IGS Newsletter Contents

Sample Tables of Contents from Recent Newsletters

Here is just a sampling of what you will find in the pages of the IGS Newsletters. The most recent contents from early 2024 are posted here:

June 2024:

  • More surnames highlighted from the IGS Surname File Database – from Walldorf to Weiser.
  • “Where Do You Live?”, a loaded question leading to this list of surnames from gravestone inscriptions from a city cemetery in Hanover, Germany.
  • “The Carraway Seeds and Related Families“, a book of interest to those with heritage between the Chiemsee and the district town of Trauenstein in Bavaria, including a surname list.
  • A collection of resources from the region of Osnabrück to add a touch of color, flavor, or music when writing your local family histories.

May 2024:

  • More surnames highlighted from the IGS Surname File Database – from Vettermann to Walcher.
  • IGS: the sole US agent for the DAGV’s “OsTicket” System for Research Questions in Germany
  • Our editor’s personal observations on German Immigration and Immigrants
  • Book Review: “Our Young Family“, by Norman F. Young, 1992 – 19C emigrants from the Rheinland-Pfalz to Indiana
  • “Achthundert Auswanderer aus Sachsen=Weimar (1854)”, a sample article from Archiv für Sippenforschung as a source for emigration research

April 2024:

  • More surnames highlighted from the IGS Surname File Database – from Tritt to Vetter.
  • Some articles relevant to German – American genealogy from back issues of the NGS Quarterly were preserved in our vertical files. Two examples:
    • A five-page listing of Germans and others who were “Foreign-Born in Frederick County, Maryland.”, showing names and birthplaces extracted from area gravestones circa 1966.
    • An article listing subscribers and their places of origin to the first publication of “Der Deutsche Pionier” in 1869, a Cincinnati-area magazine for German-Americans.
  • Michigan resources at the IGS Library include Detroit “Passenger Records”, transcribed from a book of published records of a passenger agent for 1851-69; many coming directly from Germany.

March, 2024:

  • More surnames highlighted from the IGS Surname File Database – from Thiro to Tritschler.
  • A focus on the IGS Library in Burbank, CA – progress and plans.
  • The Continuing Contributions of Walter Hilbig, German Genealogical resources come full-circle back to the IGS Library.
  • Revisiting a research success story from the IGS archives.

February, 2024:

  • More surnames highlighted from the IGS Surname File Database – from Stuhlfelder to Thiem.
  • The story behind Jürnjakob Swehn, der Amerikafahrer, a collection of published letters from Iowa to Mecklenburg.
  • Book Review: Chapter highlights found in “Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau- Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750“, by B. C. Holtzclaw.
  • Announcing two upcoming presentations by IGS member John P. Schmal:
    • “German Geography and History“, January 27 (tomorrow!) at 1:00 PM PST
    • “Tracing Your German Roots”, February 24 at 1:00 PM PST

January, 2024:

  • More surnames highlighted from the IGS Surname File Database – from Stern to Struckmann.
  • Tracing former board member, Eldon Knuth’s “mathematical genealogy“.
  • A look at Eldon’s Knuth’s own family research legacy.
  • Reference to a website containing Maps of Polish History.
  • Intro to the Max Kade Institute’s project of digitizing and transcribing Newton, Wisconsin Fire Insurance Ledgers from the 1800’s.
  • The German Genealogy Group of NY has a searchable surname database.