I speak German, so that's no problem. They were from Bayern, Hessen, and the Alsace. Maybe I should try the rootsweb message boards for those areas? best, Paul On 30 MFómh 2006, at 4:55 pm, Marie Van Laeys wrote: > Paul, > You did not say where in Germany for your Mother's family. A very good > place on the internet would be rootsweb message board for Saxony. Get > yourself a good German dictionary learn the basic words for birth, > marriage > and death for your films at LDS you will need some basics for the > films. > Remember not all villages are available on film and many records were > destroyed during WWII. Also if your not familiar with > www.familysearch.com > for searching rudimentary names there is also a option for their > library on > the top of the page....and good hunting. > > Marie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "eile" <eile@comcast.net> > To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:23 PM > Subject: Re: [G-P-L] ancestry > > > I have had the trial version on ancestry several times, so I have > exhausted the census records there. They are very, very good, no > doubt. It's great to be at home and do that kind of research, for free > or for $30 a month. > > Now, I am thinking on foreign records, which means German on my > mother's side. > > However, based on Marie's recent comments, I am now thinking on not > using ancestry. > > Paul > > On 30 MFómh 2006, at 3:07 pm, Rujan2000@aol.com wrote: > >> I have been on Ancestry for many years. My search of passengers >> hasn't been >> productive on line, so cannot recommend it for that. But for Census >> it's >> tops. You can search by birth year, by name, by county, by state (if >> you're >> game to try) and also different spellings of either surname or given >> name, or >> country of origin. For any of you considering subscribing....divide >> the fee >> by 12 and you'll see just how much it's costing by comparison to >> traveling to >> libraries, copying charges and the parking fees. I am home and can >> work on >> genealogy any time of the day. Check the Ancestry web site to see >> what is >> offered. The Census searching has improved 100% since I first >> subscribed. >> Ruth >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >