Revised Tips & Pointers

For those of you who are interested in the tips etc. I have been writing, I have begun the process of both adding new materials and sorting my lists of articles into more useful (I hope) groupings.  You can see everything as it evolves here or you may directly access my newly sorted areas from the lists below:

Search Tricks & Tips:

• Another Mocavo offering
• Another perspective on Ancestry hints
• Examining Photos for Clues
• Finding Wilhelm Henss
• Genealogy: serendipity and good fortune
• Google Search “Automated Tricks”
• Google Search “Tricks & Tips”
• Image Search “Google Tricks”
• Immigration
• Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
• Library Updates
• Matricula Online
• NEHGS Searchable German Duplicate Records
• Oldenburger Adreßbücher online verfügbar
• Olsztyn/ Allenstein State Archives
• Polish Archives
• Possible paths around a brickwall
• Researching “Lost” Eastern German Provinces
• Researching Mennonite Regions of Damals Preußen (former Prussia)
• Searching for Texts (online)
• Shoah Research (Holocaust) Resources
• Surname (Family Name) Discovery and Mapping
• Using a Semantic Engine for Better Understanding

German Genealogy Pointers:

• “Our” Mennonite Churches in Europe
• “Un-German” German Names
• 70 years on…
• Allenstein (Ostpreußen) Records
• Automated Translations
• Conducting Better German Research
• Danzig- Westpreussen (West Prussia) Heimatortskartei
• Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte (German Administrative History) 1871-1990
• digibiblio German Database
• East Prussia – Ostpreußen
• Eastern Germans, a cold case?
• Ethnic German Genealogy
• Finding Former Eastern German Place Names
• Finding Genealogy Data in Central & Eastern Europe
• Finding German Genealogy Data
• Finding German War Dead
• Finding Online Records in Poland
• German Expulsions & the Diaspora
• German Genealogical Societies
• German Genealogy Groups – Deutsche Genealogische Vereine
• German Genealogy Research Aids
• German Illness/ Death Terms and Translations
• German Name Spellings
• Hesse (Prussia) Genealogy Research
• ICRC World War 1 Prisoner of War Database
• Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
• Matricula Online
• Mennonite, Hutterite, Amish Records Coming Online!
• Mennonite/Amish/Anabaptist Research Materials
• Might your family be descended from Prussian Mennonites?
• NEHGS Searchable German Duplicate Records
• Old German Terms, Occupations, etc.
• Oldenburger Adreßbücher online verfügbar
• Olsztyn/ Allenstein State Archives
• On-line Prussian, Ukrainian, Russian Mennonite Records
• Polish Genealogical Societies
• Pommern Genealogy Research of Egon Giese
• Researching “Lost” Eastern German Provinces
• Researching Mennonite Regions of Damals Preußen (former Prussia)
• Researching the Eastern European German Diaspora (Tutorial)
• Shoah Research (Holocaust) Resources
• Shoah Research- Getting Started
• So you think your ancestor was Prussian…
• Source Materials- It’s almost magic!
• Swiss- Alsatian Mennonite- Anabaptist Research
• The Former German Provinces & Missing Persons Search
• Understanding the German Past
• Using HADIS to search in Hesse
• Why are so many records missing?
• WW1 German Casualty Lists – 1.WK Armee-Verordnungsblatt Verlustliste

Quebec Genealogy Pointers:

• “Dit” Names
• French Canadian Genealogy Searches- Quebec Research Tip #1
• French Canadian Source Materials- Quebec Research Tip #2
• Kick-starting your genealogy efforts
• Quebec Genealogical Tutorial
• Quebec Historical Documents & Newspapers- Quebec Research Tip #3
• Rituel du Diocèse de Quebec
• Using Cyprien Tanguay’s texts…