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Course image German: Chronological Considerations
Intermediate German Records
Course Summary:
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In German courses, you've learned primarily about researching this ethnic group as a whole—mainly, the similarities virtually every researcher of German-language ancestors will encounter. In this course, you learn more about the contrasts that led to differentiations within ethnic German research depending on time period and geographic place. This course places a value on both history and dates as well as people groups.
Contact Hours: 15
Grading Scale: 70% Tests/30% Assignments
Course Length: 6 weeks
Course Content
MODULE 1
POINTS OF GERMAN HISTORY, PART 1
Germanic vs. German
Charlemagne, a National Symbol
Early Holy Roman Empire
Protestant Reformation
Thirty Years War
Later Empire and 1700s Wars
MODULE 2
POINTS OF GERMAN HISTORY, PART 2
Imperial Twilight
Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
German Confederation
Revolutions of 1848
Prussia’s Wars of Unification
Second Reich Period and Civil Registration
World War I and Aftermath
World War II and Aftermath
Today’s Germany
MODULE 3
DETERMINING NOBLE JURISDICTIONS
Reviewing sources for finding the village of origin
Germany’s current political subdivisions and archives
States and administrative divisions in the Second Reich and before
Types of resources for determining jurisdictions
Meyers Gazetteer
Decoding information from Meyers
Finding church records of non-parish villages
Historical and present-day maps
Recommended Reading
MODULE 4
IMPACT ON PARTICULAR RECORDS
Introduction: a moving target
Rundown of effect on different records
Using the Heimatdorf Karte for a village
Recommended Reading
MODULE 5
GERMANS FROM OUTSIDE GERMANY
Switzerland
Austria
Places part of Second Reich
Resources for formerly German areas
Places never part of German Empire
Profiles of Enclaves
Using HdK with “Germans outside Germany”
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Calendars
French Republican Calendar
Mapping and the Heimatdorf Karte
Recommended Reading
APPENDIX
MODULE 1
POINTS OF GERMAN HISTORY, PART 1
Germanic vs. German
Charlemagne, a National Symbol
Early Holy Roman Empire
Protestant Reformation
Thirty Years War
Later Empire and 1700s Wars
MODULE 2
POINTS OF GERMAN HISTORY, PART 2
Imperial Twilight
Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
German Confederation
Revolutions of 1848
Prussia’s Wars of Unification
Second Reich Period and Civil Registration
World War I and Aftermath
World War II and Aftermath
Today’s Germany
MODULE 3
DETERMINING NOBLE JURISDICTIONS
Reviewing sources for finding the village of origin
Germany’s current political subdivisions and archives
States and administrative divisions in the Second Reich and before
Types of resources for determining jurisdictions
Meyers Gazetteer
Decoding information from Meyers
Finding church records of non-parish villages
Historical and present-day maps
Recommended Reading
MODULE 4
IMPACT ON PARTICULAR RECORDS
Introduction: a moving target
Rundown of effect on different records
Using the Heimatdorf Karte for a village
Recommended Reading
MODULE 5
GERMANS FROM OUTSIDE GERMANY
Switzerland
Austria
Places part of Second Reich
Resources for formerly German areas
Places never part of German Empire
Profiles of Enclaves
Using HdK with “Germans outside Germany”
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Calendars
French Republican Calendar
Mapping and the Heimatdorf Karte
Recommended Reading
APPENDIX