Some correspondence from Spain

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I did a search of names on the internet.  Then, I sent a letter to 

all of the Grolemunds and Grolimunds that I could find. I asked where 

they got such a strange name, and some other dumb questions.  Then it 

was a while before I started to get a few answers.  I had done the 

same thing a few years earlier, with only a few responses, and nothing 

much came of it.  As Stephan from Paris wrote to me for the second 

time, "The man to contact is Alois in Switzerland."  I should have 

started this project earlier, but other priorities interfered at the 

time.  And I had lost Stephan's message on an old computer.  Anyway, 

here now is history of the Spanish Connection to whom I passed on the 

French Connection's advice that we should contact the Swiss Connection.


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. wrote:
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De:              . [SMTP:grolimund.londono@mad.servicom.es]
> Enviado el:      lunes 9 de noviembre de 1998 21:07
> Para:            Bill Grolemund
> Asunto:          grolemund/grolimund name
> 
>Hi Bill,
> 
>Sorry for the delay but we were out of town.
> 
>I've got this strange last name from my grand-father who came from
>Switzerland and there is a bunch of Grolimunds in Spain (my father 
>and my uncle plus brother,  cousins and nephews and nieces, actually 
>I think around 25 people.
> 
>I know we got some relatives in USA  and I know there are some 
>Grolimund people living in France.  I'll send you further info.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Carlos


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-----Mensaje original-----
De:     WILLIAM GROLEMUND [SMTP:billgrolemund@usa.net]
Enviado el:     lunes 16 de noviembre de 1998 6:06
Para:   Carlos
Asunto: RV: grolimund name research

    Subject:   RV: grolimund name research
       Date:   Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:52:42 -0500
       From:   William J Grolemund 
         To:   "Carlos" 
   

Hi Carlos.

Thanks for the response.  I didn't get very many answers to my call 
to all the Grolimunds and Grolemunds on the internet.  But I did 
get a second mailing from Stephan in Paris who gave me the address 
of Alois in Switzerland.  Alois is doing research on the name.  I 
haven't written to him yet, but his address is:

   Mr. Alois Grolimund
   Gehrenmatt 532
   CH-4616 Kappel SO
   Switzerland

Stephan says that he is the person who knows the most about the
Grolimund history.

. . . . .

If I get more information, I will add some history to my web pages at
http://angelfire.com/fl/willnet1/Grolemund.html and see if anyone is
interested in giving the crown back to us. 

Best regards,

Bill

Segun mi esposa, yo hablo mucho pero no digo nada.
Ich habe drei Jahre in Deutschland gewohnt.


I also heard from Switzerland from Christoph in Basel 
who thinks the name is of a French origin because of 
the 'mund' sounding like 'mont.'  A mouth or a mountain?

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-----Mensaje original-----
  Subject:        RE: grolimund name research
     Date:        Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:45:28 +0100
     From:        "." 
       To:        'WILLIAM GROLEMUND' 

Hi Bill,
I got your message and made a copy for my uncle Paco who 
is also doing some research, he is in touch with Alois and 
I'll send you the data he has gotten as soon as he considers 
it is more or less finished.

By the way, according to my uncle, Grolimund means MUND=mouth 
and GROLI means something like angry.

I live in Madrid (Spain). . . . 

Best regards,

Carlos

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 -----Mensaje original-----

       Subject:            RV: grolimund name research
          Date:            Sun, 22 Nov 1998 23:37:27 -0500
          From:            William J Grolemund 
            To:            "Carlos" 

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for letting me know about your uncle Paco's research.  I am
embarassed to say that I haven't written to Alois myself.  I don't 
have too much to offer, but I can tell you there are hundreds of 
Grolemund and Grolimund families in Norte Americano.  I am sure 
there must be many of them south of the border (Rio Grande River) 
from Mexico to Antartica.  

On my web site, I included a copy of a letter I e-mailed to a cousin 
I had never met who found my name on the internet.  His name was 
Dan Grolemund and he lived in Fremont, California at the time.  I
mentioned in the letter about my talk with an elderly man at the
Hofbräuhaus in München in about 1962 or 1965.  He told me that the 
name came from the Altdeutsch and that it meant "Golden Mouth."  
I remember looking up in a modern dictionary to find that "grollen" 
means to complain or growl angrily.  Words change their meaning 
over years.  I wonder how far back Alois was able to trace the 
name.  Maybe it had an even different meaning at that time.

Give my regards to your uncle Paco.  Is that a nickname for Frank?  
I guess mine would be a "Memo" for Guillermo or a "Will" for Wilhelm. 
In english, we say, "Where there is a will, there is a way."

I look forward to the next news from Madrid in Spain.  My wife just
asked me "What are Grolimunds doing in Spain?"  Who knows, maybe there
are some of us in India, China, Russia, and everywhere.  My answer to
"What are you doing here?" is  "Everyone has to be (tener que estar) 
SOMEWHERE."

Best Regards,

Bill  ///  Memo



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 -----Mensaje original-----

  Subject:        Merry Christmas
     Date:        Wed, 23 Dec 1998 20:40:03 +0100
     From:        "." 
       To:        'WILLIAM GROLEMUND' 

Hi Bill,

I am enclosing something my wife, Claudia, has been working on.  
It is  not complete and we must check with tio Paco but I think 
you could check it too.   [[ NB:  This was the first chart.  ]]

Hope to hear from you.

I wish you Merry Christmas and a great end of the millenium.

Carlos

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         Subject:            Happy New Year
            Date:            Thu, 24 Dec 1998 22:46:17 -0500
            From:            William J Grolemund 
              To:            "Carlos" 

Hi Carlos,

I really appreciate that you are sending this information to me. 
I will need to install the Powerpoint program to read the chart
you sent me as an attachment.  I will convert it to an image for
a web page.  [[ - - -  some edit to original letter - - -  ]]

My wife, Sandy, isn't too interested in genealogy.  It is nice of
Claudia to help the Grolimunds in this work.  Does she have a
history of the Londono's?  My mother's name is German, too, and
I can't trace her side back far either.  

I also just saw a note from your uncle, Paco, on my Family Tree 
guestbook.  I don't look there very often.  I will send another 
letter to him in a moment. (I will use your address, O.K.?)

Anyway, Christmas was nice here.  It is warm in Florida, but it is
very cold in the other States of Norte Americano.  I hope all of
the Grolimunds in Spain are having a good holiday season.  Also, 
have another good year or two before the end of the millenium.

Best Regards,

Bill / Memo

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