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Possible paths around a brickwall
So you think you have hit a brickwall, and there are no more clues to be found. If you have arrived at that spot and are frustrated, here are some ideas that might help you get ‘unstuck’. Did your ‘targeted’ person have siblings? If so, have you researched them to see if their lives might provide you with useful clues and pointers? Are there local histories that were written about the area in which you ‘brickwall’ ancestor lived? Do any of the biographical descriptions, within those local histories provided, offer clues as to where your person may have originated? Did your ‘mystery’ ancestor live within a community of folks who…
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German Genealogy Groups – Deutsche Genealogische Vereine
What follows is a fairly exhaustive (okay, maybe just long…) listing of German Genealogy Associations & Groups. I have the organizations listed in alphabetical sequence (When possible their German names are used because they are, oddly enough, most are German.). To query for groups by area name (or other key word) use control-f (your browser’s find function) to find those groups/ associations containing the place name (or other key word) you are searching for. Additional German Genealogy and History links may be found on our main Links page. Should you have additional German Genealogy Group links you would like to see here, please send them to me via our contact…
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Hesse (Prussia) Genealogy Research
As many of you may already know, the region of the world sometimes referred to as Prussia was both large and diverse, incorporating lands far beyond East & West Prussia. My wife’s family comes from one such area, the lands between Kassel and Darmstadt in what is today: Hessen, Germany. If you, like me, are looking for genealogical search aids and portals for the region of today’s German Province (State) of Hesse, here are numerous. But be aware, you will need to use your German skills to make the sites I have provided work optimally for you. If you do not read or speak German, you may wish to download…
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Merry Christmas
This year I thought we’d wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas in the languages spoken by the Rabideaus and Hensses over the years. I am certain I will have missed one or two Languages or Dialects, but nonetheless, here goes: Merry Christmas (English) Frohe Weihnachten (German, Swiss German) God Jul (Swedish, Norwegian) Joyeux Noël (French, Quebecois) Vrolijk Kerstfeest (Dutch) Linksmų KalÄ—dų (Lithuanian) WesoÅ‚ych ÅšwiÄ…t (Polish)
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