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Lambendsor (aka IGS)
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This site seems to be the German equivalent to RootsChat (though on a somewhat more modest scale):
http://www.ahnen-und-wappen.de/foren/index.php
Has anyone with German roots discovered anything else like this?
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ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HULME(S): Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GRAY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAW(E), FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi IGS,
thanks for posting that link.
I've been having a look and it looks interesting.
I'm wondering whether I should suggest a 'kulturaustausch', a cultural exchange - we put some of our "immigration from Germany" queries on their forum, and they put any "emigrated to England, or countries in our Emigrants board" queries on RootsChat.
I'll contact their webmaster and see what he says.
Bob
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site http://boco.rootschat.net All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Lambendsor (aka IGS)
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That would certainly come in handy. I don't speak or read German, but the site resembles RootsChat enough that, illiterate or not, I was able to register and to post a query (albeit in English).
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ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HULME(S): Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GRAY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAW(E), FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford
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Berlin-Bob
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no reply yet to my email to http://www.ahnen-und-wappen.de/foren/index.php
I've registered with them, and put on a query which was answered fairly quickly.
I've now also registered with Ahnenforschung.org at http://forum.genealogy.net/forum/index.php
this seems to be a much larger forum, judging by the number of "new posts" per hour.
I've started two topics here, and both were replied to pretty quickly.
I made a similar suggestion to one of the mods there, about a 'kulturaustausch', a cultural exchange - we put some of our "immigration from Germany" queries on their forum, and they put any "emigrated to England, or countries in our Emigrants board" queries on RootsChat.
She likes the idea and will pass it on to their mods/admin to discuss.
More on this later !
First impression in both forums:
not so "welcoming" as RC, i.e. no "Welcome to ...", which usually happens in RootsChat, but, as I said, the replies came fairly soon after posting. (Reminds me of my first impressions of RootsChat, before the "Lighter Side" started up  )
The style in http://forum.genealogy.net/forum/index.php seems to be a bit more relaxed, on ahnen-und-wappen there seems to be more of the the formel Sie for you; on forum.genealogy.net there's seems to more of the informal du
Bob
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« Last Edit: Thursday 30 August 07 07:21 BST (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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bearkat
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Census Info. is Crown Copyright, from www.national
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Welcome to rootschat. 
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Middx - Vaus, Roberts, Eversfield, Inman, Star, Holbeck, Wyatt, Bickford, Smith, Redwood
South Stoneham, Hants - Small, Hammerton, Grist, Fryer, Trodd
Beaulieu/Boldre, Hants - Woodford, Croutear, Beck, Bendell, Keeping, Harding
Kent - Bayly, Borer, Mitchell, Plane, Vernon, Farrance, Chapman, Medhurst, Lomax, Wyatt
Devon - Tope, Bickford, Foster
YKS - Quirk, McGuire, Benn
Nott/Derbs - Slack
Hert - Barnes
L'pool- Plumbe
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Nathalie
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www.fammats.de
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Thank you.
It´s true that in german genealogy-forums it is not usual to welcome new users. I don´t know why - in other german forums this is obvious.
I say welcome to them when i answer to their first post.
But I will tell your critisicm to the other mods. Perhaps we can create a new sub-forum to welcome the users. I like the idea!
Nathalie
(sorry for my english, i left school a long time ago )
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Jeanette H
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Hello Bob,
I have been having a look at these two forums.
However, with my very limited knowledge of the German Language, I am not sure how I would get on. I was able to make out a few words which are of course used, or are very similar in the English language.
Is there by chance a language conversion system attached to these websites, as I have used this facility on various other sites?
I would dearly love to get moving on my German Family History Research, with names like:
'ECKHARDT' / 'HUBNER' / 'TACKI'
areas including: Alsace Lorraine, Frankfurt, etc.
Jeanette H.
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One-Half Of 'Dancing-Duo' Waltzing Through Time & Space.
Researching To Find Lots Of Things Not To Do.
Research Names & Areas:
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Ayrshire, Scotland: BROWN / BAIRD / BURNS(BURNESS) / HUTCHISON / COWAN / REID / WYL(L)IE
Roxburghshire, Scotland: TURNBULL / VEITCH / ELLIOT / MURRAY
Aberdeenshire, Scotland: WATT / MITCHELL
England: TOPPING / MEDLEY
Ireland: MORROW
Australia: BROWN / BAIRD / TURNBULL / WATT / TOPPING / MORROW / MEDLEY / TACKI
Germany: ECKHARDT / HUBNER / TACKI
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi Jeanette,
How about putting requests on the Immigrants board, a separate one for each name, with as many details as you have.
We'll see what the folks here can do, and when we have enough information, then I'll put a query on your behalf on Ahnenforschung.org at http://forum.genealogy.net.
Nathalie, a mod there, has already said that that would be OK.
Bob
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« Last Edit: Thursday 30 August 07 07:23 BST (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site http://boco.rootschat.net All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Nathalie
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Hello Jeanette,
you can write also your post in our forum in englisch. Many User understand it. If you put the post in the wrong category it doesn´t matter, we will push it to the right category.
Maybe Bob can write an instruction about the meaning of all our cathegorys and buttons in english. We can publish it in our forum and Bob can do the same here.
Nathalie
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Rossi14
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Hi,
I'm one of the administrators of http://forum.genealogy.net.
To answer your question, Jeanette:
Is there by chance a language conversion system attached to these websites, as I have used this facility on various other sites?
Theoretically yes. Practically, it does not really work.  Even if you change your language in your profile to English, the buttons are still in German. We are working on a solution for that for quite some time, as we can see there is an increasing demand from English speaking users, mainly from North America, though. At least I didn't realize so far that there were many immigrants from Germany to the U.K., thought, most of them went straight to the 'New World'.
Rossi
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