A website under construction is worth bookmarking for your research notebook. All that seems to be up right now is a home page but it looks like it may be an important site when it becomes operational -- they say that should happen in July. They plan to be a central clearing house for genealogical databases. I suspect they may have plans to offer free service in the beginning and service by subscription after that. They intend to include access to genealogical news, histories including culture and traditions, and some instruction. They are teamed with Provo Labs to use their new search engine which is supposed to be much faster than other search engines now available. Check out this website, and then visit it again from time to time to learn what they have added. http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/ If you cannot get there by using the URL above do a search with: World vital records Look for a hit with the URL above and click on that one. Also look at the other hits you get with that search. There are a number of interesting ones. Search with Google or Yahoo and there may be an option to translate German sites among the hits. Karen

Thank you for this link, Karen. I look forward to searching their content when the site is complete. They seem to be touting themselves as the second largest geneology site in the world. Does anyone know which site is the largest in the world? Eileen Souza Eldersburg, MD 21784 -----Original Message----- From: KarenHob@aol.com [mailto:KarenHob@aol.com] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:21 PM To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Genealogy database website under construction A website under construction is worth bookmarking for your research notebook. All that seems to be up right now is a home page but it looks like it may be an important site when it becomes operational -- they say that should happen in July. They plan to be a central clearing house for genealogical databases. I suspect they may have plans to offer free service in the beginning and service by subscription after that. They intend to include access to genealogical news, histories including culture and traditions, and some instruction. They are teamed with Provo Labs to use their new search engine which is supposed to be much faster than other search engines now available. Check out this website, and then visit it again from time to time to learn what they have added. http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/ If you cannot get there by using the URL above do a search with: World vital records Look for a hit with the URL above and click on that one. Also look at the other hits you get with that search. There are a number of interesting ones. Search with Google or Yahoo and there may be an option to translate German sites among the hits. Karen ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/

I always thought that www.geneanet.com was the largest. I found a possible "missing link" to my French ancestry. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Eileen Souza [mailto:eileen.souza@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:47 PM To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Genealogy database website under construction Thank you for this link, Karen. I look forward to searching their content when the site is complete. They seem to be touting themselves as the second largest geneology site in the world. Does anyone know which site is the largest in the world? Eileen Souza Eldersburg, MD 21784 -----Original Message----- From: KarenHob@aol.com [mailto:KarenHob@aol.com] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:21 PM To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Genealogy database website under construction A website under construction is worth bookmarking for your research notebook. All that seems to be up right now is a home page but it looks like it may be an important site when it becomes operational -- they say that should happen in July. They plan to be a central clearing house for genealogical databases. I suspect they may have plans to offer free service in the beginning and service by subscription after that. They intend to include access to genealogical news, histories including culture and traditions, and some instruction. They are teamed with Provo Labs to use their new search engine which is supposed to be much faster than other search engines now available. Check out this website, and then visit it again from time to time to learn what they have added. http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/ If you cannot get there by using the URL above do a search with: World vital records Look for a hit with the URL above and click on that one. Also look at the other hits you get with that search. There are a number of interesting ones. Search with Google or Yahoo and there may be an option to translate German sites among the hits. Karen ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== Would you like to see messages that were posted before you joined the list? To search the archives, go to: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GERMAN-BOHEMIAN -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/359 - Release Date: 6/8/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/359 - Release Date: 6/8/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/359 - Release Date: 6/8/2006