This message should truly be annoying to you as part of it I had sent to the List several years ago and as some of its referred URLs may be well beneath your wants or needs. BUT.... The German Information Center USA issues various e-newsletters each week. The prime e-newsletter appears to be "This Week in Germany" (TWIG). "This Week in Germany" covers a number of subject; the basis sections are Information Services, Culture & Life, Education & Research, Business & Technology and Government & Politics. These sections cover articles of German activity across a wide variety of individual subjects right on down to German wines and Genealogy. If you care to see what is involved in "This Week in Germany", several URLS which identify its messages are listed below. A short cut to a weekly subscription would be a Subscribe e-mail to < subscribe-gic-e@lyris.globescope.com >. The home page for The German Information Center USA is < http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/missions/gic.html >. The current December 21 e-newsletter should be offered in brief (mostly through links) at < http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week.html >. This current issue has personal memories of Germanic ordinary people from the end of World War II. The archives of TWIG can be found at < http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/archive.html >. -------- And now the BIG BUT.... The November 16 issue of a related newsletter "Germany in Class" offers a lead-in to an article on "Discover GERMAN ORIGINality", < http://germanoriginality.com/ >. Numerous genealogical URLs are offered from the Link near the bottom of that page through < http://germanoriginality.com/heritage/genealogy.php > opening to < http://germanoriginality.com/heritage/genealogy_links.php >. As I mentioned, above, that many of the referred sites may be below the level of your wants or needs. Several of the personal URLs near the top of the linked page are ones I usually avoid as though they were a plague but many of the other listed addresses could be of value. djweber djwdjw@ix.netcom.com