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I am having difficulties with a new branch of the family.  Previously I was working on my mothers side, and I have taken that much further than I thought it would have ever gone.  However now I have information about my fathers side that I never thought I would have had, and researching his side is proving to be far more difficult.  I have not been able to find any records from where I usually go.  I am hoping someone may be able to help point me in the right direction here.

Awel Lupschor, he is my Great Grandfather.  He was born in Deutsch Etschka, now Serbia, then I believe Yugoslavia, on April 21 1925.  We got this information from a "Work Visa" (I don't know what it may be) that he had while in Germany during World War 2, it had his information and work History while in Germany.  In February 1945 he was arrested by the Gestapo (Secret Police) and thrown in the Ahlem Concentration camp in Hannover Germany.  He was later killed and buried in a mass grave in April, which apparently got exumed and buried proper by the Brits.  That part is interesting, because I have read that the Nazis abandoned that camp on April 6th 1945, so was he that close to rescue?

The only other facts that we know: Mother is Anna, siblings are Peter and Maria.  No dates to go with them.

If the documents are in German or Serbian I have people I know that can translate. 

So where should I look?  Thanks for the help.

--Erik

I am starting to see if there is anyone out there that has Emily Jane Butler (Nee. Hurford) in their tree?

She was born to John Harris Hurford and Priscilla Beatrice Turner on July 26 1876.  She is the eldest of 4 from her mom, and 10 from her father.  She is seen on a ship in 1896 going to Chile.  We don't know when she went back to England or why, but in 1901 I can find her on the Census married and with a 2 month old Child.  This all goes along with information that we already know.

We also know that she had 5 children total: Gertrude Butler, Priscilla Butler, Gladys Butler, Harry Butler, Kathleen Butler.  This is the extent of our knowledge of her branch of the family.

I have only been working on my families history for almost 2 years now, but especially in the last 8 months I have collected a huge stash of photos, audio, documents, and even just a touch of video.  I have over 17,000 files which takes up just over 50 gigs.  My final destination for all of this of course is not where it is currently, but a Wiki that I have made and use for my family.  If anyone is interested I can make a post about said wiki because it really is an amazing, especially to help share with family.

My question here is what is the best way to keep it all straight?  There is a lot of information that I know simply off the top of my head, but there is probably more that I just don't know who/when/where.  I can slowly find out which isn't the problem, but when you have well over 5000 photos where do you store that information of who is in each, when it was taken, where it was taken, and why?

When I only had a few hundred photos I just used a spread sheet, that worked well, but now the problem is that with so many photos is there a better way?  I know Windows Live Photo Gallery has a tagging tool, which does all of that very well (especially the tagging of people, so in a large group you know who is actually who), but does that information carry over to other systems well?  Like if I sent it to a Mac, will they be able to see those tags?

How do you keep it all straight?

Top!  That picture speaks volumes about the times, and that is what we are trying to capture.

My question is how do you know it is her sibling and not someone simply with the same last name, or maybe a cousin?