Projektnachrichten

• Migrant Connections Receives Volkswagen Stiftung Grant for AI-Based Research
  01. Juni 2025

  

  The Migrant Connections project has received support from the Volkswagen Stiftung to launch the project "Let the People of the Past Speak! Turning 19th-Century Migrant Letters into Speech," which will use artificial-intelligence tools to reconstruct the sound of German dialects.

• Drei neue Transkriptionsprojekte!
  21. Mai 2025

  

  Drei neue Transkriptionsprojekte, die Briefe aus den 1860er bis 1910er Jahren darstellen, stehen jetzt Bürgerwissenschaftlern zur Bearbeitung offen.

• Interview mit Digital History Assistant Vanessa Tissen
  16. Juli 2024

  

  Vanessa Tissen, Digital History-Wissenschaftlerin an der Universität Mainz, wurde zu ihren Erfahrungen bei der Arbeit am Projekt Migrant Connections interviewt.

• We’re Now Collaborating with mit:forschen!
  14. Juni 2024

  

  Migrant Connections is now accessible for citizen scholars interested in participating in historical research projects thanks to the mit:forschen! portal

• Explore the Long History of American Dreams—or Nightmares
  31. Oktober 2023

  

  A new special exhibition on 200 objects, 40 people, and 300 years of German migration to the United States by Das Haus der Geschichte Baden Württemberg

• New Article on “Migrant Connections”
  11. Oktober 2022

  

  Our Migrant Connections research blog features a new article on German and German-American engineers.

• "Migrant Connections" launched!
  23. März 2022

  

  The new research infrastructure "Migrant Connections" was launched with an online symposium featuring scholars of migration, archivists, and citizen scholars.

• COESO Blog Post on "Expanding Migrant Knowledge"
  06. Oktober 2021

  

  Project staff Daniel Burckhardt and Jana Keck describe our new project "Writing Across Borders," a component of the COESO project to develop and sustain citizen science research in the social sciences and humanities.

• Coming Soon: Migrant Connections
  13. September 2021

  

• Bürgerwissenschaftlerinnen zeigen außerordentliches Engagement
  14. Juli 2021

  

  Sometimes, the citizen scholars who work on our collections conduct their own research to shed further light on the people and places mentioned in the letters they are studying. Two members of our transcription group from Saarland, Eva Tietjen and Regina Kunz, embarked on this path to learn more about the family networks of immigrants Charlotte Fischer von Höfeln and Eugen Klee. We asked them to discuss their motivations as well as the results of their research.

• Interview mit einer Schreibgruppe aus dem Saarland
  21. Juni 2021

  

• Our Genealogy Book Contest Returns!
  01. Juni 2021

  

  We are excited to share the news that our genealogy book contest is back! Thanks to sponsorship from Wunderbar Together we are once again offering people who contribute their letter collections to German Heritage in Letters a chance to win a package of books for researching German-American genealogy.

• National Genealogical Society Award for “German Heritage in Letters”
  18. Mai 2021

  

  The German Historical Institute was honored to receive one of three “SLAM! Idea Showcase” prizes awarded by the National Genealogical Society to projects which are innovative models for family history research.

• Interview with Historian and Transcriber Uta Dorothea Sauer
  19. Februar 2021

  

  Project intern Timothy Neckermann interviewed historian Uta Dorothea Sauer to learn more about her background and what she has found fascinating about working on the Crede collection.

• Interview with Family Historian Jay Silverberg
  16. Dezember 2020

  

  Wir haben mit Jay Silverberg gesprochen, um mehr über die historischen Briefe seiner Familie, seine Recherchen zu den Geschichten, die sie enthüllten, und seinen Rat für andere Familien zu erfahren, die Briefe von Einwanderern geerbt haben.

• Meet Transcription Coordinator Stefan Israel
  10. November 2020

  

  We asked transcription coordinator Stefan Israel to share more about how he became interested in German handwriting and what he finds most rewarding about his career.

• News: German Immigrant Letters Contest!
  15. Oktober 2020

  

• News: A Virtual Family Reunion
  16. September 2020

  

  The German Heritage in Letters project is bringing together in digital form two collections relating to the Klee family of Otterberg covering the 1890s through the 1920s.

• October 15 Talk: “From Family Research to Digital History”
  01. September 2020

  

  Project manager Atiba Pertilla will be sharing German Heritage in Letters in “From Family Research to Digital History,” an online Zoom presentation sponsored by the German Society of Pennsylvania on October 15, 2020.

• Transcription Challenge: Who Was Friedrich Wilhelm Hess?
  11. August 2020

  

  In this challenge, we invite volunteer researchers to help us transcribe letters sent to doctor and author Friedrich Wilhelm Hess by his family.