Thought this might be helpful to some of you.
If you want to find the location of a town in today's Germany, send an E-mail
to geo(a)genealogy.net with a carbon copy to yourself. In the Subject line, type
GEO (that is capital GEO surrounded with two underlines) and, in the message
portion, type the name of the town. This activates an automated
system at the University of Giessen in Germany that will match any place that
is in the current German Postal Code Book. In the reply, you will get any
place that has that name along with the county, provincial district and
today's state in Germany. The message will also include the latitude/longitude
of the place, the Postal Code, the population in 1989, the definition of
1:25,000 scale and 1:50,000 scale maps showing the place and a finding aid in
the Euro-Atlas... all free. When a place has become a part of a larger town,
that will be shown.
If you would like to find out how common a name is in Germany or the general
areas where that name is found (via the German telephone books), you can set
your browser <
http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/~geneal/bin/teleinfo2.cgi> and
type in the surname. You can choose between a "quick count" of how many German
telephones there are in that name or you can request "more detail" which will
show you a distribution through the Postal Code Regions of this name, complete
with a colored map of the Postal Code Regions and smaller zones within them.
If you find an area of concentration of the name and want to dig deeper, you
can click on the number of that region and it will break the distribution down
further for you. You can continue that until you get as far as you want to go.
Both of these capabilities are provided by <Arthur.Treschler(a)uni-giessen.de>.
(From the Palatine Heritage newsletter, August 1998, article by Lester G.
Weber, Library Research Volunteer, Palatines to America Library, Columbus
Ohio.)
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Subj: Re: Reproduction
Date: 98-08-26 22:22:48 EDT
From: MHess138
To: Dlkgen
This is information from our newletter is known and can be used by anyone.
thanks for asking.
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Don Kear
Van Wert Ohio County Coordinator
www.rootsweb.com/~ohvanwer/
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Kear/Tope Family Page
members.aol.com/dlkgen/tope/
Researching Kear/Tope/Potts/Hixson/Spencer
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Community United Methodist Church
www.gbgm-umc.org/comm-day/
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