Post your family handwritten letters to celebrate National Handwriting Day.

Some old cemeteries have gravestones written in German. Here are some tips to help translate some key words.

Finding Herbert Harschnek - a little saga of 99 years parted: Starting with Alois Harschnek whom we mentioned in our last post.

I feel so very lucky that my family has saved and cared for both family photos and also diaries, letters and other family pieces. Reading...

It’s the old master’s birthday, and we’ll take that as a happy excuse to talk about names like Bach.

German has two variants for ch, depending on whether the surrounding letters are ‘bright’ or ‘dark’.   If you say “ee, ey”  versus “o, oo, a

Houses are adorned with festive lights, decorations and trees. We've some German translations to get you even more in the holiday spirit

Ä, Ö and Ü are simple variations of familiar letters, but the ​​fourth letter that German has that we don’t is the real kicker:  ß  Eszett

Old German letters are tough to read but they are mostly the same alphabet we use - just with a few variations.

Explanation on why old German writing was different than today's writing.

A family postcard goes from gibberish to treasure with translation - the magic of family genealogical translation!