Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about finding and using resources for researching in Germany, Prussia, and Austria, and German genealogy organizations and social media.
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 [...]
Ancestry shaking leaf vs. genealogy brick wall. Which is mightier? As it turns out, the Ancestry shaking leaf* is mightier than my ten-year-old Austrian brick wall. Now a leafy branch sprouts in its place [...]
Try finding German place names at Meyersgaz.org, which provides maps and translations. Using the essential Meyers Orts German gazetteer just got easier. Meyersgaz.org is a new site for searching the indispensable Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen [...]
