[Info-vax] OT: Searching for ancestors from Germany

[Michael Moroney]

Tad Winters <tad.vms at gmx.com> writes:

>Sorry to post off-topic, but I'm sure there are people from Germany who
>frequent this group.  I'm using MyHeritage to work on my family tree,
>but it's not giving me anything about relatives from Germany.
>Immigration to the US was in 1866, and I speak nothing but English.
>Someone here may be able to point me at a group I could contact to make
>some progress.

There is the newsgroup soc.genealogy.german, but it is almost, but not 
completely dead, with just a handful of non-spam posts in the last few
months. The heritage/genealogy companies usually have decent forums which
are frequently specific to surnames. You may want to search ancestry.com
in the public library to see if they have surname-specific discussions
or use a free trial to start a small tree with the ancestors you are interested
in and see if they find info. If you do this use a couple which you know the
most about (names, dates of birth/death) so they find the right people.