Posts about finding and using resources for researching in Germany, Prussia, and Austria, and German genealogy organizations and social media.
These Chicago German-Language Newspaper Obituaries helped me break through my Austrian genealogy brick wall. Searching for an Austrian Birthplace Churchyard at the Ladis Catholic Church. Regular readers know how elusive Gottfried Hann, [...]
Today's lets talk about searching the U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present. Chronicling America at the Library of Congress gets lots of good press from me and other genealogists. This resource provides access to digitized U.S. [...]
Is the American Easter Bunny German? Almost certainly, according to Library of Congress folklorist Stephen Winick. His research points to the Easter Bunny arriving in America courtesy of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the colonial [...]
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 [...]
