Last week I posted about the excitement of discovering some German newspapers in Google Books. The exploration has taken a fair bit of time, even without getting down to full transcriptions and translations. I thought I’d share some practical tips I’ve developed as I’ve gone along bearing in mind the limitations I mentioned in my … More Searching German Newspapers/Books
Following on my presentation today as part of National Family History Month and hosted by Caloundra Family History Research Inc, I’m listing some research options. German Newspapers can be searched: https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de/search/simple With more difficulty through Google Books (not newspapers): https://books.google.com.au/ My tips for searching can be reviewed in this blog post: https://cassmobfamilyhistory.com/2012/10/23/searching-german-newspapersbooks/ https://cassmobfamilyhistory.com/2019/05/31/finding-the-fass-in-bavarian-papers/ My Dorfprozelten … More Tips for German research
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. N is for Newspapers Once upon a time, in those dark, pre-digital days, I wore my eyes out looking at microfilm after microfilm of newspapers like all good family historians. Searching them … More N is for NEWSPAPERS
Shauna Hicks has set us all a goal of 52 weeks of Genealogical Records. The topic for Week 11 (how did that happen?!) is Newspapers. Now, like most genies I love newspapers and being a bit of an old fogey I’ve used them extensively over the years. Once upon a time it was only possible … More 52 weeks of Genealogical Records: Newspapers
After the recent blogging drought, I’ve been doing some research into my Dorfprozelten families from Bavaria, with a focus on discoveries from the digitised German newspapers from Google books. Researchers with German ancestry might find today’s posts on my much-neglected From Dorfprozelten to Australia blog worth a read in case they can apply the results to their own … More German migration news: From Dorfprozelten to Australia
This is Week 44 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. This week’s topic is Offline Newspapers. Being in something of a newspaper mindset lately, I’ve moved this topic up on my planned schedule. Australian family historians are quite rightly enamoured with the astonishing resource we … More Beyond the Internet: Week 44 Offline Newspapers
Having been in something of a blog-storm today I’ve responded to a number of comments made on my posts. I thought it worthwhile to consolidate some of the general tips I’ve passed on in case they’re useful to others. Although focused mainly on the German research under discussion, they have general applicability to other immigrants. … More German (and other) search tips
As I mentioned previously it was the addition of a new member to our facebook site that kicked off all this manic research, mainly because the family connected, however distantly, to my own Happ ancestry in Bavaria. Keith had written that his mother’s grandfather was a Julius Happ and they knew he came from Dorfprozelten … More Last but not least: Julius Happ
Thanks for following along on this post about the Happ family who emigrated to the USA. Translation: If you would like to read this post in a different language you can click here. Emigration of Raimund/Raymond Happ As we know from the previous post, Raimund emigrated with his sister Anna Apollonia in 1869. He was only seventeen … More The emigrating Happs Part 2: Raimund Happ
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. We are in sight of the end now with the letter Y which appropriately gives us: Y is for YAWN: We’ve been at this series for 25 weeks now so … More Family History Alphabet: Y is for yearning and yawning
Family history across the seas 