DVD Booklet - Table of Contents
Table of Contents for the DVD Booklet
Introduction 1
History of emigration from the Waldmünchen area 1
Georg Ederer genealogies 3
Preserving Georg Ederer's work 5
Picture identification project 6
Finding your ancestor on Georg Ederer's pedigrees 7
An index of last names and towns 7
What was indexed 7
Checking for errors 7
The logic of the file naming system on the DVD 7
Living persons 8
There are 3 types of indexes for Georg Ederer's work 8
How to use the indexes 8
Picture tutorial - how to use the "Last Name" index 9
Last names with "in" added 9
Variations of town names 9
To view the files on the DVD 11
Using the Ederer information for your family research 12
Interpreting Georg Ederer's pedigrees 12
German words used on the pedigrees, and translation to English 14
Occupation, profession, status, relationships 14
Translation of miscellaneous words 14
Months 15
Symbols found on pedigrees 15
Dates 15
Symbols over letters such as "n" and "m" 15
Umlauts and sharp (double) "ss" 15
Difference between emigrant and immigrant 15
Jung Abbreviations 15
Otto Horz dissertation (emigration book) 16
About Otto Anton Horz 16
Otto wished to have his work made public 17
Other dissertations about emigrations 17
Was there a reason for writing a dissertation about emigration? 18
The Horz dissertation was rediscovered and retyped 19
Publishing the dissertation - 2011 19
Otto Horz: DVD files and indexes 19
Errors in the dissertation (original and retyped) 20
Indexes of the Horz dissertation 20
What was indexed, and problems discovered 20
Abbreviations and the lettering system used in the Otto Horz dissertation 21
How to search for text in PDFs 21
Hansjörg Schneider research 22
1999 Schneider research 23
1992 book about immigrants 24
2010 essay about immigrants 24
Additional resources regarding emigrants from Germany to Wisconsin 25
Books 25
Groups 27
Archives in Germany 27
More about villages in Bavaria 27
DVD Order Form 28