Hi all Posting this from the other list ... some of you might find it of interest. Thanks Dick Schweiss (List Admin. for) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected] Researching surnames: SCHWEISS .. MEIER .. SCHMITT/SCHMIDT .. STADTHER(R) .. MEHLTRATER My Genealogy Site: http://www.harbornet.com/folks/dick/SchweissFamilyHistory.htm ************************ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 13:35 Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Sudetendeutsche Ortslexicon CD > Dear list, > > Last year about this time I told you about the Sudetendeutsche Ortslexicon -- > a gazetteer of Sudetenland -- was being put on CD in Germany. A number of > you wrote me asking for a copy. I am finally able to send out the copies > and I want to be sure that I have the name and address of everyone who wants > one. I have sent a separate Email to the people who placed orders but I may > have missed someone. If you asked for a CD and did not already get a notice > from me that your disk is ready to send, please Email me to confirm that you > want one and give me your snail mail address. > > If there is anyone else who would like a copy of this CD, please let me know > off list. > > The CD contains a copy of the "Sudtendeutsche Ortslexicon" which is a > gazetteer of all of the towns and villages of the former Sudetenlands, now a > part of the CR. It outlines the location of the places (there are maps on the > disk) and the administrative districts they belonged to at different points > in time. > > There are some other books on the CD: A Heimatbuch about the Luditz > district, one about the town of Schoenau (Scho"nau) and one about a parish > community in the district of the Tepl Monastery. The author has also added > an audio portion with examples of Sudeten dialect and some personal > information to include his own family tree with roots in Schoenau. > > The CD is in German but there are instructions in English that tell you how > to navigate through it, especially about how to use and understand the data > in the Sudeten gazetteer and how to print the photos and sample documents > found in the Heimat books. > > Please understand that the Sudeten gazetteer does not cover the place names > of the interior of CR where the population had only a few German-Bohemians. > It is about the borderlands of the CR that once had a population that was > more than 95% German-speaking. > > Karen Hobbs > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Forgotten how to UNSUBSCRIBE? > Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist.html > > > >