Is it a Bird, is it a Plane? No, it’s a search engine-ish?!
Continue reading “AI VS Genealogist Round 2: Perplexity”Having fun with a ChatAI
Recently ChatGTP (an AI-Chat-Bot) and even Ai-Search engines by Microsoft and Google popping up.
While these are very nice to use, I wondered: “Can they help Genealogical researchers yet?”
Continue reading “Having fun with a ChatAI”“Who are my parents anyway?”
For most people, such a question should be answered quite quickly, after all, you grow up with your parents.
But what if you were given up for adoption at birth? In a state that no longer exists? Which intentionally wanted to make it difficult for adopted children to be found again by their biological parents or to find them themselves?
Continue reading ““Who are my parents anyway?””China – Potsdam a (rather) unknown connection
Sometimes coincidences happen that make you wonder. One of these is how I learned about the Ahok House, its inhabitant, why he was important, and how it shaped the understanding of two cultures.
Continue reading “China – Potsdam a (rather) unknown connection”Max Markus: 1 jewish Doctor, 2 Names, and 2 Marriages
When Rumors and luck come together, you might find an interesting Story. Here is the one of Max Markus, the ex-husband of my 1st cousin 2 Removed.
Continue reading “Max Markus: 1 jewish Doctor, 2 Names, and 2 Marriages”Finding immigration dates by indirect ship tracking?!
Can you assume the date someone emigrated into another country by tracking the route?
I tried exactly this with my 1st cousin 2x removed, Käthe Torunski.
Continue reading “Finding immigration dates by indirect ship tracking?!”I stumbled over my own Feet while researching.
Today I stumbled over my own feet. Here is my story, so you maybe get a giggle or be made aware.
Continue reading “I stumbled over my own Feet while researching.”Never trust a Collection just by its name
Sometimes online collections don’t hold what you might expect. Here is a clarification on german Censuses and census alternatives based on a Source from Familysearch.
Since my sleep schedule kicked me out of bed way too early for a Sunday, I started working on Genealogy a bit.
I scrolled through the new Updates at Familysearch thanks to Randy Seaver.
Interestingly, FamilySearch Updated again the “Germany, Prussia, Saxony, Census Lists” called Collection.
The Name however is misleading as it didn’t hold any Census at all!
Continue reading “Never trust a Collection just by its name”German Newspapers, please
Researching for Obituaries and Newsarticles is a bit complicated in Germany, but could a recent development change that?
On Monday, while I was on Mondays with Myrt I got an Email reporting a new and interesting source for me.
The German Digital Library, a joint project of the federal, state and local governments, now also has its own newspaper archive online, making 247 newspapers, 591,837 newspaper issues and a total of 4,464,846 newspaper pages from nine libraries available completely free of charge, indexed and searchable right from the start in October 2021.
Sterbefallanzeigen, a hidden Source
Did you ever wonder who informed the civil registers in case of a death?
German Archives maybe hold a Source you didn’t know of.
SidetrackedGen 