The Computer Corner  

By Duane Stabler, dstabler@bigfoot.com   

 

Number 19, September 2002, republication of this article requires prior approval from the author. This and previous Computer Corner articles can be found at http://www.northstarchapter.org/computercorner.htm

 

Over the past couple of months, Bob Fandrich has been publishing some very good websites on one of the GR listserv sites.  I know that many of you don’t follow all the traffic of these messages and you will miss out on some good information as Bob has documented.  I’ve taken a number of sites and grouped them into what you see below and given them just a bit of a review so you know what you’ll see.  I suggest you go to the Computer Corner site and use it as way of launching into the sites.  This will save you the frustration of typing in the sites.  From there, I recommend you bookmark the ones you find most useful. 

 

Old World Cooking:

 

       http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/kobu.htm Culinary & Dietetic Texts 1350-1800.  This site is dedicated to the study of historical texts on cookery, food, nutrition and dietetics.

       http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_Rumpolt1.htm This is a website that has a German cookbook going back to 1581.  It is documented in German and the author of the site indicates he’s working on translations. 

       http://cs-people.bu.edu/akatlas/Buch/buch.html This is an electronic version of Ein Buch von guter Spise. It has the German transcription from a copy printed in 1844.

 

Geography:

 

       http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/german1_shepherd.jpg  Baden map in color.

       http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/german2_shepherd.jpg Wurtemberg map.

       http://www.rollintl.com/roll/grsettle.htm German Russian Settlement map with excellent links to other GR maps.

       http://www.man.poznan.pl/~bielecki/images/posen.gif A map of Posen area extending east past Konin, with many town names in German.  The map has much detail. 

       http://members.rogers.com/kdee/Maps/Maps.html  Volga Maps with numerous links and some connection to Winnipeg.

Miscellaneous:

      http://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/ostfriesland/maps/wasserflutt.html Information about a natural disaster in Europe.  On Christmas Day in 1717 a horrific flood struck the North Sea coast, from Denmark all the way down to Amsterdam, breaching dikes and inundating hundreds of miles of low-lying farmland. The coast was permanently altered in many places. As a result of the flood, the dikes were rebuilt higher and stronger; they were not broken again until 1825.  The site also has geographical presentation of the horrible WATER FLOOD in LOWER GERMANY, which on December 25, 1717, on the holy Christian night, with uncountable damage and loss of many thousands of lives, mostly inundated the Duchies of HOLSTEIN and BREMEN, and the counties of OLDENBURG, FRIESLAND, GRÖNINGEN and NORTH HOLLAND, 1720.

       http://www.man.poznan.pl/~bielecki/mrecords.htm#119 genealogical records of Greater Poland.  I’ve included it for those of you who might find a need to research some of the Polish records. 

       http://members.rogers.com/kdee/Stuff/Timeline.html German Russian Timeline with information about the Yauks family that immigrated.  This might be good to do with your own family as you determine when everyone arrived.

      http://pages.prodigy.net/brandtfam/geneal/east-eur.htm One of 9 specialized English-language books on the list of "Twenty-five of the most useful books for German genealogical research" by Horst Reschke, German-born columnist for Heritage Quest (Sept.-Oct. 1998).  This is information as associated with Dr Ed Brandt and his son.

 

      http://feefhs.org/banat/bhistory.html At the end of the nineteenth century, there were more than two million Germans living in Hungary. During the eighteenth century, the Habsburg monarchy of Austria, which ruled Hungary at that time, had enticed Germans to emigrate to the unsettled lands of Southern Hungary.

       http://www.mennolink.org/doc/lg/index.html This Low German dictionary is offered as an encouragement towards the preservation of a much-loved Mennonite language. The majority of words in this version have been in basic use for over two and a half centuries. The word stock of this dictionary was compiled from oral and written information obtained from a host of sources. Herman Rempel, 1995 Dictionary.

      http://home.freeuk.com/russica2/books/russia/16.html foreign settlers on the steppe article.

       http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/2619/swab_voc.html   Swabish to English dictionary that looks very good.  I haven’t had the time to check out some more unusual words but suspect it’s a keeper!

      http://home.freeuk.com/russica2/books/russia/35.html Contains quite a bit of info on the very early revolutionary activity in Russia including arrests of a large group of revolutionaries in Saratov in 1873.

       http://www.dobriner-land.de/ Looks like lots of interesting articles in the Weg And Ziel for people researching in middle Poland.  The website is in German. 

       http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/altahistory/hints.htm Aside from this, there are also many other interesting topics in this keyword list.

       Revised 2-8-2003