Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Missing Persons from WWII In Europe

The Arolsen Archives has made available online information on persons persecuted by the Nazis in World War II Europe. The database includes 850,000 documents with information on 10 million names of both survivors and those that were killed.  Source: ResearchBuzz

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Phone book images

The Library of Congress has uploaded 1.7 million images from its Telephone Directory Collection. The images come from 14 states, the city of Chicago, and Washington D.C. The collection is not currently searchable by name or address, and years appear to range from the 30's to the 70's. Get more information and a link to the collection here.   Source: ResearchBuzz

Monday, November 4, 2019

Climate and immigration from Germany

 Your German ancestors may have immigrated in the 19th century due to  changes in climate in Europe .