Dear Genealogy Friends,
Our next German Interest Group Meeting will be held next Friday, May 6, 2016, from 1 – 3 p.m. Please invite your friends and relatives – anyone who would be interested in genealogy and our meeting topics – all are welcome!
The location is: the LDS Church at 10675 NE 20th Street, Bellevue, WA 98004.
Attached is the flyer for this meeting, as well as one of the Location and Surname Sheet you need to fill out and return to us. The other alternatives are for you to just send us an email at GermanInterestGroupEGS@outlook.com that lists the German State names, the city/town names, and the surnames that you are researching. If you don’t fill out the form prior to next Friday’s meeting, please bring it with you.
Flyer for 5-6-16 GIG Meeting
Our program will be:
“Small Group Sharing – Divided into specific German Empire Regions”
We will break into small groups of the 16th States of Germany and adjacent countries for discussion of where our ancestors came from:
Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thuringia.
Discussion will include sharing research tips, possible answers to research questions & maybe locating someone researching in the same village or even the same surname. It will be an interesting & interactive meeting as groups discuss the various parts of Germany, Russia, Poland, France/Alsace, etc., where their German speaking ancestors had lived.
Please email us at GermanInterestGroupEGS@outlook.com with a list of the States/Countries your ancestors lived in and the surnames you are researching. Alternatively, you can fill out the attached form and email it to us at the same email address.
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NEW! We have a GIG website with research links, etc., please go to: http://www.enyedy00.com/mmGIG/GIG%20Resource%20Lists.html
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Our June meeting will be held on June 3rd from 1-3 p.m. The topic will be “What are your summer genealogy plans & how might we help you?” Will you be going on a research trip, attending/hosting a family reunion, doing a genealogy project (like organizing your stuff or writing a book or breaking down a brickwall or learning about DNA), or whatever your summer genealogical plans or hopes may be? Come share your plans & ask any questions that might help you be successful. GIG members have had experiences doing these activities and are willing to share what they have learned. Later, it will be a wonderful feeling to accomplish whatever you planned or hoped to do this coming summer. If there is any time left over, we can answer questions left from our May “Small Group Sessions” meeting.
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Good Books! If you have any good books on German or other Genealogical Research, please bring the Title, Author, Publisher and Date Published, and your review of the book to our meetings!
Dorothy Pretare came across this new book with special savings and thought that maybe some of you might be interested in it. We do want to say we have no financial interest in this book and haven’t reviewed it yet. It is offered by Shop Family Tree. The book will be available in April 2016 at a heavily discounted price, described below.
The book is Trace Your German Roots Online, by Thomas MacEntee.
The embedded link to order is http://www.shopfamilytree.com/trace-your-german-roots-online?utm_source=linkconnector&utm_medium=affiliate&cid=affiliate.
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Hope to see you all Friday, May 6th!
Karen Campbell, GIG Leader
Dorothy Pretare, Programs