A chance encounter with an 1801 document from Greene County, Pennsylvania got me thinking about early German records in western Pennsylvania

1934 Chicago newlyweds used their wedding photo for their Christmas card decades before photo Christmas cards were popular.

Why does German Capitalize everything? If you look at much German, you start to notice- they use a Lot of Capitalization. Not just for nam

Whether the printed German Gothic (aka Fraktur) or the old German handwriting (Kurrent or Sütterlin), here are a couple free resources to h