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Russian soldiers marching in Reval during the 1905 revolution

Photograph of Russian soldiers marching in the streets of Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia) during the 1905 Revolution. The photograph was likely taken by businessman Leopold Haase, perhaps from an upper story of the store he ran; it was sent as...

Photograph of Leopold Haase with Cossack soldiers, 1905

Photograph of Leopold Haase (of Reval, Russia) with a group of Russian Cossack soldiers, sent as an enclosure with a letter written to his cousin Charles Haase.

Bürgerwissenschaftlerinnen zeigen außerordentliches Engagement

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...

Interview mit einer Schreibgruppe aus dem Saarland

National Genealogical Society Award for “German Heritage in Letters”

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

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.

News: German Immigrant Letters Contest!

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News: A Virtual Family Reunion

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”

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?

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

New Exhibit: “Invitation to Indiana”

Our new digital exhibit, “Invitation to Indiana: John Weinhardt's Story” begins in 1923, when a fifteen-year-old from the town of Schwabach, in Bavaria, sent a letter to the United States hoping to make contact with the descendants of a distant...

Wunderbar Together USA 2020

We are incredibly pleased and honored to share that German Heritage in Letters has been chosen as one of the projects to receive support from Wunderbar Together USA 2020!

New Feature: Transcription Challenges

Interview mit „Transcriber Dilla“

Wir haben eine unserer aktivsten ehrenamtlichen Transkriptorinnen, Sonja Thiele, die den Benutzernamen "Dilla" trägt, gebeten, uns mehr darüber zu erzählen, was sie an der Arbeit für German Heritage in Letters besonders reizt und was...

German Life Magazine Profiles “German Heritage in Letters”

St. Louis Digitization Day

“German Heritage in Letters” Shared at Digital History Conference