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I have been providing expert German genealogical and historical research services to private and corporate clients for over 20 years.

Specializing in regions such as Germany and the former German Eastern Provinces - East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Poznan, and Silesia - I offer comprehensive research in a wide variety of records.

These include church records, civil records, land records, emigration records, military records, school records, welfare and poor house records, tax records, newspapers, telephone directories, local chronicles, and more.

My services have supported numerous clients in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.

I have also conducted research for the US version of the TV series "Who Do You Think You Are?" and consulted on book projects such as Simon Parkin's "The Island of Extraordinary Captives" (2022) and Barbara Minchinton's "The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman" (2024).

In 2020, I worked as an expert on RootsTech's Coaches Corner and in 2023, I presented at the International Conference of the German Genealogy Partnership.

Additional specialities or search keywords
Emigration, Catholic, Lutheran, Huguenot, Jewish, Mennonite, Freemason, Military, Holocaust

Publications/Media
I wrote articles about the history of German emigration to the United States from the 17th to the 20th century. I also was invited as an expert in a TV documentation about the German- American piano maker Henry E. Steinway.

Lectures

1. Lectures on "Genealogy in the Berlin Archives"
2. Lectures on "German Emigration to North America"
3. Lecture on the "Reaction of the Government of Brunswick to Emigration in the 18th and 19th Century".
4. Lectures on "The Profession of Genealogy in Germany"

Research Time Periods

• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century
• 17th Century
• 16th Century and Earlier

Languages
English, German (native), old German handwriting, Latin

Honorifics/Credentials
I finished my studies at the University of Bamberg and the University of Edinburgh with a PhD.
 

Affiliations
I am a member of the German Society for Overseas History, the German Society for Computer Genealogy e.V., the Association for Family Research in Pomerania and the Association for Family History Research in East and West Prussia, the Brandenburg Genealogical Society "Roter Adler" e. V..

Degrees
Ph.D. (History, Communication Sciences, European Ethnology)