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Victims of National Socialism
ManyRoads’ recent client work has resulted in the identification of Information Resources on the victims of National Socialism (Nazism), 1938- 1945. These resources include information and data on those people(s) persecuted on political grounds; on grounds of religion, nationality, sexual orientation; for their physical or mental handicap; for accusations of so-called asociality; those who otherwise fell victim to Nazi injustice; or left their homeland to escape persecution. These sites include information on Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), Intellectuals, Homosexuals, Catholics, political opponents, and, of course, Jews. If you have other links you would like us to share, please use our contact page to notify us. The links on this page encompass…
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Finding Online Records in Poland
Are you researching the regions which are part of today’s Poland including: the lost Eastern German Provinces of West Prussia (Westpreußen), Pomerania (Pommern), Silesia (Schlesien), Posen and parts of the former province of East Prussia (Ostpreußen) the Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) Poland Galicia If you are, you may know that that access to records across this large Central European region can be difficult to find. The following article (Blog posting) provides an excellent road map of where to hunt. The content format and material on the following material in this post is mirrored from a posting on The Lost Shoebox. (I have mirrored the complete original posting so as not…
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Subscriptions, popups, and more
Effective 19 December 2017, ManyRoads offers a new membership subscription plan. Site users who subscribe to ManyRoads will not only be assisting us afford our servers, conduct our research and afford hosting development & management costs, but they will receive the added benefit of enjoying pop-up free use of our site. ManyRoads users who elect to remain on the current “Free plan” will begin to receive popups (begging for financial assistance) on select web pages. We will keep our Blog posts “popup free” for as long as we are able. If you believe you should receive pop-up free access to ManyRoads, and you can demonstrate that you perform Pro…
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Better, broader, ManyRoads’ language translation support
I am very happy to announce that we have established a partnership with Irina Yanushkevich. Irina is a professional translator; but being retired now, she feels bored “doing nothing.” In order to busy herself by helping others, she has most graciously offered to help ManyRoads clients/ readers as a translator, translating vital records. Briefly, her credentials are: Retired University Professor, Ph.D. Former-Head of the Linguistics department Former-Director of the Translator/Interpreter Training Program Irina’s translation skills include: Russian to English – fluent Russian or English to German – basic (sufficient for genealogical documents) Polish into English or German – basic (sufficient for genealogical documents) Irina has experience in helping several genealogical…
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World War II: “The Resistance”
In conducting a client search recently, I had need to unearth information regarding Nazi Resistance and Group Membership. As part of my effort, I elected to gather and archive many of the links I used to help me conduct my investigation. The links are listed below, perhaps you will find them useful. Perhaps you have others you would like to share. Should you be seeking additional guidance and help in conducting European genealogical research, you will find help on our Prussian-German Free Genealogy Help page. WW1 & WW2 (Links)
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Matricula Online
Just today, I stumbled across an excellent source for Free online “German” Church records. And to think, I thought I knew all the really best locations… The site is called Matricula Online. This site offers church registers (mostly containing birth, marriage and death records) from several “German or former German speaking regions in today’s European countries of Austria (with the most data), Germany, Serbia and Poland (around the former Breslau today Wrocław, Poland). It appears that Matricula has plans to expand, although I am not sure into which regions. To get an idea of their present coverage see the map (on the right) for more details on their current record…
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