2010/05/21
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Historical adress books are an important reference for research in the field of regional, social and economic history as well as for genealogy. Libraries, archives and non profit-projects make these sources accessible for online use. We would like to draw … Continue reading
2008/10/23
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Half a century after the “Zimmermann” Johann Georg Knie (1794-1859) published a new and well-structured gazetteer of Silesia including the following data: place name in german and its variants in Polish, Sorbian, Czech form of settlement (hamlet, village, town) civil and church … Continue reading
2008/09/23
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Historical gazetteers are an important reference for local history and genealogy. Names of places and their belonging to church-, administration- and jurisdiction districts changed often in former Silesian areas. Friedrich Albert Zimmermann discribed already at the end of the 18. … Continue reading