I feel that by not really being able to fully read what is written in the church records, I may be missing some important clues. I think something that may help is to create my own "English-German" dictionary of the important words I come across, not just those that pertain to birth, marriage, and death, but those that might describe the time period my ancestors lived. I'm not sure if any journals or diaries exist for my family, but it would be interesting to know why my ancestors chose to come to America. I know generalizations can be made as to the reasons many Germans made that long hard journey, but I would like to know why my ancestors came.
I can see that now that I am really focusing on my German lines, it is going to take much longer. I need to find myself a good English-German dictionary. I have some lists of common German/Latin genealogical terms (those that relate to birth, marriage, and death), but I need to be able to read some old German script (thank goodness there are some pretty good tools out their that can help decipher that old script). Once I decipher what the text says, I am going to need to be able to translate the words. Most of the old script so far is limited to church records.
I feel that by not really being able to fully read what is written in the church records, I may be missing some important clues. I think something that may help is to create my own "English-German" dictionary of the important words I come across, not just those that pertain to birth, marriage, and death, but those that might describe the time period my ancestors lived. I'm not sure if any journals or diaries exist for my family, but it would be interesting to know why my ancestors chose to come to America. I know generalizations can be made as to the reasons many Germans made that long hard journey, but I would like to know why my ancestors came.
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