The children of the S.S. Lebensborn program are having a reunion. Talk about having to come to grips with the past… That’s what the 60 or so folks at the reunion are attempting to do.
Following is an excerpt from an article in the November 3, 2006 editon of the Daily Mail. My final excerpted paragraph […]
Walt Hilbig wrote our Germanic Questions and Answers column for Heritage Quest Magazine for many years. I just found that his correspondence files are located at Arlene Eakle’s library in Tremonton, Utah. The following is by Kaye Mindar, and published in the September 21, 2006 edition of Small Town Papers.
This week in our genealogy corner […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of the book is: German Mercenary Expatriates in the United States and Canada Following the American Revolution - The Contingents from Brunswick, Ansbach and Bayreuth, and Hessen-Hanau, Based upon German Sources. (Originally Published as German-American Genealogical Research Monograph Numbers 1, 2 & 5) 3 volumes in 1.
It is commonly […]
The following article details a bit of the lives of the descendents of Adolph Hitler’s older half brother, Alois Hitler. It must be something to be unlucky enough to be a nephew of a demented mass murderer.
At the end of the article, I’ve added a couple links dealing with Hitler’s ancestry.
Long island: For the Germans, […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: 18th Century Records of the German Lutheran Church of Philadelphia (St. Michaels and Zion) Volume 4: Marriages and Confirmations
Volume 4 includes marriages recorded from 1745 through 1800 and Confirmations recorded from 1745 through 1769 and 1786.
By Robert L. Hess, Ph.D.; 2005; 5.5×8.25; 391 pp; softbound; Order […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory from Advertisements in German Newspapers Published in Philadelphia and Germantown, 1743-1800
This unusual compilation laid in typescript in the library of the Germantown Historical Society since 1935, until it was published by the Genealogical […]
Waldviertel or “Forest Quarter,” is a picturesque semi-mountainous region less than an hour’s drive west of Vienna, Austria. According to the website, “The Waldviertel is bordered on the south by the Danube or Donau River, which served as a lifeline for much of Central Europe. Castles dot its landscape and point to a former age […]
In searching the web last night I ran across a German genealogy website out of the Netherlands that I had not seen before. The site claims to have over 870 categorized links. In scanning the listings and clicking on a few of the links, I decided that I could spend a month doing nothing but […]