Previously I posted my discovery of my family’s information on the passenger list of the Blatchford that brought them to America from Germany. As I stated before, hearsay is good but documentation is gold. I also had come across church records from my father’s village in present day Poland before and still need to visually scan those microfilmed records.
Well, now I’ve found out about a web site that has digitized the records and lists from Displaced Person Camps in Germany from after World War II. The web site is called International Tracing Service and pertains to the people who were in Nazi concentration camps, labor camps, and ghettos. My parents met while they were interned in a labor camp in Ulm, Germany. I’m hoping to find some information about my family on this site. Otherwise, I’d have to write to someone in Germany to see if I could locate any records. To that point, I heard from someone on another genealogy group that suggested that I check out another person’s web site, Olga Kaczmar’s genealogy site. I was informed that Olga’s site had a lot of information on gathering information from Germany. I’ve added that to my To-Do list.
The Service is still adding to their digitized collection so if I don’t find anything now I’ll have to come back. I use Evernote to keep track of these web sites and articles that I find useful and may want to refer back to in the future. And when I get a chance, I’ll update the links found on the right sidebar.
