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My grandfather (Edwin Petrell) emigrated from Finland in the early 1900s.  I am  trying to research my ggeneeology and wondering if your ancestors are from Finland?
Jim Petrell    jimhelen@northernnet.com

Nicholas Petrell, borne March 1895 in Greese, family moved to Texas Then California, for information contact vern@armory.com

My grandfather's name was Uno Petrell and lived in Somero, Finland. He had an uncle named
William Petrell who emigrated to USA, but I dont know when. Uno had one brother and two
sisters. The brothers name was Hugo and the sisters' name were Zaida and Suoma.

/Anneli Forsberg   email: len.for@mail.bip.net

Sorry! The name in the last mail was wrong! It should be EmilNOT William
Petrell.
/Anneli Forberg
email: len.for@mail.bip.net

Hi Vern  Thanks for the message.  I'm new to the net.  Yours was my
first EMail.  I am LaVernes daughter Nickie.  How are you related to my
Cool cousin Chris?  Tell him I said Hi ! Some dates are incorrect but we
can change those.  Leon's daughter Diana died two years ago of cancer.
I  do beleive it's time for a family reunion!!! Thanks Again  Nickie

Hi Vern--I talked to my cousin Virginia this evening and she's going to
contact you too.  I finally found out what smail is.  My address is
    Where do you "SnowBird"?
I've never understood why anyone would ever leave California.  Talk to
you soon--Nickie.

Date:         Fri, 16 Jul 1999 20:01:43 -0500
   From:         Jim Petrell <jimhelen@northernnet.com>

My grandfather (Edwin Petrell) emigrated from Finland in the early 1900s.  I am  trying to research my ggeneeology and wondering if your ancestors are from Finland?
Jim Petrell
jimhelen@northernnet.com

Nicholas Petrell, borne March 1895 in Greese, family moved to Texas Then California, for information contact vern@armory.com

Subject:         Anneli Forsberg
   Date:         Sun, 25 Jul 1999 16:00:53 +0200          Lennart Forsberg <len.for@bip.net>
 

My grandfather's name was Uno Petrell and lived in Somero, Finland. He had an uncle named
William Petrell who emigrated to USA, but I dont know when. Uno had one brother and two
sisters. The brothers name was Hugo and the sisters' name were Zaida and Suoma.

/Anneli Forsberg   email: len.for@mail.bip.net

Subject:         William Petrell      Date:         Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:25:27 -0000
   From:         Lennart Forsberg <len.for@mail.bip.net>
 

Sorry! The name in the last mail was wrong! It should be Emil NOT William
Petrell.
/Anneli Forberg
email: len.for@mail.bip.net

Hi Vern  Thanks for the message.  I'm new to the net.  Yours was my
first EMail.  I am LaVernes daughter Nickie.  How are you related to my
Cool cousin Chris?  Tell him I said Hi ! Some dates are incorrect but we
can change those.  Leon's daughter Diana died two years ago of cancer.
I  do beleive it's time for a family reunion!!! Thanks Again  Nickie

Subject:         Re: PETRELL--2
   Date:         Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
   From:         Nicolette Marx <benchmarx@webtv.net>

Hi Vern--I talked to my cousin Virginia this evening and she's going to
contact you too.  I finally found out what smail is.  My address is
    Where do you "SnowBird"?
I've never understood why anyone would ever leave California.  Talk to
you soon--Nickie

   Date:         Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:32:09 +0300 (EET DST)      From:        Petrell Joona <jpetrell@lehtori.cc.tut.fi>

  I had few thought about your written text in your web page called " How
to Start a War". It's very subjective view on WWII, but that is not why I
am emailing to you now. I'm Finnish and I was disturbed by you notation
that "Russia also invaded Poland and Finland as a joint venture with
Germany."
  Finns remained free over the whole WWII. By Germany's preasure we
attacked the Russia to free our lands invaded in the earlier "Winter War",
an offensive by Russia( Russia had the aim to make us a part of the
Communist Russia.) After we got our lands back we stopped advancing the
Russian territory. We did get some assistance from nazi-Germany to fight
the Russians. At the end of the WWII finns made a peacepack with Russians
and drove the German troops( which had been helping the Finland to
attack Russia) out of the Finnish territory. The peace agreement was hard
and Finland lost much land from it's eastern part. Finland stayed
democratic over the whole Cold War. We had good trade relations between
the Russia so some Western Countries thought we were communists. Nowadays
Finland has gross national product that of an England, Germany and other
wealthy western countries. Finland is not a part of the poor Eastern
Europe,  it's part of the Northern Europe countries like Sweden and
Norway.
  By the way, I stumbled my way to this article by founding The Petrell
Family Newsletter, also located at your web page. I thank you for
maintaining important genelogy imformation lettertables about various
families. I'm also Petrell and I know something about Petrell-family. In
Finland there even exists a written book conserning Petrell-family
history. I know my grandmum has one copy and I've been meaning to contact
her where to buy one myself.

- Joona Petrell

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