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Amish-Mennonite
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Austria-Hungary
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Poland
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European Libraries
Be advised that many of the texts in our libraries are printed in the original language of publication. This includes: German, English, French, etc. If you are uncomfortable operating in these languages consider using either online translation tools like Google Translate or hiring expert assistance. ManyRoads is happy to offer quotations for language translation. There are some 1500 texts in this area including materials from (click on the bullet items below for folder access):
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Prussia-Germany
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“Life in the Past Lane” Podcasts
Welcome Life in the Past Lane is in full production. ‘Released’ podcasts are listed below, as well as on anchor.fm. Published episodes are available for your listening pleasure (you may hear them here or on our podcast host site at anchor.fm). Our plan is to produce approximately 25 segments per year, based on time availability. Each Podcast segment takes me between 5 and 10 hours to write, record, mix & produce. We are looking for “Life in the Past Lane” sponsors! Are you able to help us defray the costs of podcast production? Do you want to see more podcasts come online? Are you willing to buy us a coffee…
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Finding “hidden” genealogy clues
Nearly 9 years a go, I wrote a small set of posts on the topic of finding genealogy information in unlikely sources. I have removed those articles from ManyRoads and written this lengthy revision as a replacement. I thought it was about time for me to share what I have learned since then. Not surprisingly genealogy data and clues are where you find them. However, they are not always located where you think the event(s) took place nor even where you might believe they should be. Most of the time genealogists immersed in hunting for clues tend follow “those tried and true” paths of searching the Internet. Many will limit…
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Soviet Aerial Attacks (2 partial Reports)
The content and material for this post came to my possession via a recommendation of a very good Polish friend who lives in Elbląg, Polska (formerly Elbing, Westpreußen). The Soviet military text was generously translated by Irina Yanushkevich (retired Linguistics Professor and ManyRoads partner). The original source material was sourced and posted on facebook by Szymon Gieryga. English translation of the two Soviet documents (contained in the above folder). Frisches Haff Flucht-Report-1 (English Translation) 3) ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST THE ENEMY TROOPS RETREATING ALONG ICY ROADS ACROSS THE BAY OF FRISCHES HAFFOn the 18th the division was to perform a special task: to destroy the enemy troops retreating along the spit…
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The past…
I smell the scents of my grandparents. I feel the movement and receive the warmth of my predecessors. I sense their movements around me and even feel the brush of their hands. I see their shadows and ‘understand’ their encouragement. It is strange how the past haunts me. Or rather I should say, it is strange how it envelopes me. It seems the past and shades of my past are everywhere in my life. Hardly a day goes by where I do not ‘hear’ the voices of my predecessors. They provide me with caring advice, consul, and criticism. They provide me sounding boards for my thoughts, ideas, and actions. They…
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ManyRoads Genealogy Podcasts: Coming soon!
ManyRoads is pleased to announce that, at long last, we have begun the recording of our Genealogy Podcast series. The ManyRoads Genealogy podcasts will be co-hosted by yours truly (Mark Rabideau) and Dawn Harvey. Our podcast productions are recorded at the magnificent film & recording studio provided by the Douglas County libraries in Parker, Colorado. Our initial episodes are ‘digitized’ and in ‘final’ production. We hope to have many more underway by the end of February 2019. We are not quite certain when ‘exactly’ our podcasts will be publish or where. Identifying those details is ‘in process’. Be assured, we will provide information and pointers to make certain you are…
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West Prussian Mennonite Church Records & Land Records
In an effort to simplify and gather crucial West Prussian Mennonite Records, I have developed this small list. Most of the pointers come from Forums and Listings associated with Bethel College, MennonteGenealogy, and Dr. Tim Janzen. Genealogical Resources for the Low German Mennonite Researcher Prussian/Polish Mennonite church record books: Alexanderwohl/Przechowka Danzig/Gdansk Mennonite congregation Elbing/Elblag Mennonite congregation Fürstenwerder Mennonite congregation Heinrichsdorf, Volhynia, Mennonite congregation Heubuden Mennonite congregation Karolswalde, Volhynia, church book notes Königsberg congregation Ladekopp Mennonite congregation Michalin-Gnadenberg-Grace Hill Mennonite congregation Montau Orlofferfelde Rosenort Schönsee-Kulmer Niederung congregation Thiensdorf-Markushof Tiegenhagen Tragheimerweide Land Records: Graudenz and Schwetz land records Mennonite Villages in the Danzig District in 1820 Mennonite villages in the Marienwerder District, West Prussia 1820 West Prussian…
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Amazing and unexpected resources
I suppose many of you, like me, live in Communities offering library services. Also probably like me, you have not really thought of your local library when you are stumped for new affordable (meaning Free) Genealogy Research resources. Well this week while helping take care of my grandsons by watching riveting episodes of Disney Kids shows and web surfing, I stumbled upon a previously unvisited Douglas County Library webpage. By that I mean, I never had landed on that page before. You would think that a web link entitled Research might have ‘jumped out at me’ before, but it never did. Or if it did, I don’t remember having seen…
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Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte (German Administrative History) 1871-1990
One of the Internet’s most valuable German research websites has been removed from service, Dr. Michael Rademacher’s: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte von der Reichseinigung 1871 bis zur Wiedervereinigung 1990 (German administrative history from the Reich Agreement of 1871 to reunification in 1990). I do not know the reason for the site’s (and its related facebook site’s) removal; but I happen to have a copy of the original site (reconstructed from the Wayback Machine) and present it here in memory of its author: Dr. Michael Rademacher M.A.. I make no claim of ownership, nor do I acknowledge responsibility for the original site’s content. As per the original site: alle Rechte vorbehalten (all rights…
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Privacy Notice & GDPR Request
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for https://many-roads.com (aka. ManyRoads). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected and used by this website. Our website will notify you of the following: What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. Information Collection, Use, and Sharing We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent…
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GDPR Compliance
Effective today (25 May 2018), ManyRoads is in compliance with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 law implemented 25 May 2018. Quoting from Wikipedia: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU. ManyRoads’ collection of private data is…
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DNA & Ethnicity- Who, me?
Like most genealogists (and family historians): I am not a DNA expert, but am curious about my family history, and I want as many clues and facts as I can unearth. All in all, I guess that makes me pretty average. Although, I hesitate to emphasize my being normal. By way of providing some further background and context, I really do know quite a bit about my familys’ histories (awkward grammar alert). But, I continue to want to learn more. Like most of you, when I get stumped chasing previously obvious leads, I look for new information and data threads to pull. DNA clues have always seemed to offer…
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Are you new to GEDmatch?
If you are like many family genealogists and historians, you are likely involved in analyzing the potential of using DNA for your research. As you may have read, here or elsewhere, my wife and I have both ‘taken’ 23andme and AncestryDNA ‘tests’. We obtained some useful and interesting information; I even solved one small mystery using DNA. But for all that, I’d have to say the whole DNA thing seemed overblown and over valued to me. That is until now. This last week a friend strongly suggested I use GEDmatch. I dutifully downloaded one of my DNA test results (the one from AncestryDNA because it was newest and I only…
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Alternative Germanic Research Sources
Address Books (City Directories) ~ Adreßbücher This brief article focuses on one of the less-popular, but more useful, research sources. Like most Eastern German (including Prussian, Jewish, Polish, Mennonite) sources, many of these documents disappeared in World War 2 and its aftermath. Nonetheless perhaps due to the volumes produced, many address books survive in archives today. Key points about Address Books include: Address Books vary in terms of their years of publication. Although many begin to appear, in larger cities, in the mid-1800s and continue into the 1940s. Address Books are not restricted to any single region or area of the former German Empire (Deutsches Reich). They were pervasive in larger German…
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Famicity reviews ManyRoads
Today, Erin Harris of famicity posted a nice review of ManyRoads on their blog. The review is most appreciated. You may view the entire review here. If you are unfamiliar with famicity, you can learn about them on their website. We, at ManyRoads, greatly appreciate the effort and time Erin Harris and the folks at famicity put into developing and publishing this work. We are also “pretty proud” of what they have had to say.
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Contact
We appreciate your contact and welcome requests for our personalized, professional (bespoke) genealogical and/or genealogy website development services. If you are not quite ready to talk to us and are instead looking for more information about who we are and what we offer, perhaps one of the following pages will help: Our Professional Values Associations, Memberships, Expertise We are the Genealogists in Franktown, Colorado To request personalized help in finding/ researching your family… please download our Initial Search Questionnaire, fill it out, and email your completed document to ManyRoads (genealogy@many-roads.com) We may be contacted at: ManyRoads division of eirenicon llc 711 Nob Hill Trail Franktown, Colorado 80116 303.660.9400 Or use our…
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Welcome
Like each of you, we are the product of the long journey of our ancestors. All of us are joined together in the stream of humanity and love that makes us who we are.The work and information contained on this site have evolved across the years into this format and represent a long family effort. Inspired and motivated by our predecessors’ efforts, we archive, expand, communicate, and share our family history using today’s web based technologies. If you enjoy our site and wish to see it grow, please place a link from your site to ManyRoads. There is no requirement to request “permission” to link to internal ManyRoads’ pages. The…
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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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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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Allenstein (Ostpreußen) Records
For those interested in, or researching the region(s) near, the former German/ Prussian city of Allenstein Ostpreußen – East Prussia (today the city is known as Olsztyn in Poland) numerous updates have taken place recently with respect to available pre-1945 records. These involve most notably: Churches near the former German city of Allenstein (Ostpreußen) – the Polish city of Olsztyn today. Polish State Archive of Olsztyn ( Archiwum Państwowe w Olsztynie )- the records archive. The man whose leadership is key to bringing these records online is project team leader Bernhard Ostrzinski. Bernhard and his team of dedicated “researchers” publish digital copies of records in the Olsztyn State Archive…
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Add’l Holocaust Resources Uncovered
For those of you who are seeking good sources of information regarding the Holocaust- Shoah, hopefully you will find the following sites of value. While conducting a Holocaust- Shoah site development activity with a colleague from Germany and in performing Shoah client work, I have recently uncovered several extremely valuable websites. Included among these are: The International Tracing Service “ITS Digital Collections Online“ The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)-Countries A general introduction to the EHRI country reports can be found on the EHRI project website. The EHRI also has three very interesting recent BLOG entries: Forced Labourers and the Water Works Camps in the Lublin District Online Finding Aid on…
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Satirical (Persuasive) Maps
Most certainly you, and I, know what maps are. But just to be perfectly clear, here is the primary meaning of the term (definition) from Dictionary.com: […] a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation […] So if that is “what a map is” then what is a satirical or persuasive map? It should come as little surprise that there is a class of Maps (most generally known as Satirical or Persuasive Maps). These reasonably rare and unique maps…
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Recent Mennonite Record Discovery
If like me you are always in search of new Prussian Mennonite records, my recent discovery of Mennonite Church records located in Berlin may be of interest. The records are I stumbled upon are located in the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin (The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage). The archives offer online (Free) access to the Kirchenbücher von Mennonitengemeinden (Church Books of the Mennonite Communities); they cover the years 1661 – 1905. The communities included in this archive are those Mennonite Communities formerly in Königsberg, Markushof, Montau und Gruppe, Thiensdorf. All of these communities were ethnically cleansed of Mennonites following WW2 by the Soviets and their allies;…
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Old Radio Shows
The radio shows archived on ManyRoads are provided as an homage to my father. All have been obtained from the Internet and are in the public domain, so far as I am able to determine. This library represents shows he talked about when I was young, as well as some I remember from years gone by. It is my hope that he, and you, will find this library interesting, entertaining and perhaps a bit nostalgic. This library, currently with just under 1400 radio shows, will be expanded as I research, locate, and obtain additional materials.
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GULAG
Many families, like mine, were victims of the Soviet GULAG system. My oma (maternal grand mother) spent more than two years in a Central Asian Gulag from 1945 to 1947. You may read her story in an earlier post on ManyRoads: Frieda Senger- Post WW2 Gulag. To celebrate 70 years since her release, I have gathered and provide the following listing of GULAG related Internet sites: Gulags (Links) Should you be aware of additional Internet GULAG resources, please contact me with requisite ‘link information’.
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Early western (US) travels, 1748-1846
If you are attempting to better understand what the United States may have looked like when your early European ancestors were moving westward, this set of texts can help you visualize and better understand those by-gone days. This collection is deemed to be among the best genealogical and historical works available. Title Early western travels, 1748-1846 : a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement Contributor Names Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed. Created / Published Cleveland, Ohio : The Arthur H.…
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Clyde Rabideau 1936-2017
I am glad to have known and worked with Clyde M. Rabideau Sr., the best genealogist and historian the Robidoux family has ever known. His genealogical efforts, love of family, and heritage are an inspiration. He will be missed, but his work will live on.
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Luise Senger WW2 and after
Now that my mother is no longer with us, I think it is safe to share her WW2 and post-WW2 military career(s). This written remembrance of Luise Senger’s Military Service was related to Mark Rabideau by Luise (Senger) Rabideau in December of 2005 and was approved by her for publication in our family history after her death. Luise Senger was a Lieutenant in the Deutsche Luftwaffe during WWII. (This is extraordinarily rare as there are essentially “no records” of female officers in the WW2 Deutsche Luftwaffe.) She served in Berlin, Bromberg, Munich as well as other German Air Force bases. On January 14, 1945, she departed Fliegerhorst Bromberg and was…
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Native Peoples & Indian wars of 1665-1779
I am in the process of gathering materials related to the North Eastern (New England/ New York & Bas Canada) Native Peoples, plus the wars between those Native Peoples and the European invaders encroaching upon them. My family, perhaps like yours, comes from both sides of that invasion. The libraries referred to on this page will change and evolve in the coming weeks. Currently our library is approaching 50 Documents (texts), images, etc., with more than 5,000 pages of information. I will publish another notice, both here and on social media, when I feel I have found the bulk of what I am likely to uncover. As with most of…
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Beverwyck, Rensselaerswyck, Fort Orange Research
Long ago and far away, in an alternate universe, there were nascent Dutch Communities in what is today’s upstate New York. These were the communities of Beverwyck, Fort Orange, and Rensselaerswyck, all parts of New Netherland. My family (the Rabideau- Deyos) are directly descended from members of those early Hudson and Mohawk Valley European settlements. As with many communities which were absorbed and subsumed by others, plus with the advancement of time, materials and data become increasingly rare. Because I am actively researching this region, as well as, my ancestors of those times and places, I have scoured the Internet for useful materials. In order to make access to these materials…
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Pre-colonial & Colonial Mohawk & Hudson River Valleys Documents
Brodhead, John Romeyn, 1814-1873; Fernow, Berthold, 1837-1908. 1n; O’Callaghan, E. B. (Edmund Bailey), 1797-1880. cn; New York (State). Legislature These documents were published 1853 and are not under copyright. They were sourced from the Internet Archive. The documents here are comprised of some 10,000 pages of original Dutch, French, etc. materials. Their primary focus is the Hudson and Mohawk River Valley areas. Vols. 1-11, edited, and the French and Dutch manuscripts translated, by E.B. O’Callaghan Vols. 12-15, compiled, edited, and the foreign documents translated by B. Fernow Vol. 12 has imprint: Albany, The Argus company Vol. 12 has special t.-p. only: Documents relating to the history of the Dutch and…
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Mennonite, Hutterite, Amish Records Coming Online!
If you are interested in Mennonite, Hutterite, Amish research, this announcement is very significant. Archion.de is in the process of providing online access to a significant body of Mennonite, Hutterite and Amish records. The Mennonite Research Center operated by the Mennonite Historical Society (Mennonitscher Geschichtsverein e.V.) offers remembrance and a memory storage of the Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish. It includes a library and an archive and plus an extensive collection of material concerning the history of the Anabaptist movement. It also stores original church books of some German, Ukrainian and Polish Mennonite communities. Note: Mennonite church books are often in poor condition. Because of the records fragility, on site…
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New Netherlands
New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland, Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Seven United Netherlands that was located on the East Coast of North America. (source: Wikipedia) On this page, we provide links to both ManyRoads and remotely hosted documents we find helpful in researching our early North American ancestors. If you would like more background information on the region(s) covered, as well as time period, please read the materials on the following links: New Netherland (Wikipedia) A Tour of New Netherland: A Lost World (New Netherland Institute) ManyRoads New Netherlands Library Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York (15 volumes;…
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WW2 & its aftermath (Videos)
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Flucht und Verteibung – Flight & Expulsion (Videos)
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Elbing (Elbląg) Historical Videos
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Preußen in der Vergangenheit – Prussia in the Past (Videos)
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Music Audio Files
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East Prussia – Ostpreußen
Our Prussian Tutorial Materials have been updated and moved. A Brief History (Background) East Prussia (Ostpreußen), a former province of Prussia and the 2. und 3. Deutsches Reichs (2nd & 3rd German Empires), was located in extreme Northeast Germany (existed prior to 1945; it was dissolved in 1945). The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in Ermland, Polish: Masuria) and drained by several rivers including the Nemen (Nieman). Its Baltic coast is deeply indented by the Vistula Lagoon (Frisches Haff) and by the Gulf of Kursh (Kurisches Haff). Historically, East Prussia was at the center of…
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Finding Genealogy Data in Central & Eastern Europe
Lately, I have received a significant number of inquiries regarding how to ‘best’ approach the conduct of German- Prussian- Polish- Shoah research. The questions I have received point to a number of common questions, without specifically re-stating the questions, I will detail their responses here: I understand that English-speakers want European Records written and searchable in English. However… I am obligated to point out that our European ancestors may have spoken and written in languages other than English; and so… their records will ‘most likely’ be in their native languages (or perhaps Latin, Hebrew). As for genealogy and/or data search functions, I personally do not totally trust or rely on…
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Casualty Lists of World War I Austria-Hungary 1914-1919
A century ago, Austro-Hungarian forefathers fought, lived, and died in the horrors of World War I. Many sons, brothers and fathers were drafted into the military. Millions were wounded, captured or died. Their fates were published in the casualty lists of Austria-Hungary. Unfortunately, there is no effective index for these lists. Any full-text search yields unsatisfactory results due to the poor print quality of the lists. Therefore, GenTeam has decided to create a fully searchable index for these records. This enormous task cannot be accomplished without your help. Will you, please, help the GenTeam through your assistance? Please help keep these soldiers from being forgotten. Particulars on how you can help are available from the…
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Henß Familie aus Beuern (Henß Family of Beuern)
This article is posted today in honor of what would have been my father-in-law’s (Robert R. Henß) 90th birthday… and with gratitude and appreciation of our Henß Family in Germany (Ulrike und Günter). We are pleased to share a small number of Henß related images, photos, and sketches. I will work on translating and presenting numerous additional materials on ManyRoads during this next year (2017). But for now, I will provide access to the drawings, images, etc. here as I obtain them. Be advised these materials are in flux and will most certainly evolve and ‘grow’. Liebe Ulrike und Günter, vielen dank für deine Mühe! (Thank you very much for all your…
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Middle Ages, Hanseatic League, & Teutonic Knights
If you are interested in detailed histories and maps of North & Central Europe during the times between 1000 and 1600 the following should prove helpful. Be advised these pages “automagically” update as I discover and save new documents. Histories of Middle Ages Europe: Detailed maps of the Teutonic Order regions of Europe: Maps of the early Baltic region of Europe:
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The beginning of World War 2- Beginn Zweiter Weltkrieg
Adolf Hitler: Reichstagsrede mit Kriegserklärung an Polen vom 01.09.1939 Abgeordnete! Männer des deutschen Reichstages! The recording of Hitler’s address is below. Note: Adolf Hitler is first introduced and begins speaking about 55 seconds into the recording. Seit Monaten leiden wir alle unter der Qual eines Problems, das uns auch der Versailler Vertrag, d.h. das Versailler Diktat, einst beschert hat, eines Problems, das in seiner Ausartung und Entartung für uns unerträglich geworden war. Danzig war und ist eine deutsche Stadt.Der Korridor war und ist deutsch. Alle diese Gebiete verdanken ihre kulturelle Erschliessung ausschliesslich dem deutschen Volke. Ohne das deutsche Volk würde in all diesen Östlichen Gebieten tiefste Barbarei herrschen. Danzig wurde…
