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2024 (3)
January (3)- 29.01.2024 Heike Leiacker - Your contact person for probate research
- 26.01.2024 Ralf Stullich - Our man on the phone
- 24.01.2024 Andrea Bentschneider - Our founder
2023 (1)
April (1)2022 (8)
December (1) November (2)- 19.11.2022 Remembrance Day and Sunday of Commemoration of the Dead - Days of Remembrance
- 10.11.2022 Top 10: Emigration and Immigration Museums
- 20.10.2022 Emigration from Germany: Sources for overseas research (destination country)
- 06.10.2022 Emigration from Germany: Sources for research in Germany
- 17.09.2022 Why can't I visit my ancestor's grave?
- 01.07.2022 How it all began
- 24.06.2022 Coming of age - then and now
2021 (7)
November (1) October (1)- 19.10.2021 Charles Pfizer & Company - How two entrepreneurs from Ludwisgburg, Germany founded a global corporation
- 27.09.2021 Literature tip: "Walter Ulbricht. Mein Urgrossvater" by Florian Heyden (publication in German)
- 09.05.2021 Sophie Scholl - Face of the Resistance
- 30.04.2021 Dancing into May on Walpurgis Night…
- 27.01.2021 Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
- 24.01.2021 Sources for genealogy: Church books
2020 (9)
December (1)- 07.12.2020 A lucky child
- 25.05.2020 Stay clean (and most of all: healthy)!
- 11.05.2020 Emigration from Germany: Arrival in a new world – entering and arriving are two very different things
- 01.05.2020 International Workers’ Day and the role of a German immigrant
- 24.04.2020 Emigration from Germany: Going on a journey - costs, means of transport, and conditions of travel
- 17.04.2020 When a genealogist works from home
- 11.04.2020 Emigration from Germany: Ranging the fields – reasons for emigration and formal requirements to meet before leaving the country
- 04.04.2020 Emigration from Germany
2019 (8)
November (2)- 22.11.2019 Beyond History - What’s that?
- 09.11.2019 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - Sources on the East German past
- 21.10.2019 Professions: The Three Musketeers
- 13.09.2019 A short story of German census
- 01.09.2019 The beginning of the Second World War
- 14.08.2019 Election of the first German Bundestag
- 06.08.2019 The myth of German Autobahn
- 20.02.2019 To dare more archiving
2018 (11)
November (2)- 11.11.2018 The End of World War I – Sources regarding German soldiers
- 09.11.2018 Remembering the victims of National Socialism
- 24.10.2018 German Library Day
- 10.10.2018 Literature tip: “Credentials for Genealogists: Proof of the Professional” by Paul Gorry
- 02.09.2018 Friedrich Hecker, „Forty-Eighter“
- 24.04.2018 Anzac Day
- 11.04.2018 Attempt on Rudi Dutschke’s life, symbolic figure of the German 1968 movement
- 02.03.2018 German Archive Day 2018
- 24.02.2018 The history of German family names – Part 3
2017 (37)
December (2)- 25.12.2017 An international hotel chain and many headlines
- 16.12.2017 Stolpersteine to remember the victims of National Socialism
- 27.11.2017 German Christmas markets
- 19.11.2017 Hamburg under Napoleon
- 31.10.2017 Religious refugees during reformation
- 17.09.2017 Cemetery 3.0
- 31.08.2017 What does it say? Spelling in Germany
- 25.08.2017 A small step for [a] man – From Germany to the moon
- 20.08.2017 Are we really in Hamburg? The island Neuwerk
- 13.08.2017 When will you marry? Age of marriage in Germany
- 31.07.2017 Hamburg’s sister city Chicago
- 21.07.2017 Why a German became the first King of the Belgians
- 15.07.2017 Sources for genealogy: Birth-, marriage and death certificates
- 09.07.2017 Street names: What do you do, if you don’t know how to name something?
- 30.06.2017 The history of German family names – Part 2
- 19.06.2017 Happy Birthday Abenteuer Ahnenforschung! Or: What can professional genealogy achieve?
- 17.06.2017 No marriage without vaccination!
- 08.06.2017 Top 10: Sources for genealogy
- 01.06.2017 Children’s Day = Children’s Day? Celebrations in East and West Germany
- 23.05.2017 John D. Rockefeller – a man with many facets
- 21.05.2017 Tangible history – The Kiekeberg open air museum
- 12.05.2017 Periods applying to archive material
- 02.05.2017 Germans and their beer – Part 3
- 28.04.2017 Germans and their beer – Part 2
- 23.04.2017 Germans and their beer – Part 1
- 21.04.2017 Top 7 archive sins
- 11.04.2017 Kurt Vonnegut and Germany
- 06.04.2017 Spatenrecht
- 31.03.2017 We can’t afford more!? – When you have to pay for official church acts
- 26.03.2017 Literature tip: „Sie kam aus Mariupol“ by Natascha Wodin (German language)
- 19.03.2017 When the impossible happens
- 11.03.2017 Street names: Circle the square and start a new life!
- 28.02.2017 Flooded… Catastrophic influences on genealogy
- 21.02.2017 Biikebrennen in North Frisia
- 15.02.2017 To build the best piano possible
2016 (29)
December (2)- 29.12.2016 The meaning of calendars in genealogical research in Germany – part two
- 15.12.2016 The meaning of calendars in genealogical research in Germany
- 22.11.2016 History set in stone
- 11.11.2016 Walking with lanterns
- 22.10.2016 Changing times
- 07.09.2016 The history of German family names - Part 1
- 26.07.2016 Hagenbeck - a long-term institution in Hamburg - Part 2
- 06.07.2016 Hagenbeck - a long-term institution in Hamburg - Part 1
- 16.06.2016 The Wrong Four
- 13.06.2016 The Low-German Dollar
- 06.06.2016 Reopening of the „BallinStadt“
- 17.05.2016 A very exceptional case
- 09.05.2016 Liberation Day / Victory Day May 8th and 9th
- 18.04.2016 70 Years Concentration Camp Neuengamme Main Trial / Curiohaus Trial 1946
- 03.04.2016 03 April - Whose birthday are we celebrating?
- 22.03.2016 Illegal parking for a good cause
- 19.03.2016 20 March – International Day of Happiness
- 08.03.2016 “Anyone looking for a beautiful woman, good and intelligent, ...“
- 07.03.2016 Eating Then and Now: Thoughts on the Day of Healthy Eating
- 28.02.2016 Leap Year
- 22.02.2016 Passports in the past and the present
- 17.02.2016 International Mother Language Day
- 09.02.2016 Sending children with parcel service
- 02.02.2016 „So Hedge therefore, Who Join Forever” – The marriage then and now
- 26.01.2016 The Gold Ship
- 22.01.2016 The “day of German-French friendship”
- 21.01.2016 A little peace: Anniversary of contracting the Treaty of Versailles
- 12.01.2016 Street names: The Troplowitz street in Hamburg
2015 (27)
December (3)- 27.12.2015 The Christmas pickle – a German Christmas tradition largely unknown in Germany
- 04.12.2015 The carrot-and-stick-policy on the isle of Borkum
- 01.12.2015 Death penalty in Hesse
- 18.11.2015 Of Swans and Ravens
- 16.11.2015 Clark Gable’s German Roots
- 09.11.2015 November 9th – a Fateful Day in German History
- 27.10.2015 From Warburg to the Moon – a special family history
- 16.10.2015 Our Ancestors’ Hunger
- 06.10.2015 German-American Day
- 30.09.2015 German Unity Day
- 29.09.2015 A Wedding in Hamburg and a Hollywood Star
- 28.09.2015 Rabbits and Rabies or The Story of Joseph Meister
- 21.09.2015 Cemetery 2.0
- 15.09.2015 Whose Birthday are we celebrating today?
- 03.09.2015 The Ancestry of Barack, Hillary and Co.
- 25.08.2015 The Secrets of the Night’s King
- 18.08.2015 Five Tips For Your Genealogy Kick-off!
- 14.08.2015 Summer, Vacation, Sunshine!
- 06.08.2015 Gertrude Ederle
- 28.07.2015 The needle in the haystack or a genealogy miracle
- 17.07.2015 A Photograph from a Flea Market
- 09.07.2015 Gosh!
- 07.07.2015 Germans Down Under
- 30.06.2015 A very exceptional case
- 26.06.2015 The Sound of Shopping
- 23.06.2015 „We are hungry!“ – 3200 years of strike
- 17.06.2015 Puzzling Fonts