The Wendish Research Exchange

Giddings Deutsches Volksblatt

webmaster - 4-6-2012 at 10:58 AM

  1. Objectives: Translate obituaries, letters, and reports into English and compile an anthology of each or aid others in research.
  2. Participants: Weldon Mersiovsky, David Goeke, George Nielsen, Eddie Wolsch, Eugene Hemmann, Russell Schwausch
  3. Project Manager for Obits: Dave Goeke
  4. Status: Ongoing
  5. Who has materials: Participants
  6. What is needed:

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Giddings Deutsches Volksblatt

mersiowsky - 5-22-2012 at 07:51 PM

Sandra McNeely has volunteered to label the digital images with dates. Thank you Sandra. :)

Completeness of collection

WanderingWend - 8-20-2013 at 04:01 PM

What date ranges are realistically available? Are there efforts to track down others? I may have a lead to some but I would like to find out what dates/editions are around/on microfilm/fiche to continue the 'hunt'.

Additionally, did the Giddings Star produce any Wendish type in the beginning?

mersiowsky - 8-20-2013 at 11:22 PM

We have an inventory of the editions that we do not have. I have never heard of any Wendish printing being done by the Giddings Star. My intuition would say that it is very unlikely that an English language paper would ever print anything in Wendish.