Vickie Wagner-Smetanka (client) hired you as a Genealogy in 2012 and hired you more than once

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

“”Put “german genealogist” into an internet search engine & guess whose website comes up organically–i.e. non-advertised–at the TOP OF THE LIST? How did he do that? I learned about Karl-Michael Sala http://www.GermanGenealogist.com online as a German Genealogist who could seemingly in very rapid, but methodical methods & means, crack difficult European genealogy research cases that others could not. I watched him do so for several other people in Germany, Poland, Prussia & Russia! He has on-site researchers in Poland & Moscow, Russia who have cracked 4 of Karl’s clients’ cases in the last few months. So, as a professional researcher myself, I opted to give Karl a reasonable retainer just to test him out on MY European “brick wall.” Oh, my gosh, I was stunned–as John Lennon might say “way beyond compare”–with the data, documents & images he immediately instant-messaged, showed & shared with me! He has already ordered the very microfilms for the location in which my target ancestor last resided—both German Census & parochial records ! And coming up with the name of THAT place is an exciting story of its own! He found my immigrant ancestor on a ship that departed from Hamburg, Germany. It gave his last known European residence in an archaic handwriting that was not only difficult to read, but the photography was seriously dark. He uses technology to lighten the dark & darken the light parts. After research, a genealogist is truly a hero or a zero. After having now witnessed his online research results & techniques for several people–including my own–Karl-Michael Sala is a hulk of a HERO! So, guess whom I’ve hired to work all MY clients’ European cases. You’ve got it–Karl! Ask him to tell you how he does this all from Phoenix, Arizona. Then clue me in! Vickie L. Wagner-Smetanka of Lapeer, MI smewala@aol.com” February 16, 2012

Karl-Michael Sala    Another German case cracked. With this find, we prevented the patron from digging at the wrong roots & barking up the wrong trees. It saved him hundred$, if not thousand$, to include efforts, time & frustration of finding nothing at the loc…ations he WAS intending to search: Coburg, which is actually a partial name of the province whence the target ancestor originated; Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, now a part of Thüringen in what was once East Germany.

Initially from the Agence France-Presse February 2, 2012 but later Tweeted by Kirill Chashchin, my research colleague in Moscow, Russia. Kirill has cracked two client Russian genealogy cases for my clients.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/story.html?id=6092169

The German government, in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute, is pursuing a pilot project to scan the torn documents and use computer software to piece them back together.

Photograph by Sean Gallup

In the 1980s, Karl-Michael Sala made his name by being the genealogist who would sacrifice his efforts & time by oft traveling for his clients, to hundreds of village locations behind the former rusted & dismantled Iron Curtain. It was NOT fun, and he was subject to a strip-search once at Checkpoint Charlie, i.e. the East German side of the Wall (Mauer).  Karl wonders what documents were created on him, due to his 7+ visits to East Germany?  Correspondence to the Joachim Gauck (former Lutheran pastor) Behörde claimed “nothing,” but that is actually very unlikely.  His files are perhaps included in this latest bunch to be stunningly re-assembled.

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Kirill Tchashin CFE, Director, Russian Genealogical Project (business partner)
was with another company when working with you

Patricia Hansen  (client) hired you as a Genealogist in 2011 and hired you more than once

Becky Jamison, Parish Administrator, Christ Episcopal Church (business partner) & FamilySearch’s Russia Genealogy Research Community on Facebook was with another company when working with you