So, as an amateur German Genealogist, you’ve been aggressively, assertively & avidly working on your beloved Germany/Prussia ancestors in various countries of Europe–from Alsace to Austria-Hungary!  And, because YOU are now hungry for data, documents & images, you’ve:

Devoured, read & studied all the German Genealogy research articles

Attended & took copious notes at all the German Genealogy experts’ lectures & workshops (Karl-Michael Sala in white shirt, front row)

Picked the brains of all the at-large professional German Genealogists you could

Hounded the veteran German Genealogist w(h)izards who man the German Genealogy Reference Desk @ the FamilySearch Library in your neck of the woods AND in Salt Lake City, Utah

But you still need expert, professional German Genealogy research help?

German American Heritage Center offers genealogy workshops Oct. 21

Posted Online: Sept. 27, 2012, 1:44 pm

Cathy ChampionFiber artist/designer, independent genealogy/history consultant

To: Karl-Michael SALA Euro-German Genealogist since 1979!, Cathy Champion

September 22, 2012

Hello!  Just wanted to drop you a note (saw you on our mutual connection to Cheryl of Ancestor Hunters- C & L) and wanted to let you know that I found the GermanGenealogist website extremely helpful while working on a book and also in my personal genealogy. I’ve also popped into your Italian site from time to time.

Jeff [Skousen] is indeed a great organizer!

I did some indexing for your group for a while and then life got in the way and I had to stop. Rather than dismissing me as a worker bee, he recently contacted me about doing some more work. That impressed me, and I am seriously trying to work some time in.

I plan to definitely list your site in the bibliography of my work when it eventually gets finished. Problem on that is that I keep finding additional information to include!

Jeff [Skousen]’s lucky to have you as a mentor!

Cathy Champion wrote on Linkedin.com:

 “Karl-Michael’s websites on German and Italian genealogy are exceptional! They provided me with such diverse information during my research on a book that I became interested in the “how” of the info collection process and eventually became involved in transcription work. It’s astounding to me the speed at which records appear on the internet once they are submitted. He has managed to train many dedicated people who care about the correctness of those records before they appear online.

I’ve researched on and transcribed for other groups and no where else have I found records so correct and unusual. His sites delve into the lives of individuals – mostly immigrants – and supplies the intimate parts of those lives we so yearn for – marriages, bapitisms, deaths, locations – so that life is breathed into their histories.

Only a dedicated and enthusiastic person could produce that perception through records on a website. I find myself returning again and again, seeking more on my “people” and I am rarely disappointed.”
Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 2001
Top Qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

On Wednesday, 20 September 2012, at the Mesa, Arizona FamilySearch Library Training Center, our colleague, friend & mentee, Jeff Skousen, gave a great presentation on Italian Genealogy Research ! 

This includes the passenger listing of the target ancestral family AND the title page showing ship name, Irene, & so much more for this prospect’s German Genealogy research on the WEITZENECKER FAMILY by this expert professional German Genealogist, Karl-Michael Sala. 

To hire us, consider that most people have thousands of $ worth of research to be done on numerous lineages.  Therefore, we accept retainers in increments of thousands.  We will give you a 100% return on your $, i.e. a 50% discount, twice as much as you pay for, or however you wish to look at it.  So, cash in that low-paying investment & get a bigger bang for your buck from Lynell & Karl-Michael Sala (in research business since 1979! THOUSANDS FOUND! Are you next?) 

To enlarge, separately click on each of the two images below: 

New York Passenger List

Still finding data, documents & images others could not find in German Genealogy!

Karl-Michael Sala konfers:
Historic Silesia, superimposed on modern international borders: The mediæval Bohemian crown land (as of 1538) outlined in cyan, Prussian Silesia as of 1815 in yellow. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia
Notice it extends into Sachsen!
This pertains to several posts in this & other regions. Silesia (Schlesien) also explains why the concepts of the geography of Czechoslovakia, Germany & Poland are, in this region, confusing.

So, Karl-Michael Sala, German Genealogy research expert, did my ancestor live in Czechoslovakia, Bohemia (Böhmen), Saxony (Sachsen), Silesia (Schlesien), Germany (Deutschland), Poland (Polen), Prussia (Preussen), or something else?

Jill Holcomb (client) hired you as a Family History/Genealogist Researcher in 2011

I requested that the name of the Ukraine Genealogy Research Facebook community be changed. Done right away. Requested to be installed as an admin/manager/researcher on that page. Done immediately.  Time is short & these are the last days, folks.  If you don’t believe that, then you can believe that, for a patron with Lithuanian ancestry, I just found Jewish microfilmed records & posted the link to this site!  

Search Results for FamilySearch Catalog
Lithuania, Čekiškė – Jewish records (1)Metrical books, 1857-1914
author: Jewish Congregation. Čekiškė (Lithuania)
formerly Chekishki, Kovna, Kovna, Russia.

http://www.bit.ly/LithuaniaCekiskeFormerChekishkiKovnaKovnaRussiaJewishRecordsFHLC (the bit.ly system won’t accept the diacritical markings). This provided as a courtesy to Amira Mashiah, a patron of Karl-Michael Sala and FamilySearch’s Ukraine Genealogy Research community page on Facebook.