Thanks! I'll see what I can find! Best regards, Elizabeth Culhane Fairport, New York ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Siemon" <jsiemon@bcpl.net> To: <MDGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [MDGEN] German newspaper for Baltimore > The longest lasting and most popular German paper in Baltimore was "Der > Deutsche Correspondent." J. Thomas Scharf, in his "History of Baltimore > City and County," published in 1881, indicates it was started in 1841. He > devoted over two pages to the paper and its founder. > > Scharf wrote: > "It has risen from a weekly to a bi-weekly, and lastly to a well-printed > daily, circulating, we may say without exageration, "where'er the German > tongue is spoken," and always welcomed, because it is firm in purpose, > honest in expression, and reliable in its contents." > > The Enoch Pratt Library has them on microfilm and issues run to about 1918. > They may do lookups if you contact them, but this is a tedious lookup if you > don't understand German. I would recommend that you need the date of death > before asking. My Great Grandfather's death was listed in the paper in May > 1898; but, unless I missed them, I could not find any death notices at all > in issues I looked at from the 1870's and 1880's. Contact info for the > Maryland Department at the Pratt is at > http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/slrc/md/contact.html > > Other German papers Scharf mentions are: > -- "The Novelleu Zeitung", a weekly published by the "Correspondent" in > 1853. > --"Die Katholische Volks-Zeitung," a very successful German Catholic > weekly, started in 1860. It was distributed nationally, "one of the > widest-circulated papers in the US" in 1881. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth Culhane" <eculhane@rochester.rr.com> > To: <MDGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 2:41 PM > Subject: [MDGEN] German newspaper for Baltimore > > > > Hello, > > Is anyone familiar with a German newspaper which may have carried obits in > the late 1800's in the Baltimore or surrounding area? > > > > I'm looking for an obit for Hartmann Roeder who died around then. > > > > Thanks, > > Elizabeth Culhane > > Fairport, New York > > > > > > ==== MDGEN Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the list : MDGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com or if you are > on the Digest replace the L with D and > > Put unsubscribe in the subject line > > > > > > > ==== MDGEN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list : MDGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest replace the L with D and > Put unsubscribe in the subject line > >