Benji, A couple of months ago, the US Government released its new online index to its vast library of Serial Publications. This database is called "US Serials Set, Digital Collection," and is available through any library that subscribes to the Lexus-Nexus database collection. BPL (Birmingham, AL) has it on their website, but you would need a library card to access it from your home. The US SERIALS SET is also still available on the large set of old-fashioned opaque microform cards, for which no library I have seen has a printer; one can only view them. So, the online digital version is a VAST IMPROVEMENT! HOWEVER, every major city has a library that subscribes to Lexus-Nexus databases and every medium to large city in the US has from one to six government documents depositories, usually at public libraries, colleges, and universities. You may have a subscribing library in your area, too, that has the L-N databases even though you are "offshore." In order to find your Report No. 1841 you will need the following info, some of which you already had, and the rest of which I looked up for you at BPL today: 1--Number of Congress (81st) 2--Number of the Session of Congress (2nd) 3--House of Congress (House of Representatives) 4--Year of the Report (1950) 5--Volume and Serial Number (vol. 2, Ser. #11379) 6---Report Number (H.rp.1841) If you do not have a library in your area that subscribes to these L-N databases, perhaps I can download the file and attach it to an email, although it may exceed email attachment limits (the file is moderately huge -- over 10MB for the entire 91 pp, but they also break it up into two 5-MB parts (pp 1-50 and pp 51-91). So I might be able to send each part separately from home (I am at BPL now and cannot attach them here). Below is the info copied from the download page: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIAL-SET-ID: 11379 H.rp.1841 TITLE: Expellees and refugees of German ethnic origin. DESCRIPTIVE-TITLE: Expellees and refugees of German ethnic origin DOCUMENT-DATE: March 24, 1950 AUTHOR: Francis Eugene Walter (1894-1963), Democratic Representative from PA, see Biographical Directory of the United States Congress COMMITTEE: Committee of the Whole House, House; Committee on the Judiciary, House DOC-NO: H.rp.1841 SERIAL-VOLUME: 11379 CONGRESS-SESSION: 81-2 (1950-1951) SESSIONAL-VOLUME: 2 LENGTH: 91 pp. SUBJECTS: Birthplace; Displaced Persons Act; Germany; Immigration and emigration; Refugees Contains illustrations and tables Replica of Original [Final OCR and image pending] - Complete (10585KB) Replica of Original [Final OCR and image pending] - Pages 1 To 50 (5371KB) Replica of Original [Final OCR and image pending] - Pages 51 To 91 (5212KB) [Housing Space Available and Housing Space Required] (p. 36 in PDF) 2. Present Living Arrangements for Refugees. (p. 37 in PDF) EMPLOYMENT WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS (p. 42 in PDF) [Employed and unemployed refugees vs. job openings] (p. 43 in PDF) LOAD-DATE: March 15, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let me know if you want me to try attaching these files later from my home computer. Anthony Hubka Birmingham, AL ============================================================== Benjiboh@aol.com wrote: Hi, I hope that US-based list members might be able and willing to help me in my quest. I'm interested to find (and read) the following report: "Expellees and Refugees of German ethnic Origin". Report of a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, HR 2nd Session, Report No. 1841, Pursuant to H. Res. 238, Washington, March 24, 1950 Seems chairman of this committee was: Congressman Francis E. Walter, 15th District, Pennsylvania This is a report about the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia (Bohemia) at the end of WW2 and about the conditions of the forced "Odsun" etc. It is cited in a lot of literature about this topic as a source. I don't live in the US so unfortunately neither do I know where to look for this report, nor am I able to order anything via inter-library-loan etc., therefore 2 questions: 1) How can one get hold of this report to read it? 2) Would anyone know if there exists a book with more in depths info - from/about - this report ? I already search the Internet high and low for more info, but sadly unsucessfully so far. Any further help is much appreciated. Regards, Benji ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== Forgotten how to UNSUBSCRIBE? Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist/mailinglist.html --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.