The German Interest Group (GIG), part of the Iowa Genealogical Society. will be holding their Fifteenth annual German Genealogical Conference on June 30 at the Des Moines Botanical Center, 909 East River Drive, Des Moines, IA. Time is 8:45 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday. Ernst Thode will be with us this year. He is best known for his German-English Genealogical Dictionary. Other books he hs authoried are Address Book for Germanic Genealogy , and Genealogical Gazetter of Alsace-Lorraine, and co-author with Christ Anderson of a Genalogist's Guide to Discovering Your Germanic Ancestors. 8:45 AM - 4:00 PM On June 29, the Friday evening before the conference there will be a special session from 7 PM to 9 PM at the Iowa Genealogical Library. The tiouc wukk be, "Coping with German Border Changes and the importance of Dates". Did your ancestor seem to move around? Perhaps it was the border that did the moving. There is no charge for this session and anyone can attend. Topics for Saturday are: 1. Getting started in German Research for Newbies. 2. How to Figure Out What That Name Really Was. 3. Genealogy websites in Germany. 4. Responding to Research Issues. There will be books for sale. Mr. Thode will be happy to autograph copies of his books. We will not be able to accept credit cards...checks and cash only. Lunch will be included. The IGS library will be open Sunday July 1 from 10 AM to 2 PM for those wanting to do research. Just being ina group of people that share your interests is a great experience. The cost for non-IGS Members postmarked before June 22, 2007 $40.00 The cost for IGS Members postmarked before June 22, 2007 35.00 All registrations mailed after June 22, please add $5.00. Mail your registration to German Interest Group c/o LInda Enghausen 7011 oak Brook Drive, Urbandale, IA 50322-4838 515-278-1982 Please let us know if you will attend Friday night and/or Sunday.
For those researching German locations, I've just opened a database at http://www.tavistock.net/?section=474 that contains over 27,000 towns and villages. Listings give State, Administrative region and County. This database shows locations by their present, not historical, situation and does not include ALL locations in Germany. An additional database entry screen will be added this weekend to allow individuals to add towns which were missed. The system will search by Village or County. It has an error currently which doesn't recognize umlauts. This will be fixed this weekend. In the meantime, enter a minimum 4 character search that doesn't include the umlauted character. i.e. for Aarmühle, enter Aarm i.e. for Abtlöbnitz, enter bnitz If anyone would like to help in expanding on this database, please let me know. There are a number of things I'd like to add but don't have the time to do it alone. JK Judy McClure wrote: > The German Interest Group (GIG), part of the Iowa Genealogical Society. will be holding their Fifteenth annual German Genealogical Conference on June 30 at the Des Moines Botanical Center, 909 East River Drive, Des Moines, IA. > Time is 8:45 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday. > > Ernst Thode will be with us this year. He is best known for his German-English Genealogical Dictionary. Other books he hs authoried are Address Book for Germanic Genealogy , and Genealogical Gazetter of Alsace-Lorraine, and co-author with Christ Anderson of a Genalogist's Guide to Discovering Your Germanic Ancestors. 8:45 AM - 4:00 PM > > On June 29, the Friday evening before the conference there will be a special session from 7 PM to 9 PM at the Iowa Genealogical Library. The tiouc wukk be, "Coping with German Border Changes and the importance of Dates". Did your ancestor seem to move around? Perhaps it was the border that did the moving. There is no charge for this session and anyone can attend. > > Topics for Saturday are: > 1. Getting started in German Research for Newbies. > > 2. How to Figure Out What That Name Really Was. > > 3. Genealogy websites in Germany. > > 4. Responding to Research Issues. > > There will be books for sale. Mr. Thode will be happy to autograph copies of his books. We will not be able to accept credit cards...checks and cash only. > > Lunch will be included. > > The IGS library will be open Sunday July 1 from 10 AM to 2 PM for those wanting to do research. > > Just being ina group of people that share your interests is a great experience. > > The cost for non-IGS Members postmarked before June 22, 2007 $40.00 > The cost for IGS Members postmarked before June 22, 2007 35.00 > All registrations mailed after June 22, please add $5.00. > > Mail your registration to German Interest Group c/o LInda Enghausen > 7011 oak Brook Drive, Urbandale, IA 50322-4838 > 515-278-1982 > Please let us know if you will attend Friday night and/or Sunday. > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >