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French Canada
Immigration from Old France to New France France under the Old Regime did not supply a great number of emigrants to its colonies across the Atlantic. In fact, just 15,000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen sailed for Canada in the seventeenth century, and two-thirds of them stayed in the colony for a short period and either returned to France or died in Canada without getting married. This was a very low number: the British Isles, with a population just over one-third of France’s, sent almost 380,000 immigrants to the New World over the same period. In fact, France was at the time showing various symptoms of social discontent that should have justified…
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Free Self-Help
Welcome to ManyRoads Free Self-help “Directory”. This page provides a “single” centralized directory, or point of entry, to the Free self-help materials I have created over the last 20+ years. The materials provided include: genealogical tools articles I have written genealogical resources: source materials links heuristics tools & technologies Hopefully they will assist you in your genealogy & history research efforts. Like many of you, I enjoy sharing my thoughts, ideas, and lessons-learned, in the hopes that they might be useful. The process of writing things down also helps me remember more effectively and I can use a lot of help in that arena! I, also, hope these thoughts might…
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Senger – Recht Family
The Senger family had lived in Kreis Elbing/ Kreis Grosses Werder/ Kreis Danzig area of Prussia since the late 1600’s, perhaps longer. Both of the 20th Century World Wars took a heavy toll on the family. Many family members died or were enslaved; and all of the Senger family lands and possessions, except those which fit in Richard Senger’s coffee tin, were either destroyed or taken by the war’s victors. The extended Senger/Recht family was decimated; the Richard Senger nuclear family survived intact. Senger Family Tree (History) in pdf format. If you wish a Gedcom version of the Senger Family Tree, please contact us directly to request a copy. Senger…
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Deyo Family
We are descended from Quebec Catholics- not a Huguenot among us (that I have found). My grandmother Leona Deyo is descended from the Joseph Deyo/ Deo/ Dion family of upstate New York (the area around Altona and into Northern Vermont and Southern Quebec). Most of our people have their roots in early Quebec and France. We are still discovering and learning about them and our roots. If you have any information to share please use our contact page to let us know. We will gladly share anything we obtain . Deyo Family Articles: We additionally have a collection of Deyo Family Documents to share.
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Kreis Elbing
This area contains information about the Kreis Elbing area where the Sengers lived. The primary information focuses on the area specifically near the Senger family lands, farm and business in Zeyervorderkampen. Kreis Elbing Articles:
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Deyo genealogy
Based on data and input I have received from various people, I believe I have traced and documented a “plausible” genealogy for the Joseph Deo family leading back to France in the late 1600s. If anyone is interested in reviewing the tree and commenting on what I have pieced together, please contact me.
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They went to war…
In addition to Luise and Erich Senger who both served in the Deutsche Luftwaffe during World War 2, numerous friends and family members of the Senger family were either inducted into or volunteered for German military service. The fortunate “souls” survived the war. Below are the photos of those we have in our collection. If you happen to know any of these individuals, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you. Click on an image to receive a larger picture, and learn a little about what we know of their fate.
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Does anyone know Tommy?
Tommy was an English war prisoner who spent most of World War 2 working on the Senger family farm in Zeyersvorderkampen. He was first captured by German forces at Dunkirk in 1940; and, he spent more than 4 years of the war working on and about the Senger farm. As you might gather from the photo, he was a good looking young man in a town with few young men during a time of total war and mobilization. We would love to hear from him or his family.
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“Photo” Enhancements
Getting a good picture from an aged image is crucial to developing and maintaining a good family history. Unfortunately as you look around ManyRoads, you’ll notice countless images that ought to be fixed. Aside from being a tad lazy, the skills required to accomplish this effort are significant and confusing. Much like the Document Enhancement posting of several days ago. We need to find a good image processing environment. I use the Gimp (an open source toolset that runs under Linux among other operating systems). Many Windows users employ Adobe Photoshop, the pre-eminent tool kit (but pricey). Numerous additional options are listed on About.com. Because I do things by hunt…
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Thank you…
I’d like to take a brief opportunity to thank the many people who have sent me information, pictures, and data to place on ManyRoads. It is my hope to keep this list up to date. So if you have sent me materials and through an error of omission (not commission) I somehow have neglected to add your name to the list, please remind me via our Contact page.
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“Document” Enhancement
Image & document restoration is key to successfully reading many genealogical documents. The source documents we have available to us today are often simply scanned or photographic images of original handwritten documents. Many of the originals are themselves are in poor or suspect condition even before they are digitally captured. Given that is the case, we can’t be ‘flummoxed’ because we still have to find a way to read these documents in order to decipher clues about our family’s’ past.
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Genealogy, Data Quality
Data Quality is the first in a series of posts on “Genealogy Gotchas”. (I thought this might present useful tips & pointers to our readers while I await your votes on my little poll.) One of the biggest problems I encounter when using tools like Ancestry, RootsWeb, HeritageQuest, or FamilySearch is that much of the available data is of extremely poor or questionable quality. Before I proceed any further let me clarify: I do NOT mean the original source data presented by any of the aforementioned sites is of poor quality. Source data from them forms very the background of our on-line life-blood. We really can’t do without the source…
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Genealogy tool reviews
Based upon an incredible interest (110+ reads in under 24 hours is immense interest in one of my posts!), I thought folks might like to see other reviews. As most of you, I use a LOT of tools and tricks to help me find the people and history around my family. I am happy to share my experiences and ‘insights’, such as they are, with you. However, I‘d like to take your interests into account as I build my posts- assuming you are willing to share your desires. So…
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Deyo Family Photos
This image gallery contains photos of the Deyo family. Our Deyo descendency is from Southern Quebec , Northern New York and Vermont (We are not a branch of the Deyo family from New Paltz and Southern NY). Should you wish to share photos of your Plattsburgh area Deyos with us, please contact me directly.
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Flucht und Vertreibung (Gallery)
This image gallery contains photos of the German Expulsion from “the East”. Some of the images are disturbing and may not be well suited for young children. Should you notice any problems with respect to time, place, information or copyright with these photos, please inform me so that I may rectify things immediately. The following link describes a bit about why this gallery appears on ManyRoads as well as our thoughts on Ethnic Expulsion: On the “Vertreibung”, Expulsions, and Hope Across the years, many of our ancestors (Rabideau & Henss alike) have been expelled, persecuted and “driven out or away” because of their beliefs or ethnicity. Rabideau & Henss forebears have been: Imprisoned…
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ManyRoads Update
A lot has happened during the past few weeks on ManyRoads. In order to keep things brief I just list them out: We found a new generation of Sengers — a VERY exciting happening– thanks to our LDS Zeyer ev. Kirche records ManyRoads has added a professional German/English- English/German translation service offering A ‘bunch’ of ‘new’ pictures have been added to Elbing Damals We added a Print function to our Posts * Pages (I hope that makes reading long articles easier). Our site is now easy to follow on Twitter (we are at… http://twitter.com/eirenicon ) We added our name to Genealogy.org and now appear 65 sites, as they list them…
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Translation Service (Fee based)
ManyRoads is pleased to anounce a new translation service for German/English and English/German. And… For those of you who have read my German, you know it can’t be a service provided by me! Truthfully… if you seek professional and expert “English to German” or “German to English” translations (old German & Fractur/ Gothic script included), please use our Contact form for an for an estimate.
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a little help???
Unfortunately my LDS ev. Church books for Zeyer – Ellerwald (West Prussia) are reaching an end…I’d love to hear from you if you have any pointers as to where I might look for earlier data (pre-1774). I am looking for information on the following family members: Esther Adelgunde (geb Grindemann) Kiehl (Graudenz Tiegenhof area) 1810-1850 Erdmann Kiehl (Graudenz) 1810-1850 Anna Christina Wilhelm (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1800 George Poek (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1800 Wilhelm Landig (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) c. 1720-1800 Heinrich Heyn (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1800 Michael Saenger (Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1700-1780 Judith Saenger geb. Sufust???(Zeyer-Ellerwald area) 1720-1790 …mark UPDATE: I just received the following note: Hallo! Für Ellerwald waren die evangelische Kirchen in Elbing zuständig:…
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Switzerland
In total, ManyRoads’ library of information is fairly extensive and frequently written in language of the original area (be that German, English, French, etc.). So far as we know, all of our texts are freely available (unless otherwise noted). You are free to download these texts, consistently with their licenses/ copyrights.If you know of additional open source, freely available digital texts that should be added to our collections, please use our Contact page to send us the particulars. If you have personal histories that you you would like to share on ManyRoads, please let us know and we will do our best to make them available to our readership.
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Mennonite – Amish
Welcome to the ManyRoads Mennonite & Amish Self-Help Center! If you are new to Amish-Mennonite research or just ‘stumped’ for additional clues and resources, hopefully this page will provide new sources of hope, inspiration, and information. ManyRoads Mennonite-Amish Libraries focus largely on two geographic regions: East & West Prussia (Ost und Westpreußen) Alsace (Elsass) Based upon your usage patterns and comments, plus my client research efforts, I will update the contents of this page as I uncover new information. Mennonite-Amish Libraries Related Postings: Related Page(s): Immigration from Germany to Russia Maps and Historical Notes related to Mennonite History by William Schroeder The Mennonite Heritage Centre is grateful to William Schroeder…
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Links
To access our ~1000 links, please click on a ‘likely’ sounding header to view the links filed within that topic category. If you have links that you would like to share with us, please let us know via our contact page.
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HELP: Deutsche Vertriebene- German Expulsions
Hello Readers, Because of the great shortage of information and histories associated with the expulsions of Germans from Eastern Europe after World War 2, I am placing a call to anyone willing to share their family story with others. Please contact me (use our contact page) with any histories that you may have from family members or elsewhere that involve the expulsion, flight or ethnic cleansing of Germans following the second world war. I will place the information you send (assuming it is not politically motivated) on the internet for others to view and share. It is my hope to contribute a bit of our past in order to help…
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WW2 News & Propaganda Films
ManyRoads does not in any way or manner condone war, racism or hated. But without knowledge and understanding of the past, we run the risk of repeating it. Please note: Propaganda films may be found to be offensive. We simply present them to provide historical perspective. Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) source: Wikipedia Triumph des Willens is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg (the Nuremburg Rally was attended by Nazi supporters to promote the Nazi political party), which was attended by more than 30,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at…
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Prussia (Germany)
Welcome to the ManyRoads’ Prussian/ German research library. Our library contains over 400 maps and also nearly 1000 texts; all are free for the downloading. Be advised, most of the texts are written in German and use Gothic print. I know it is strange but for some reason Germans wrote and used German. Who would have guessed… So if you are ‘stumped’ for additional clues and resources, hopefully this page will provide new sources of hope, inspiration, and information. In total, the ‘local’ ManyRoads’ libraries alone contain more than 50GB of original (digital) genealogical and historical source documents. In addition to our documents, this page provides links to what I…
