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”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.
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 