Year 8 Anniversary Post

GOALS FOR YEAR 8:

PARTIALLY MET: Post the middle and end of each month. 24 posts in Year 8 but not posted middle and end of each month.

 MET: East Prussia — Migrations, Political History, Historical Fiction and Non -Fiction, and Research. The last of the 12 Research posts was May 26.

MET: Answer comments as quickly as possible.

NOT MET: Respond to specific questions from researchers by sending them unpublished posts. No specific questions from researchers.

NOT MET: Report on conferences (if attended) with one or more posts. No conferences attended.

NOT MET: Report on research which reveals result of translations of four family letters and resulting EWZ research which led to a very personal connection.

NOT MET: Write one or more posts in collaboration with another researcher.

MET: Support new young researchers including the Facebook group, Lietuvos Liuteronų Genealogija. https://www.facebook.com/groups/LiuteronuGenealogija/.  It is amazing to see the variety of information available online.

MET: Support https://www.owenthegenealogist.com/. Owen, the genealogist, gave me the Facebook group link. His work is exemplary! It is exciting to connect with new, young researchers!

Also, Owen has started a Facebook group Germans from Kreis Wilkowischken/Vilkaviškis Lithuania  https://www.facebook.com/groups/614853642302441/

Your comments provide the encouragement I need to reach the ten-year anniversary!

If you have made a comment that I have not responded to, please send another comment so we can communicate further by e-mail with a new address associated with the account.

GOALS for YEAR 9

Post the middle and end of each month.

Topics:

East Prussian Census Records

Russian Military Records

Experiences, Observations and Recommendations about

Germans from Kreis Wilkowischken/Vilkaviškis Lithuania

https://www.facebook.com/groups/614853642302441/

This group will soon be known as Deutsche aus Litauen, Germans from Lithuania.

Additional Report/s on EWZ records.

Report on research which reveals result of translations of four family letters and resulting EWZ research which led to a very personal connection. (Carried over from Year 8.)

Draugas and Lithuanian Heritage

Draugas and Darbininkas, Red Cross and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Organization, and the Lithuanian Consulate

Stories behind the Records

Promising Websites

And More!

9^th Anniversary Post