{"id":1619,"date":"2015-12-14T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2015-12-14T01:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:27:53","slug":"meyers-orts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Meyers Orts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ancestry.com<\/i>\u00a0has\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1074\">Meyers Geographical and Commercial Gazetteer of the German Empire<\/a><\/i>available online as color scans of an original copy of the book (as a free item). The scans are nice to use and very readable.<\/p>\n<p>A while back I recorded a presentation on using\u00a0the <i>Meyers Orts<\/i>\u00a0gazetteer. It&#8217;s aimed at those who have been hesitant to use this finding aid to 19th and 20th century German places because of the language and the type.<\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-RAcZAgTmALo\/VCbrsJ_pdCI\/AAAAAAAANso\/k18rIfEQP4w\/s1600\/wiesens-meyers-orts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-RAcZAgTmALo\/VCbrsJ_pdCI\/AAAAAAAANso\/k18rIfEQP4w\/s1600\/wiesens-meyers-orts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"102\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\"><i>Meyers-Orts<\/i>\u00a0entry for Wiesens.<br \/>\nImage courtesy of<i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10467614\" target=\"_top\">Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/a><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our approach is down-to-earth and hands-on. We don&#8217;t expect you to learn German to use this gazetteer, but we will show you how to find out where the local post office was&#8211;and the nearby church and other villages.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/getdpd.com\/v2\/cart\/add\/11078\/94264\/98847\"> presentation can be ordered here<\/a>&#8211;download is immediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com\u00a0has\u00a0Meyers Geographical and Commercial Gazetteer of the German Empireavailable online as color scans of an original copy of the book (as a free item). The scans are nice to use and very readable. A while back I recorded a presentation on using\u00a0the Meyers Orts\u00a0gazetteer. It&#8217;s aimed at those who have been hesitant to use this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}