Posts about finding and using resources for researching in Germany, Prussia, and Austria, and German genealogy organizations and social media.
It's time for fun with German genealogy at SLIG 2019. You say you wanted to learn from the estimable Herr Lehrer Warren Bittner, but you couldn't make it to SLIG? What are my fellow masochists [...]
The SLIG 2019 Reading Gothic Script and Fraktur class is my first genealogy treat to myself of the new year. I've never had a head for languages. I believe my French professor in college [...]
Today's post is about a system I've put together when translating German genealogy records to English. Much has been written about resources to help you translate, but very little about the actual process of [...]
German Peasant Costumes - Silesia Tannhausen - Czarnowanz (near Oppeln) – (Courtesy Boston Public Library) Illustrations of German peasant costumes by noted German-American artist Louis Prang can help illuminate your family history [...]
