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"Professor Minert went to Europe for six months in 2015 to learny why American genealogists know very little about German census records. While there he learned that German genealogists know very littl about German census records! His findings are presented in this book - the first examination of a a record source that has been almost totally unused in the study of our German ancestors"--Back cover.
The compelling and riveting stories of 7,500 members of the LDS Church in East Germany during World War II. These saints found themselves in precarious situations when World War II broke out. They were compelled to live under the tyranny of Nazi Germany and participate in offensive and defensive military actions.
This book goes German state by German state, details the history of these records. Tremendous numbers of these records were made, in that residential registration is a fact of life in Germany, an idea that's foreign to American researchers. The volume not only details the laws for each historic area of the Germany Empire, but includes examples, and state-by-state information on accessing these documents.
This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.
A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.
This volume is filled with gripping and fascinating stories of members of the LDS Church in West Germany and Austria during World War II. Today we are mostly unfamiliar with the conditions the German Saints faced during World War II. They did not have ready access to the many conveniences American Saints took for granted including their local Church leaders, clean places to meet, cars, and temples. Their stories of joy and suffering are presented in this book against the background of the successes and collapse of the Third Reich. Readers will be touched at the faith and dedecation shown by these Saints, young and old, military and civilian.