With the professional, guidance of Karl-Michael Sala, a former USAFR Intelligence Officer highly skilled in geography & maps, he steers his agent in Poland away from an incorrect location.  Therewith, she goes on to crack yet another East European (Poland) case for our client!  She found the Cieszyn (Ostrow Wielkopolski), once known as Tscheschen-Glashütte & Tscheschen-Hammer) early church records having been bound up in the wrong parish register “gray sleeve or cover wrapping.” Whew. That should bring us another generational family & all their children! Root, Root! Gorzow Wielkopolski is NOT to be confused with Ostrow Wielkopolski! These two are not in the same “county” within Poland.

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10/19/11  Reply ▼    jjh_stuff@yahoo.com

To Karl-Michael Sala GermanGenealogist.com

Omigosh, How exciting! So much fun to hear about this info. Thanks, Karl!

Karl coaches:  To view a large copy of the image, click on it!

Kowel, Ukraine, county seat for Derewka or Derewok

kolonia DEREWOK gromada Radoszyn, gmina Hołoby, powiat Kowel, województwo wołyńskie

Karl-Michael Sala Another case cracked today in the Ukraine, Russia! Place of origin from the USA passenger list was re-interpreted as Derewka or Derewok.  This little village was/is in the Kovel (aka Kowel) district, a reasonable phonetic variant of the target place, Kowal or Kowel. Derewok in the parish of Holoby (earlier aka Goloby), Kovel’s’kyi district, Volyns’ka, Ukraine! It’s time for us to play some music & sing{;>)

Well, here.  You read it.  Be sure to click on the little  image to make it more readable.  Then scroll to the right to read Derewka or Derowka, a variant:

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Diane Mason Gray endorsed Karl-Michael Sala
Karl-Michael [Sala of GermanGenealogist.com] is a genius at translating smudged-ink German handwriting! How he read the documents I sent to him, I’ll never know. I wasn’t expecting to have such wonderful translation, perhaps just a word or two to give me a hint, but he read nearly all of the documents word for word for me. What a talent! I highly recommend Karl-Michael to anyone with a German heritage needing genealogical research or translation. He is honest, forthright, and of the highest integrity.
Keywords: Genealogy, Geneology, German Genealogy, Germanic Genealogy, Prussia

Karl responds: Thank you, Diane! Talent, Technology & Time is how it was done, Diane!

Here is just a portion of Diane’s ancestor’s document image which had been both enlarged & enhanced from its original, even darker state. At the bottom of the smaller image is how the handwriting is supposed to look. In this case, the writer used both German & your more familiar Latin scripts!

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Yes, it is a numbers game that must constantly & consistently, but with finesse, be played.  One client called me “dear” in writing & when I talked with her on the phone.  Mind you, this was a total stranger who had merely read my writings & profile on Linkedin.com!  Our conversation was like we had known each other for years!  Yes, this is the way it is supposed to be!  GermanGenealogist.com is happy. Click here for a short piece with a nice, short tune.

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Karl-Michael Sala coached this client to step away from the notion that his ancestor came from “Osnabruck.”  It is the professionally-accepted practice to FIRST exhaust all USA sources, to include family members.  This case was cracked by this client pinning down a location NEAR Osnabrück–Mettigen he thought, but we clarified “Mettingen,” which is indeed very near to Osnabrück!

September 9, 2011

Matt Yancey File Clerk at The Medical Center of Plano    Location   Dallas/Fort Worth Area     Industry   Human Resources

• Matt Recommends  Service Providers (1) Karl-Michael SALA, German Genealogist since 1979!

Karl-Michael Sala : Who am I that thou art mindful of me?

Chaotic Eclectic : A person of integrity and commitment, LDS, a german gen[ea]logist, and one hell of salesman!

Diane Deputy

Dear Karl, So happy to hear you and your wife are doing so well. With all the increased interest in genealogy, there should also be many more interested in finding German ancestors.

I will always be appreciative of the fine work you did clearing the block on our Dreier family in Lippe, Germany. Later, I was able to extend the line even further, by following an inspired happening in the Staatsarchiv in Detmold, which led me to Sternberg in Lippe and contacted the church in that area.   Karl, all the best to you and your wife!    Sincerely, Diane Deputy

Roots & branches: An exciting collection of genealogical success stories

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www.GermanGenealogist.com solves another mystery!  OK, so it was just about records; so what? This is the KEY piece of data needed to continue research!

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Parish registers, Catholic Church, Sacred Heart, Bloemfontein (Orange Free State), 1849-1992
authors: Catholic Church. Sacred Heart (Bloemfontein, Orange Free State), (Main Author)
format: Manuscript/On Film
language: English, Latin
publications: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992
physical: on 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm.

Microfilm of records in the archives of the Roman Catholic Church, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa.

Text in English and Latin.  Includes indexes.

Baptisms, marriages, confirmations, first communions, and deaths of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. Confirmation, marital and death information is sometimes included with baptismal records.

Subjects    South Africa, Orange Free State, Bloemfontein – Church records

Film Notes   Note   Location   Film

Marriages 1882-1902 Baptisms 1882-1898 Marriages (addenda) 1902-1907 Marriages 1902-1924   FHL INTL Film   1864076 Items 2-4

Marriages 1924-1954   FHL INTL Film   1864076 Items 6-8

Marriages (civil copy) 1954-1972 Marriages (parish copy) 1924-1992  FHL INTL Film 1864077 Items 1-3

Baptisms index 1849-1929 Baptisms (parish copy) 1849-1881, 1898-1950  FHL INTL Film 1864077 Items 10-13

Baptisms 1950-1992 Confirmations 1887-1944  FHL INTL Film  1864078 Items 1-5

Confirmations 1947-1992 First communions 1946-1991   FHL INTL Film  1864078 Items 7-8
Deaths 1930-1992  FHL INTL Film   1864078 Items 10-11