Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about translation and translating records for family research from German, Swedish, Norwegian, and other European languages to English for genealogy
My translation of the death record of Anna Koenig Linde of Freienwalde, Pomerania. Anna is my 4G-grandmother on my maternal grandmother's side. She was born 6 Jun 1762, probably in Freienwalde, which is now [...]
These Chicago German-Language Newspaper Obituaries helped me break through my Austrian genealogy brick wall. Searching for an Austrian Birthplace Churchyard at the Ladis Catholic Church. Regular readers know how elusive Gottfried Hann, [...]
Finding my Prussian 5G-Grandparents at SLIG 2019 caused a huge happy dance. The SLIG 2019 German class taught me how to translate entries in a key German resource: the 219-volume Deutsches Geschlechterbuch, (more commonly known [...]
It's time for fun with German genealogy at SLIG 2019. You say you wanted to learn from the estimable Herr Lehrer Warren Bittner, but you couldn't make it to SLIG? What are my fellow masochists [...]
