http://www.paradoxicalpeople.com/paradoxicalpeople/the_mother_teresa_connection/

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true friends; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world your best anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

…Jesus said that there are two great commandments—to love God, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. So in the final analysis, it is between you and God, but it is also between you and “them.” And when it comes to them, Jesus made it clear that we have to love people and help people anyway. We can’t give up on them or ignore them or write them off. That is the point of the Paradoxical Commandments as well—we find meaning when we love and help people, no matter who they may be, or how difficult they may be. We find meaning by loving and helping them anyway.

February 20, 2006 in The Mother Teresa Connection

Karl adds:  Jesus said, “If you love me, feed my sheep.”  This means even if the “sheep, i.e. your fellow man” are seemingly mentally ill,  disparage your name & character, find fault within you, steal from you, kick you in the teeth, nail you to their cross, etc.

Our Deepest Fear in German Genealogy & as GermanGenealogist.com   (Is it sub-consciously yours, too?)

by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (It has been incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela)

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

This inspiring quote by Marianne Williamson is from her book, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 (Pg. 190-191).

Another prospect’s German Genealogy research case is cracked in a New World passenger list & confirmed in the Old World’s Hamburg Passenger [departure] List!

This was done for a Genealogy Freelancers German Genealogy research prospect, who has yet to hire or select us to complete the upload of his digital images to Box.net.  From there, the digital images are retrievable by the client or his fellow descendants, 24/7!  How would it be if we could do that for you, too?

We first found the target family’s arrival in the New World.  That data, document & image indicates the target ancestor, his brother & brother’s wife had arrived via Hamburg.  Half-Bingo!  So we then go to both the Direct & Indirect Indexes to find these 3 relatives traveling together on the same ship, with slightly different spellings of the surname, D________N. 

It also provides their place of last residence!  This geo-data is absolutely crucial for continuing research!  However, not every emigrant departed from Hamburg.

We’ll share more details after (if?) the client hires us to continue the research.

When you are finally ready to pay someone to professionally research German census records, i.e. just what is publicly available online or offline, contact GermanGenealogist.com = Karl-Michael Sala = karlmsala@msn.com = 1-888-456-7252

This article is from the German Genealogy FAQ, by Jim Eggert  EggertJ@crosswinds.net with numerous contributions by others. 

German census? Other online German military records or Germany muster rolls?

The German central government conducted censuses in 1871, every five
years from 1875 to 1910, 1919, 1925, 1933, 1935 (Saar), and 1939.
West Germany had censuses in 1946, 1950, 1961, 1970, and 1987. East
Germany had censuses in 1945, 1946, 1964, 1971, and 1981. Except
for the 1939 census, these censuses are not useful for genealogical
purposes; available data are of a statistical nature only.

The central German census authority can tell you if certain censuses exist and where they can be found:

Each of the states conducted their own censuses at other times.
Some of these censuses are available via your local LDS FHC and
are quite useful genealogically.

Statistisches Bundesamt
Gustav Stresemann Ring 11
Postfach 5528
65189 Wiesbaden
http://www.destatis.de/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/German_population_1872.jpg

For German Genealogy or German-American Genealogy purposes, I always question the accuracy of historical & modern-day maps, but this demographic map taken from 1870 Census data, is certainly a good start & probably about the best you’re going to find online.