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To: Regulator

Is Melania Trump a Gottscheer?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/is-melania-trump-a-gottscheer


7 posted on 06/27/2017 3:04:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, my wife is a Goettscheer, and she looks like Melania.

But her G-Grandmother really was born in Gottschee. And left before WWI in the first Austrian diaspora from what is now called Slovenia.

So hard to say. Supposedly they all came from the one village, but that’s too narrow a definition for people who were sent there 700 years ago.

So she very well could be. Definitely looks the part.

PS, most Gottscheers live in Cleveland, Toronto and Queens as noted. The newcomers mostly in Queens. And they think of themselves still as Austrian, not Yugoslavian or Slovenian.


11 posted on 06/27/2017 3:33:28 PM PDT by Regulator
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