At the occasion of the upcoming “Tag der Archive” several German archives open their doors to the public on the first weekend in march (6-7 March 2010). This years motto is “In Search of Clues”.
But also on weekdays it is possible to visit guided tours and exibitions featuring treasures from their own collections.
Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as medium of scholarly exchange and as liturgical language of the Roman Catholic Church, but also as language of science, literature, law, and administration. Therefore Latin-skills are the basic premise to read and understand a wide range of sources from this period of time. We would like to draw your attention to two tutorials created by experts from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland National Archives that provide help to improve reading skills in Medieval Latin by translating sentences taken from real documents held at The National Archives.
12 basic lessons: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners
12 advanced lessons: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/advanced
New York. Ellis Island. Immigrants walking across pier from bridge. National Photo Company Collection No. 3163E (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Census and immigration records often show the short label “Posen” as the place of origin for German, Jewish and Polish immigrants. The Poznan Marriage Indexing Project helps descendants of those who left the Poznan area in the 19th century to identify the actual town or parish their ancestors left when departing for America, Australia or elsewhere. The period between 1835-1884 corresponds to the period of greatest emigration.
The database is located at:
http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/search.php
The Thesaurus Professionum now contains about 23.000 entries for occupational titles found in Early Modern funeral sermons and similar texts in German libraries and archives.
Illustration: Amman, Jost, Sachs, Hans: Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stände auff Erden, hoher und nidriger, geistlicher und weltlicher, aller Künsten, Handwercken und Händeln …
Durch d. weitberümpten Hans Sachsen gantz fleissig beschrieben u. in teutsche Reimen gefasset, Frankfurt am Mayn: Feyerabend 1568
thanks to http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/
Neu und richtiger Grundt Riß des heiligen Römischen Reichs freyer Stadt Cöllen im Jahr 1752 verfertiget … von J. V. Reinhardt …
Since March 7th, the initiative “Digital Historical Archive Cologne” offers the opportunity to upload copies of the material from the collapsed municipal archive. This way, users can help to restore the documents.
http://www.historischesarchivkoeln.de/index.php?lang=en
Memorial tablet for the soldiers killed during the War of the Sixth Coalition (prootestant church St. Ägidius, Hergisdorf, Saxony Anhalt)
Data of baptism, mariage, and death of military personnel and often their families were kept in regimental and garrison church registers. For genealogical research in this kind of sources it is helpful to know the place or region of enlistment, the approximate dates of service, and the exact regiment.
A printed directory of the 4087 preserved military church records available in about 156 different archives or rectories in Germany can be found in:
Wolfgang Eger: Verzeichnis der Militärkirchenbücher in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Neustadt an der Aisch, 2 Bände, 1993/96
The archivist, writer and filmmaker Rick Prelinger founded the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. Prelinger has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 1,970 films available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse.
The archive of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen stores 26,000 running metres of various types of record. The alphabetically and phonetically arranged Central Name Index contains over 50 million reference cards for over 17.5 million victims of Nazi persecution. Previously, viewing the archive was limited only to survivors and close relations of the dead. The general public has been granted access for research purposes as of 28th November 2007. The recent opening of the archives to historical research was marked at a ceremony on 30 April 2008 at the archive centre.
Digital copies of much of the archives have already been sent to the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the National Institute of Remembrance in Warsaw.
Litlink: preview to version 3.0
As the quantity of software for managing bibliographical references and information increased during the past years the range of products makes it necessary to define criteria for choosing one or the other. These criteria are for example the variety of import and export file formats, citation styles, options to manage many different information in a complex software structure, usability, database connectivity, good net binding, and last but not least independence from the Internet.
Individual needs play a substantial role in the choice of a software. Therefore it is important to figure them out clearly and to test different programs. The free software “Litlink” has been developed especially for the requirements of historians. It combines facilities for managing bibliographical references relating them to articles, reviews, photographs etc with those ones that are necessary to administerate archival materials and references. Litlink is a multi-dimensional slip box that offers almost unlimited linkage possibilities.
Since December, 14th 2007, the memorial book “Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945″ is accessible as an online-database at the website of the Federal Archives of Germany. The second print edition of the memorial book (2006) constitutes the main corpus of data. Beyond that the database contains information about Jews that held the Polish citizenship but lived and worked in Germany and were deported in 1938/39 to the Polish border.
The database is searchable by first name (Vorname), last name (Familienname), birthname (Geburtsname), place and date of birth (Geburtsort, Geburtsdatum), last residence (Wohnort), place and date of deportation (Deportationsort, Deportationsdatum).
Users are encouraged to add their information contacting the archive.
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