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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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FREE Prussian-German-Polish-Shoah workshop
Almost every month (on the second Thursday) ManyRoads hosts a FREE Prussian-German-Polish-Shoah workshop at the Parker LDS Family History Center on Bayou Gulch Road across from Ponderosa High School (in Parker, Colorado). Most every month… Date: 2nd Thursday of the month Time: 1300 hours (1 pm. for you civilians) Location Map: Location Map Address: 7160 E Bayou Gulch Rd Parker CO 80134 United States Phone: 1-720-851-0916 E-mail: CO-Parker@ldsmail.net As always, ManyRoads ‘nearly’ guarantees that this Free Workshop is “worth every penny!” Bring your posers, questions, brickwalls… If you’d like us to speak to your group please view our… Speaker Specifics…
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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
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 the development of historical Prussia. Up to the 16th…
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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…
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On-line Prussian, Ukrainian, Russian Mennonite Records
West Prussian Property Records from Polish Archives The West Prussian Property Records are housed at Bethel College in Kansas. Please respect their rules & guidance when using the records. To quote from the Bethel College site: Why you might not be able to find someone in a property record for a specific village: Your ancestor was not a property owner. Note that by 1783 a large percentage of the Mennonite families in West Prussia were landless. This was one of the reasons for emigration to Russia. There are lists of Mennonite landowners for 1789 and 1824 (for Marienwerder region), as well as a list of those who acquired land between 1789 and 1798 and…
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Mennonites, Zeyer, and the Holocaust
Sometimes genealogy research leads to unexpected places. It can dash assumptions and destroy illusions; such was the result of my casual search for information and photographs from the ‘former’ area of Zeyer in Kreis Elbing. I had hoped to find photos of churches and hidden information about the community; instead I uncovered something more ominous and disturbing. Perhaps like many of you, I had always assumed that Mennonites did their best to avoid military service as well as political involvement in more ‘earthly’ pursuits. I had assumed Mennonites were people of peace. I even have their pages labelled as such here on ManyRoads. But, I was wrong. The first revelation…
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Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums
General Journal of Judaica These documents are all hosted at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main Digitale Sammlungen as part of their Judaica Collection Compact Memory Title: Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums : ein unpartheiisches Organ für alles jüdische Interesse in Betreff von Politik, Religion, Literatur, Geschichte, Sprachkunde und Belletristik Published: Berlin : Engel, 1.1837 – 86.1922,9 Annotation: Periodizität: ab 84.1920,27(9.Jul.) 14-tägl., ab 4.1840 wöchentl., anfangs 2x wöchentl.; Aufl. ca. 1845: 1 600 Language: German Electronic Edition: New York, NY : New York Public Library, 2011 Volumes available for the years 1837- 1922.
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Preußische Jahrbücher- Prussian Yearbooks (1859-1935)
These texts are located on the web at the Elbląg Digital Library, the Internet Archive, Google, University of Munich and beyond…. They are not hosted on ManyRoads (all are free to read and download). As with most texts on ManyRoads these are all in DJVU format, all are electronically searchable, as well. Please note: should you have difficulty with any of the document formats we provide, you should download and use a tool like Calibre. Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books; it runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. A few of the Yearbooks are missing; if…
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East & West Prussia (WW2-era)
The Senger Farm and their Heimatland (homeland) was about 9km. from Elbing in Westpreußen (West Prussia) also known as Freie Stadt Danzig – Free City (State) of Danzig (1920- 1939). This album includes place images and event related photographs of that region. The images in this gallery focus on the time and events of WW2 (such as images are available). For more details, information, and writings regarding our Senger family, please visit the Senger genealogy page. Be advised we are always looking for new materials! Should you have photographic materials you are willing to share with us and our readers, please contact us directly. WW2 & Post-WW2 Photos of Ost…
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Demise of the Elbing Synagogue and Jewish Community
November 9-10, 1938 – “Kristallnacht” Elbing, Germany (today Elbląg, Poland) On the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 in the presence of the Mayor (Johannes O. H. Woelk), of Elbing, Germany officials of the Gestapo, the SS, the Elbing Fire Brigade, set fire to the Elbing synagogue and Jewish community house. Jewish men were arrested, beaten and robbed of their property. Windows were broken in all the Jewish shops in the city. At two o’clock in the morning, Elbing was steeped in a damp darkness and fog. Lantern light barely broke through the darkness. A large portion of the city was awake. Dressed in long military coats, people marched…
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Official Journals of Pommern, Silesia, Ostpreußen, Westpreußen
The documents listed below are all hosted on the Internet Archive, are freely accessible and available for download. As I uncover additional Official Government Journals, I will place links on this page. The following lists of documents are all managed externally to ManyRoads. Official Journal of the Government in Breslau -Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Breslau Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Bromberg – Amtsblatt der Preußischen Regierung zu Bromberg Official Journal of the Government in Danzig -AmtsBlatt der Regierung zu Danzig Official Journal of the Provincial Government in Gumbinnen – Amtsblatt des Regierungspräsidenten in Gumbinnen Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Königsberg – Amtsblatt der Preußischen Regierung zu…
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Quick & Easy History
By way of making history a ‘little bit’ more interesting and fun, here are numerous YouTube presentations. Hopefully they will help provide some historical perspective for what happened to your European/ North American forebears, and when. Be advised the form and format of these videos are ‘diverse’. Their length and ‘professionalism’ (slickness) also varies greatly. Nonetheless, I hope you find the videos informative with easy to digest data. Contents Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins European History 3000BC to present History of Europe (3000 BC – 2013 AD) The Holy Roman Empire 1000 Years Time-Lapse Map of Europe (1000 – 2000 AD) Various Major European/ World Wars The Napoleonic Wars: Every…
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Clonezilla & GPartEd- your disks, your data
If you use computers, there are times when certain rather daunting maintenance and recovery tasks need to be ‘undertaken’. If you are like me, you want these tasks to be easy, straightforward, and ‘free’. You also want the ‘tools’ you use to work regardless of the operating system installed on your PC/ CPU. I can’t guarantee that these tools will work in every situation, but they will work in most. They are also available to you at no-cost. The tools in this posting include: GPartEd: to partition and/or resize disks Clonezilla: to clone your PC environment GPartEd GPartEd is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.…
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Shoah Research (Holocaust) Resources
For those conducting Shoah (Holocaust) research, you know how difficult good resources and information are to find. Recently I came across a number of ‘less well-known’ (to me) web sites that offer a wealth of source and context information. Hopefully, these links will be of some use in your research efforts. Nazi holocaust documents found: 6,300 files discovered behind wall of Budapest apartment Many educators appreciate the value of using primary source materials in the classroom. The documents selected for this section provide many possibilities for classroom discussion or student activities. The Virginia Holocaust Museum BYU Harold B. Lee Library Shoah (Holocaust) Selected Digitized Documents Related to the Holocaust and…
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NEHGS Searchable German Duplicate Records
Today, I received an email from one of our readers (Beth Golden). Beth’s note provided the following information: German Church Book Duplicates (Online at American Ancestors- New England Historic Genealogical Society) Germany, Baden, Church Book Duplicates, 1810-1869 Germany, Prussia, Brandenburg and Posen, Church Book Duplicates, 1794-1874 These collections of church records for the territories of Baden, Brandenburg and Posen, Germany, were obtained from church book duplicates that were annually provided to the German state for use by civil authorities. If a particular region had only one religious institution, the clergy often recorded the births, marriages, and deaths of all local individuals regardless of religious affiliation. Microfilm numbers noted in the…
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LinkedIn Groups- update
Due to the new LinkedIn format and its horribly cumbersome and time consuming Group Management interface, I will no longer review status of my genelogy groups on a daily basis. Given the lack of activity in those groups, I plan to undertake management tasks only when I add new shareable materials. It is my long term intent to find a more friendly (technically speaking) location to host my genealogy groups. In the event I am unable to uncover a more friendly and free hosting location, I will discontinue the groups entirely. The Groups involved include: Ethnic German Genealogy Genealogy Guild Généalogie Quebecois Genealogy Polish- Prussian Genealogy – Polski- Prusy Genealogia…
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Andre Robidou dit L’Espagnol
The following material has been extracted and modified from the original published at Robidou Association of North America. It is placed here under Fair Use; the original article may be viewed in its entirety here. The bulk of this article was researched and authored by Guy Rabideau,the son of Clyde Rabideau. Their website which offers access to their many outstanding genealogical texts may be found at clyderabideau.com. The following history details the life of Andre Robidou dit L’Espagnol prior to and in New France: Circa 1636-1640- Andre Robidou dit L’Espagnol is born in Sainte-Marie, Spain, the son of Manuel Robidou and Catherine Alue/ Alve. (Note: Sainte-Marie is noted as…
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The White Rose Society
It has been some 83 years since the White Rose Society released six (6) anti-Nazi leaflets. By the time these leaflets were released in 1942, Nazism and World War Two were growing and spreading rapidly. Millions were dying. The White Rose Society leaflets contain articulate and powerful ideas and arguments. Sadly, the audience to whom they were provided chose to ignore their message; and, the world paid a horrible price. Arguably the German government’s actions of September 2015 regarding the mass migrations toward Europe echo a response to those times when tolerance, understanding, and inclusion were minority opinions in Germany. The German government today is providing a strong counter-point to…
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Zeyer ev. Kirche Damals
Based on Die Kirche von Zeyer by Rainer-Muller-Glodde – original posting This document contains enhancements to the original content & been reworked for English readers by ManyRoads. Die Kirche von Zeyer wird in der diversen Elbing Literatur gelegentlich erwähnt. Danach wurde sie in der Ordenszeit gegründet. Da die Nogat im Laufe der Jahrhunderte ihren Lauf veränderte erfolgte zweimal die Abtragung und der Kirche und ihr Wiederaufbau, das letzte Mal 1754. Im Ergebnis lag das Dorf Zeyer nördlich der Nogat, ihre Kirche südlich – siehe den Bericht unten. Die Kirche – oder das Pfarrhaus ? – muss jedoch zwischen 1770 und 1773 gebrannt haben, wobei alle Kirchenbücher vernichtet wurden. Deswegen…
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Henss Family
This area contains links to all of our Henss Family related photographic history. Our albums include family images, place images, and event related photographs. For more details, information, and writings regarding our Henss family, please visit the ManyRoads’ Genealogies page. Be advised we are always looking for new materials! Should you have photographic materials you are willing to share with us and our readers, please contact us directly.
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Rabideau Family
This area contains links to all of our Rabideau Family related photographic history. Our albums include family images, place images, and event related photographs. Be advised we are always looking for new materials! Should you have photographic materials you are willing to share with us and our readers, please contact us directly. For more details, information, and writings regarding our Rabideau family, please visit the ManyRoads’ Genealogies page.
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Graves & Memorials
Over the years, we have gathered numerous images and memorabilia about family deaths, burials, cremations, etc. The links below represent those from major our Family gathered and presented in major Family groups. Our albums below include family images, place images, and event related photographs/ scans. For more details, information, and writings regarding our family, please visit the ManyRoads’ Genealogies page. Be advised we are always looking for new materials! Should you have photographic materials you are willing to share with us and our readers, please contact us directly.
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Homes & Buildings
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Preußische Dörfer/ Städte – Prussian Communities
This area of ManyRoads contains links to images and photos of the region immediately surrounding the Senger Farm and Heimatland (homeland). This particular set of photos represents our photographic collection of the former (West & East) Prussian towns and villages in which our Senger forebears lived, worked, and worshipped. For more details, information, and writings regarding our Senger family, please visit the Senger genealogy page. Be advised we are always looking for new materials! Should you have photographic materials you are willing to share with us and our readers, please contact us directly. Preußische Dörfer/ Städte (Fotos) ~ Prussian Communities (Photos) Related Pages: Our collection of images related to the…
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Erna Recht
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Frieda Miemitz geboren Wedhorn
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Hermann Recht und Auguste Kunz Familie
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Otto Wedhorn und Emma Recht Familie
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Willi Wedhorn
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Recht u. Wedhorn Familie
This area contains links to all of our Recht & Wedhorn related photographic history. Our albums include family images, place images, and event related photographs. For more details, information, and writings regarding our Recht & Wedhorn family, please visit the ManyRoads’ Genealogies page. Be advised we are always looking for new materials! Should you have photographic materials you are willing to share with us and our readers, please contact us directly.
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Senger Farm 2010
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Senger Family Houses of Worship
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Robert Senger und Olga Döbel
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Richard Senger und Frieda Recht
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Rudolph Senger
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Perm 36 Gulag
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Papatschen Käserei
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Michael Senger- Adelgunde Kiehl Family
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Heimatland
