{"id":1585,"date":"2018-09-13T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T16:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T16:27:39","slug":"thanks-to-the-palatines-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to the Palatines To America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/091318_1627_Thankstothe1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>Last weekend the Colorado chapter of Palatines to America, a national group that researches German-speaking ancestors, hosted a half-day session at the Denver Public Library. The speaker was Katherine Schober, a German-English genealogy translator.\n<\/p>\n<p>My husband\/tech advisor (who is half German) and I decided to go. We were glad we did.\n<\/p>\n<p>Katherine addressed a couple of topics including an introduction to German genealogical research and some tips and tricks for deciphering German handwriting. She introduced us to helpful websites.\n<\/p>\n<p>Katherine was a good, entertaining speaker. She also took time during a break to look at a puzzling, centuries-old German document related to my husband&#8217;s family. She identified it as a journeyman&#8217;s record. This is an exciting find for us.\n<\/p>\n<p>From her presentation, we picked up several good strategies to use as we pursue our own research. I also picked up an application to join the Palatines organization.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have attended many of their events. My motive was to become more knowledgeable and help my husband with his research. Now, with a recent DNA match to a German family in my dad&#8217;s line (Stillabower), I feel like I can join this German group on my own behalf.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend the Colorado chapter of Palatines to America, a national group that researches German-speaking ancestors, hosted a half-day session at the Denver Public Library. The speaker was Katherine Schober, a German-English genealogy translator. My husband\/tech advisor (who is half German) and I decided to go. We were glad we did. Katherine addressed a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}