Please add the emails back into the function for asking for help to all members of that community.
Please add the emails back into the function for asking for help to all members of that community. I have learned a tremendous amount of real-life german script from people's questions as well as situations and geography.
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Absolutely. I have made this suggestion myself. The fact that a group of people must have thought email notifications containing recent activity in groups was not needed astounds me.
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I joined this group ten days before the recent change. In the one and only email I received, someone asked a question regarding where to look for records for a specific town. I took that url link and deleted her town and put my town in and I have added 12, yes 12, new direct line ancestors to my tree. I have been looking for them for 38 years and my aunt even went to Germany looking for them many years ago. This one link has changed my life. https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/bestande/ If it hadn't been for that group email, I may never have found them. Please bring back the weekly emails. Thank you.
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A lot of people found the group emails helpful, and people who did not want to receive the emails could change their email preferences in the old Community.
@Deanna Kleymann Hammond, Matricula-Online is one of the best websites out there for German records; it contains tons of Catholic records. The website Archion.de contains tons of Protestant records (that one is subscription-based, however). Please note that there are several blue links to various websites and resources at the top of each research group; for example, at the top of the Germany research group https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/88-germany-genealogy-research you can see links to Archion and Matricula, among other things, and you can scroll sideways (using the cursor at the bottom of the list) to view additional links. I hope you find some more helpful tools there!
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