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15 Excellent & FREE Genealogy Sites
Numerous excellent FREE genealogy sites are available- probably too many to mention. Beyond the sites listed below from LovetoKnow, I suggest the following exceptional sites (obviously these relate heavily to my areas of research): Norwegian National Archives GenWIKI (German) Genealogy of Canada National Archives of Quebec (French) Progenealogists (Page of Links) sourced from LovetoKnow Roots Web Huge database of ancestry data. Be sure to check out the information on how to get started. Also offers many tools and resources in addition to information such as charts and forms for tracking your family tree. Also find related mailing lists and message boards. [This site is owned and operated by Ancestry.com these…
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Share with Gendex
Share your information! It’s a really good idea. Almost certainly someone out there is looking for a family member or two of yours. The corollary is: you know how hard it has been for you to find reliable information, why not make it easier for everyone by generously making your work shareable. Of course, you want to protect your living relatives. You also want to be acknowledged for your efforts. Each of these objectives are easily achieved. Gendex files ‘automagically’ protect your living relatives data. Creative Commons offers license schemes, at no cost, to protect your intellectual property. I make my publicly viewable data available on FamilySeekeer and GenealogyToday. I…
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Speaker Presentations…
Is your library, group or society seeking experienced insights and guidance into researching family history, traditions, names, migrations? If you are, ManyRoads is happy to work with you to discuss speaker arrangements. Fees: Negotiable Remote Presentations: Preferred. Travel Costs (as required): These charges will cover my extra time requirements and travel related costs. Presentation Equipment Needs: to be provided by the hiring group. I suspect that no one will request my ‘august’ presence on very short notice. If that assumption is correct (you have to love nested assumptions), anything in the list above and in the list below is a potential for a genealogical presentation/ talk. In this Covid world,…
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Look in a mirror…
People fear the past… they fear their history. I have had countless conversations with family genealogists who have problems bringing unwanted, or bad news to their families. The bad news is ‘how you say???’ — rarely well received. Bad news is a term I use loosely. More precisely I am referring to the news that family members don’t want to hear. Or in my case, they have other tales and myths that they really want you to re-enforce, not deny. If you have looked closely at this site (ManyRoads), you have noticed news like that. Every family has undesireables, be they facts, people or circumstances. However the truth is always…
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GRAMPS review and decision #3
Today we have published three (3) branches of our genealogy; two (2) are available for public access. Senger Branch (Public) Deyo Branch (Public) I have customized the output of GRAMPS standard web generation tools (NAVWEB) to create a look & feel that is consistent with the ManyRoads website. Please be aware that there remain bugs in the tooling (such as the web links from GRAMPS outward do not display or work correctly). Also, and more importantly, the data continues to be a work in progress. As with most family genealogies you will notice that ours is not balanaced in terms of distance in time or breadth of known ancestry. I…
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Senger Familie
Senger Family Tree (History) The Senger Family Tree (History) document is about 500 pages long, in pdf format. Please contact us if you wish a Gedcom version of the Senger Family tree. Senger Histories The Senger Family Tree, major revision dates: 15 Feb 2019 17 Feb 2015 7 June 2012 11 May 2012 15 November 2011 11 November 2011 02 November 2011 12 October 2011 11 October 2010 11 May 2010 Senger Genealogy by Mark F. Rabideau is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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GRAMPS review and decision #2
Based upon my decision to use GRAMPS as our primary genealogical database management environment, I have begun the transfer of family branches (both public and private) into our new format. If you look closely, you should notice the appearance of new page links from our various menus… As I undertake this transition, I will be going through quite a bit of re-entry and re-building of our data. Today I placed a private file online. In the next week or so I hope to transfer the Deyo Family materials from TNG into the new GRAMPS format. Each of these efforts will be incremental, meaning as soon as I have useful data,…
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Protected: Johannson Family
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Cleanup from Ancestry.com #2
Ancestry files require a lot of clean-up before they are really useful or accurate. As I noted earlier, the files themselves need to be scrubbed of duplicates, overlapping records and more. In order to accomplish these repairs, I use numerous tools to address the requisite tasks including: GRAMPS (a Linux Genealogical Toolset)- I like this tool a lot because it provides wonderful facilities for performing the following functions: Merging duplicate Sources Merging Duplicate Places Identifying and Merging duplicate People Database clean-up RootsMagic 4 provides nice facilities for: Pruning branches and limbs Problem analysis TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding): (Note: I no longer use TNG- 28 Jul 2010) Merging…
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Genealogies
If you are wondering why we do all this, perhaps a reading of “The Story” will help set the context for you. Things have changed and evolved since I originally authored that material, but the message, ideals, and aspirations remain true. As for this area of our website, today there are thousands of pages of materials in this area; and as will always be the case, our data remains incomplete. We are actively researching and gathering information in the following areas especially from those ancestors whose hiding skills are quite superior! Several Rabideau-Henss Family branch genealogies are publicly accessible. Unfortunately not all of our genealogical data is available to all…
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Norwegian Research
Norway offers exceptional internet research facilities for genealogy. Although we have not been working in the Sivertsen family line very long we have uncovered some very helpful web-tools. Thus far we have unearthed several excellent, dare I say indispensable, tools: Norwegian Historical Data Centre (a wonderful repository) – The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø (UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. National Archives of Norway – Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) is the Norwegian National Archives’ channel for…
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Scandinavia Research is underway
I have begun in earnest working on Becky’s side of the family. This means research in both Norway and Sweden has started for me. As one might expect the available references and information are a ‘tad’ difficult for non-native language speakers; and my German is not really very close to either Norwegian or Swedish! Having said that I must say that the available resources are quite exceptional. I find those from Norway to be a bit more advanced and easier to use (not to mention free!). Sweden’s are less complete, more awkward technologically and they cost money; unless you go to your local LDS Family History Center for free access.…
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Two speaking engagements
Tell your friends! It’s now official. I will be speaking at two separate meetings of the Parker (Colorado) Genealogical Society. Meeting Location: Stroh Ranch Fire Station (New Location) 19310 Stroh Ranch Road Parker, Colorado 2nd Saturday of each month (except December will be the 1st Saturday) Business Meeting: 1:30pm – 2pm Speaker: 2pm – 3:30pm My sessions will take place on 12 June 2010 and 9 October 2010. As might guess from the above, if you can make it, plan on being there at 1330 or 1:30pm. The subjects I will speak on are: What’s in a Name? (tracking your genealogy through a long history of mis-spelled names). I will…
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New Library Additions
Today we added a dozen+ new texts in our Quebec library. I hope you find them helpful. Please feel free to let me know if there are other texts you’d like to see online, or if you encounter difficulties with ours.
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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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Maps (Cartography)
ManyRoads’ Cartography Area Maps – Landkarten As in the past, ManyRoads is committed to providing access to a wide variety of downloadable ‘free’ maps. In this area, we offer nearly 500 Maps, many are quite ‘ancient’. It is our strong belief that maps form an extremely useful bridge to understanding both the movement of peoples and groups as well as to the life styles and life options that were available in different times. To quote the USGS (United States Geological Service)… Maps are one of the many sources you may need to complete a family tree. In genealogical research, maps often provide clues to where our ancestors may have lived and…
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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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Genealogy Database “Tools”
It has been on my mind for quite a while that I should share a bit of insight into which Genealogy tools I find useful, have tried to use, etc. I’ll expand this posting theme over time but here goes… Genealogy Databases-
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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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The Deyo Mystery… is solved!!
Note: I have solved this mystery and established the link. John’s parent’s were, in fact, Joseph Dion (Deo- Deyo) and Julia (Julie/ Julienne) Denis (Denys, Lafay, LaFaille, Dennis). The most commanding piece of obvious genealogical evidence is immediately below (John’s death certificate). As for the rest of the story, I am writing and plan to post a more complete history. My previous post on this subject is below: I am searching to find the parents of one John Deyo. I can find an obvious (but incorrect!) link from him to a set of parents identified in the New Paltz area of New York as Christian Deyo… I think we now…
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Zeyer ev. Church Records
Today is a big day for me. As of this writing I now have full-time access to all but two of the Zeyer ev. Kirche books. It is like having my mother’s family come home. Or more precisely, it is more like have them nearer to me. I am now able to go to the local LDS Family History Center (in Parker, Co) and read the texts, research my family, or reread the texts whenever I have the need or desire. Over the next month or two, I should have the remainder of the Zeyer ev. Kirche records here on a permanent basis. I am not certain which microfilms will…
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Another Research Success!
Today was one of those days I enjoy; I spent much of the day doing family research in the local LDS Family History Center. Some of the highlights included: We found another brother of my grandfather Richard Senger- Wilhelm, he lived only 14 days. We identified the correct spelling of my g-g-g-g- grandmother Saenger’s maiden name: Stafast We found a death and burial record for both my g-g- grandparents Michael Saenger and Ester Euphrosina Saenger geb. Landig But the best part of the whole day was that my sister (Linda) had the opportunity to spend the day with me and visit some of old German family members. Probably the highlight…
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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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Spectacular resources for reseach
I have come across a few extra-special web based resources for genealogy and history research. The resources include: The Internet Archive-“The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.” europeana-“a place for inspiration and ideas. Search through the cultural collections of Europe, connect to other user pathways and share your discoveries.” dlibra– “dLibra is used by institutions such as academic and public libraries to make stored digital publications available on the Internet. These institutions by using PIONIER network and dLibra software create…
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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 Self-help
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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’tis the season
We wish all our relatives, readers and friends the most Joyous of Holiday Seasons! May your lives be filled with Peace, Joy and Happiness, always.
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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 French, 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 a…
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Why Djvu and not PDF?
As many of you have probably noticed, I am in the process of uploading, and making available, documents that use a DJVU file format. Perhaps a brief explanation of the rationale is in order. To quote the authors of DJVU: Many products and technologies are available today for storing and distributing digital images. However, most of these technologies are slow and inconvenient for distributing high-resolution color photos, and woefully impractical for delivering high-resolution scanned documents in B&W and color, because the files they produce are prohibitively large, and the viewing software memory hungry. With its ability to attain very high compression ratios while preserving crisp and legible text, DJVU has…
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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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About Us
ManyRoads represents our best attempt at gathering, presenting and archiving the genealogy and family histories for both the Rabideau & Henss families. As we conduct our family genealogical research, we create and maintain archives for what we believe to be interesting and useful source information; we hope you find our archives helpful. They are all free, to the extent that copyrights allow. If what you are looking for is not on this page, additional materials may be found at: ManyRoads Services Our current genealogy work is focused in the following regions/ areas East & West Prussia (pre-1947, especially the area formerly known as Kreis Elbing) Hesse (Germany) Volga Deutsch- Bessarabia…
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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…
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Fair Use
ManyRoads may contain material copyrighted by others. ManyRoads makes any such such material available in an effort to advance an understanding of information related to our family history and circumstances. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who may have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you…
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