I studied German at the Goethe Institute for 3 months in 1974 and my reading-speaking skills in German are fair.
My mother and fathers families came from all over Germany,Scandinavia and England plus my wife’s family from France.
I have joined mailing lists from the main areas like Saxony,Westfalen,Prussia,Denmark and Norway but the daily volume of postings is impossible to manage!
Is there a way to find associations with restricted areas in line with my family origins with a lower volume of topics relevant to me? Or is this a situation I just have to “live with it”?
My Germ. areas: Baden-Erzingen Waldshut
Sachsen-Mittelerzgebirge,Zwickau,Greiz “Unknown”
Prussia-Brandenburg,Pommeren.West Preussen
Schleswig-Munkbarup
Westfalen-Plettenberg
My main tree on ancestry.com is now
Kisling_Dost_2010-09-27
I’m 70 years old and retired-spending 4-5 hours a day online with family history using FTW 2012 and Ancestry.com premium membership.I have other paid memberships to associations covering the areas my family settled in the USA from 1860-1880 Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin.
I will appreciate any advise on where to focus my research in Germany,
Roland (Dennis) Kisling (Kiessling)
Somerset Wisconsin USA
dkisling@msn.com
dkisling@gmail.com
dkisling skype
Hi Dennis--one way to manage the volume of mailing list posts is to subscribe to the "digest" version of each mailing list. Instead of receiving each post individually, you get one email containing several posts. Instructions on how to change to the digest should be on the same webpage that you used to sign up for the list; see the bottom of this Sachsen-Anhalt email for the URL for this list.
My people are from Prussia (Pomerania, Sachsen-Anhalt, Hameln), Lower Austria, and Yankee 10 generations back to 50 years post-Mayflower. I grew up in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. If you haven't already, you might consider joining the Germanic Genealogy Society based in St. Paul, MN. Here's their webpage: http://www.ggsmn.org/default.htm. They have quarterly meetings in St. Paul and if you could attend one, someone might be able to help you direct your research.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Cindy Lindau
German surnames DAEKE, KLAAR, LAACK, LINDAU, SCHROEDER
Good morning Cindy
I am off the list, just replying to you regarding your suggestion to
Dennis. I went on the Germanic Genealogy Society website as per your
suggestion to him. I was really impressed and will be joining today. I
was at a workshop last weekend put on by the Wisconsin Historical Society
and the Max Kade Institute and they mentioned the Germanic Genealogy
Society but didn't go in to any detail.
I have been on the sachsen-anhalt list for about 9 months but haven't seen
many if any posts for the region I am interested in, Kries Salzwedel. You
haven't seen a list for this region? It might be called something like the
Altmark list as this is the historic name for this region. I am dependent
on google translator to read the messages which can be interesting and
occasionally quite funny. I have recently discovered a relative living in
the Kries Salzwedel area and he has already been quite helpful.
All of my research on the Hoelzen family is now focused in Germany as the
US family history was already well documented. I am now trying to identify
sources for 19th century civil records. I have already exhausted the church
records available via the LDS microfilm. They were quite helpful but not
complete
Well happy researching maybe we will run in to each other at some point.
Randy Hoelzen
West Salem, WI