her Dutch heritage was pretty straightforward.
She was the great-granddaughter of immigrants who in the 1850s settled in the state to farm. Hers arrived in Cedar Grove.
An expert in textiles and weaver, Risseeuw, 54, decided to research her family’s genealogy. She discovered that she comes from a long line of weavers who for four generations ran a weaving school in Holland.
“Is there a genetic piece that made me choose that (profession)? I don’t know that there is,” she said. “But I still think it is a curious part of my history.”
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Wisconsin Dutch hope to establish ethnic study center
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