Transcripts for Ethnic Groups

While traveling in Cologne, Germany, last year, we were taken out to a tourist area for the locals where original homes were gathered from all over the country with historic plaques about where the home had originated, the family who had lived there, and other interesting pieces of information. I was very interested in this hair decoration made from the hair of deceased family members. This might work well for DNA studies.

Notice the information available in this school book that lists the students in a German school.

Here we visited the school house and saw how the children learned to write the German script.

Here was a windmill used to grind the grain in a windy area of the country.

All over Germany people were gathering their folk history and their family information and this is making it easier for immigrants to be found. It was Americans going to visit the Mayflower. Sometimes this ethnic information is found on line and eventually it will be translated or we will learn how to read our ancestor’s handwriting in order to obtain clues from their past.