Hello! My name is Leticia Kruse and I live in Rosario, Argentina. Unfortunately, I don't have any family records, so I would be extremely grateful if anyone has any trace of a family member coming to Argentina. I think that my father told me that we were supposed to be danish, but he is not sure.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Leticia

Hello Leticia,

My mother's dad a Kruse came from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. This part of Germany would go back and forth as being Danish(Denmark) and Germany. So you could say we are part Danish along with being German. Schleswig-Holstein, Germany covers a large area. I have not been able to pinpoint where he came from exactly. I understand Kruse to be a very common name in the area.

I have been trying for 40 years to locate his home town to no avail. He came over to the US to get away from the Prussian Army. He died young and I think he as afraid to say where he exactly came from.

Best of Luck to you in your hunt. Who knows you and I might be related.

Shirl

Hello Letitia
I am a Danish Kruse and might help you, if you mail to my below mail address whatever information you might have about your father.
Regards
Allan Kruse Nielsen
akn@dalgashave.dk

Hallo!!! wie gehts!!

My name is ilka kruse. I leave in Germany. I am adopted, but my father is german.

How can you be in Argentina?

Come to germany where you belong... ;)

Really I dont know anything about our surname... but if you get to know please contact me...

ciao!

Hello Leticia,
My name is Otto Kruse, I was born in Schleswig Holstein near the City of Neumunster,in the locality called Gross Kummerfeld ( you can Google Earth to this location ) My parents migrated with 3 children, including me, to Australia in 1953. There are now no Kruses from our line left in Germany, although we do have cousins and aunties/uncles by other names still living in Germany. My paternal grandparents & greatgrandparents also lived in this vicinity. Although there are no Kruses from our line left in Germany, there are now ( my parents are still living ) about 20 Kruses from this line in Australia.
Hope this is of some help to you.

Regards

Otto Kruse

P.S.
As someone else has noted, Kruse, as a surname, is quite common in Schleswig Holstein & Denmark.

Hi leticia,
This is very exciting to see your post as I just googled "kruse family in argentina". My family is aware that we had Danish family in Argentina, family that we lost touch with in the early 1900s. This story may sound sensational but i umderstamd it be the truth.

There were two Kruse brothers from Denmark, trained in ship engineering. In the late 1800's they were sailing to San Francisco and ship wrecked off the coast of Argentina (not sure what area and not sure about the crew members). A coastal family took the brothers in and one of the brothers fell in love with one of the family's daughters. He married her and spent the rest of his life in Argentina. I will see if my great aunt knows his name.

The brother, KV Kruse, went on to San Francisco and built ships. He is my great great grandfather. His family continued in the ship building industry and eventualy moved to Oregon. My family is 4 generations in Oregon now.

Interestingly, a Kruse family member from Argentina, named Dagmar (I think) came up from Argentina to visit the US family. This would have been prior to WWII. She brought a gift from the Kruse family from Argentina, a diamond. The diamond was a gift to the first US Kruse son to get married. My grandfather used it as am engagement ring for my grandmother. My grandmother is 87 years old and still wears it.

I will get more details from my great aunt, whose mother was Laura Kruse, grandaughter of KV Kruse.

I was originally googling "Kruse family in Argentina" because my husband and I will be in Argentina on Jamuary 2010 for vacation, my 40th birthday. I wanted to see if we could connect with the long lost Kruse family in Argentina.

Maybe we are related! I will see if I can get more info from my 91 year old aunt.

Hoping we are related,
Sarah

Dear Sarah,

This is the first reply I got which seems more close to us.

The only thing my father was sure of was that we were Danish. There's even a little small red book in my house about Denmark. After I started to look for more info on the web we found that we could be German too, so I was lost.

I feel quite helpless because we don't have much more info than that. My grandfather (Juan Claudio Kruse) died when my father was 18 years-old. By that time my father was not interested in his family roots and apparently my grandfather didn't talk much about it.

It's a great story! I'd love to be part of it... great anecdote for grandchildren ; )

If you could ask your aunt more info, it will be great. I'm going to ask my father to draw a familiy tree.

If you are coming to Argentina on January, be prepared for the heat : ) It would be great if we could meet. I live in Rosario, 300 km from Buenos Aires. It's a nice city: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario,_Santa_Fe

Do you have an alternative email like hotmail? MIne is leticiakruse@hotmail.com.

CHeers,

Leticia

Sarah and Leticia
Several years ago I was looking for the Kruses in Argentina. I saw a message from Leticia and she spoke of a Johann Kruse. Since I do genealogy as a hobby I have the names of the Kruses in my husband and Sarah's family. There was Peder Kruse that lived in Veidma, Argentina, K. V. who ended up in North Bend Oregon, Ramus Kruse who came to the US and lived in Wilmington CA ( never found him in the census so am not sure if he stayed in the US or went back to Denmark) and their sister Helene that married a man by the surname of Lauritz. Their mother came to the US after she became a widow. Our Kruses were from Korsor, Denmark. Don't have the genealogy result at our summer cabin so will let you know more info after I get home.
Let me know if you have any questions.

Barilynn