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You can easily make the German umlauts and ß on your computer.

Hold down the Alt key, and on the numeric keypad, type the number and then
release the Alt key:

ä = 132
Ä = 142
ë = 137
ï = 139
ö = 148
Ö = 153
ü = 129
Ü = 154
ß = 225

You must use the numbers on the numeric keypad. It will not work if you use
the numbers on the regular keyboard. You must hold the Alt key down while
you type the number.

As you hold down the Alt key, type on your numeric keypad the decimal code
for
the character (this is in Wordperfect and Netscape)
ä= 132
Ä= 142
ö= 148
Ö= 153
ü= 129
Ü= 154
ß= 225 and
£= 156 (The English Pound Sterling symbol)

The complete list is at Use the
3-digit decimal reference number as xxx in the ALT-0xxx format.

There are on-line translation websites & dictionaries:

German/English Dictionary
http://www.lhs-lt.de/en/products/t1woerter.htm
German/English Dictionary
http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh
German/English Dictionary http://dictionaries.travlang.com/GermanEnglish/
German to English genealogical symbols and abbreviations:
http://w3g.med.uni-glessen.de/gene/misc/gensig.html
German genealogical terms http://thorin.adnc.com/~lynnd/vuword.html
German to English Translator http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911/language.htm
German to English Translator
http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/language.htm
Translations - To look at pages in other languages, go to
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Translations http://www.nytimes.com/partners/babylon/
Translate single words or complete web page
http://www.tranexp.com/InterTran.cgi
Translation Service for Genealogists. Free translation service in English
and available in 23 languages at: http://translation.francegenweb.org/

Reliability is an issue. You may want to test the translation site by
asking it to translate a sentence from English into German. Then enter =
the
resulting sentence in German & ask it to translate it back into English.
Then see if the sentence in English that comes back is coherent with
relatively the same meaning as the original.

The state of Thuringia has been refounded 1920, the time before it was
divided in 8 fully independed duchies and principalities:

Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
Sachsen-Koburg-Gotha
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Sachsen-Meiningen
Sachsen-Altenburg
Reuss juengere Linie
Reuss aeltere Linie

You can find any town on earth at
http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/towns.htm

Use Site #1 for town names before 1960 in Germany.
Use Site #2 for town names since then.

You can also use
http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/index.htm
for postal zip codes in Germany. Scroll down to the
link.

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