160+ online Linkedin.com Endearing Endorsements, Commendations & Kudos from coaches, colleagues & clients for this gifted & talented researcher--& that's just since July 2008! & that's just from folks who happen to be on Linkedin! http://www.Linkedin.com/in/germangenealogist
Karl has received hundreds more offline client letters of gratitude & commendation since 1979. This, due to Karl's having found ancestral data, often within MINUTES, that other researchers either did not, could not or would not find.
Since 1979, THOUSANDS of data, documents & images for THOUSANDS of ancestral family members for HUNDREDS of clients' ancestral family members have been found by The German Genealogist!
After THOUSANDS of hours of German Genealogy research, in 1984, Karl-Michael Sala was accredited as a German Genealogist by the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After more than a decade of absolutely stunning successes for his clients, Karl was run into by a drunk pick-up truck driver. This 1995 near-death experience ultimately caused that his accreditation was involuntarily pulled. This was to protect the name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, since '95, along with Karl's recovery, Karl has had more success than ever for clients, patrons, himself & his living family members!
Since 1980, Karl has traveled 7 times behind the former Iron Curtain to East Germany to successfully exhaust hundreds of parish registers of the target ancestral family members.
Karl is a former USAFR Intelligence Officer who earned a Deserving Airman Commission while he had been serving as an Intelligence Operations Specialist & Linguist (German), Interrogator, Debriefer (non-commissioned officer at that time)
Karl is the very 1st person hand-picked for the Paid Expert Ancestry Research Line at Ancestry.com. His wife, Lynell Sala was the 2nd person selected for their short-lived, but highly successful Paid Expert Research Team!
When that project was abandoned, because of his language & research skills, Karl was promoted to taking the majority of research-oriented emails & phone calls from Europe for Ancestry.de, the Deutschland, i.e. Germany, version of Ancestry.com!
As the primary European ancestral genealogy & family history research consultant, Karl served Europeans in their native German language. This further fulfills blessings he had been given earlier in his life.
On the Ancestry.com International Team, Karl served as a consultant for Australia, Austria, Great Britain & mainland Europe! He cracked & solved many cases in those diverse locations.
For their clients, Karl & Lynell have found data & documents on thousands of living & deceased persons. The German Genealogist has solved cases that others said "can't be done!"
Just since Memorial Day 2010, Lynell & Karl-Michael Sala have cracked 6 cases in 6 locations! Germany (4), Lithuania (Littau, i.e East Prussia or Ostpreussen), Poland (5) (Posen or Poznan), Atlantic Ocean & the USA.
Indeed, Karl-Michael Sala is a Master German Genealogist!
Georgia Posvar (client) Georgia hired [& commended] you as a Genealogist in 2011
Carol J Catlin
Carol J Catlin wrote: I will give poetry that I have created and self-published to you online, entitled, “You Know Me”, to you in return for one hours search. There are over 150 poems and several pieces of creative writing.( some pieces are probably better than others) I also have some poetry I haven’t published yet. My 2nd great grandmother was born 10 Feb 1843 in Luneburg, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Her name was Maria Beiriger when she died, but before, when she gave birth to one of her children, her name was Maria Weideler according to family members. I have not found her on the index or at least names that look like they could be a variation of that name. If that is a good offer, I would be pleased to exchange. I mean no offense. Sincerely,
Carol “”
Karl rapidly responded: My reply through my website, for some reason, did not take. So, I’ll put it here & then email you directly.
carolcatlin@gmail.com
Dear Carol, For future missives, let us email directly. Tell me if this message came through with some gibberish in it.
Yes! The title sounds like a great piece, Carol. However, I would also like a copy of the book.
You might be interested to know that one of my clients is the publisher of Gentry Magazine.
If you have works that are ancestral, history or family-oriented, those would also be desirable. If I post any of them, it will include your name, email address, URL & whatever else you request. For additional works that I wish to use, you will get more research.
If we find your ancestor, I hereby request that you write a piece about the spiritual triad: her, you & me.
I would need to see any data, documents & images you already have on the target ancestor, names of all spouses & children, i.e. in USA records. Is your family tree online anywhere, eg. Ancestry.com? If so, invite me to the tree as an “Editor.” I capably & stunningly do this now for several clients. My clients are shocked with the great things we add there. If you don’t have one there now, I believe they are still doable for no cost at all. Why? It’s in their, your & my interest.
In 2006, when Ancestry.com created a research team to help people on the telephones, guess who was THE very 1st person they picked? Right. Karl Sala. Who was 2nd? My wife, Lynell! Why? How about an 80% success ratio in actually finding what their subscribers had been trying to find for the last 3 decades?
Lynell is also a sharp cookie. Lynell Pierce Sala has singlehandedly cracked 4 matriarchal German lineage cases for our clients–& she neither speaks, reads, not writes German!
With what you send me–about your target ancestor–via email or regular mail, I will first analyze what you have. More importantly, I need to see what you do NOT have. Then, depending on what we see & don’t see, we’ll probably order the Lüneburg specific microfilm to see whom I can find being born on that date. It was an index as I recall, but perhaps it is alphabetical AND chronological, i.e. giving some indication as to date.
Or, I might be able to see something on the microfilm that you did not. That has happened, oh, about 100 times since 1979.
What was her religion, as far as you know?
So, if this were a missing child, & I were the investigator (which I am) you would give me EVERYTHING you have and know about this child, wouldn’t you? Do likewise for this child, too.{;>)
We believe she wants to be found & is highly interested in you-n-yours. Whether you believe this matters not, for if it causes us to do great work for you, then that is all that matters, right? No, I am not a psychic. This is not a ghostly affair, but rather a loving ancestral love affair with her descendants, who also love & respect her.
See the last chapter of the Old Testament in Malachi. Also, the very first chapter of the New Testament also begins with a genealogy.
…And some people try to tell me that genealogy is not important.
Lynell &/or Karl-Michael Sala
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