Marilyn over at IMMIGRANT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY in Burbank California is a Wealth of Knowledge who is also Womanning the Fort!
I spent a few hours looking over their collection, seeing where the books they have and my research might meet. Some of the Germans I'm researching first went into other countries before they came to America meaning that I'm looking into Transylvania and Slovakia and and Hungary before I go back to Germany.
IMMIGRANT GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is kind of a secret resource.
THE OUTSTANDING STRENGTHS OF THIS COLLECTION :
A huge collection of road maps - many from Germany - that you can fold out.
POMERANIAN special interest group: http://www.pomeranianews.com/
MECKLENBURG EMIGRANTS DATABASE by special arrangement with Rostock, Germany listing 20,000 Germans who left Germany. ONLY COPY IN THE UNITED STATES.
Several hundred German Ortsippenbooks for German towns.
And much more!
Become a member for one fee and come in all you like for a year or pitch in $2 minimum towards the rent each time you visit.(Or make Marilyn a volunteer offer she can't refuse!)
1310 West Magnolia Blvd
Burbank, CA, USA
(818) 848-3122 Call for hours, speakers, and more information.
Tell Marilyn that "Ancestry Worship Genealogy" sent you!
