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 > >