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Subject: Re: Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:21:20 -0700

Gary L Ramthun wrote:
>
Thank you, Gary, for explaining this to Leslie and the others. You did a
much better job than I would ever have been able to do.

On a continuing note, I have asked for the films I need to look at, I
believe, to trace my family and have to wait 4-5 weeks for these to come
in from SLC. To make sure I have the right Henriette Schlick as I look
through these films, I needed her maiden name and birth and death dates.
I could not remember that information for the life of me! I knew my
grandmother had told me at some time, but I was a child then and my
grandmother is now gone. Then, I remembered I had been given an old
picture of my great-grandmother Schlick by my grandmother. And, true to
form for her, my grandmother had her mother's married and maiden names,
birthdate AND date of her death written on the back of the photograph.
Thank goodness for my grandmother's habits!

Susan
>
> Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes (ASTAKA) (Ancestor Lineage
> Card-File of the German People) was established by Dr. Karl Fo"ster in
> Dresden in 1921. It was an extension of the Zentralstelle fu"r Personenund
> Familiengeschichte (Center for Personal and Family History). It remained
> in Dresden until 1933 when it was moved to Berlin until 1939 when it was
> returned to a cave near Dresden for protection during the war. Kurt
> Wensch reactivated the submissions to the file in 1945 and is credited with
> ASTAKA's survival. The list continued to grow until in 1991 there were
> 2.4 million index cards on file. Most of these cards are on people who
> lived from 1659-1750. The list has been maintained by the Deutsche
> Zentralstelle fu"r Genealogie since 1967.
>
> The entire archive of cards has been filmed by the LDS and fills over 600
> rolls of film.
>
> The card-file is an entire ancestry of a family. The way information was
> entered on the cards was meticulusly arranged and indexed. The data was
> submitted by Germans and traced their ancestors. It is only of help to
> immigrants and their descendents if they know the German location and close
> relatives who remained in Germany.
>
> Most of this information was extracted from an introduction and register of
> films by Thomas K. Edlund. Copies can be purchased from the German
> Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 16312, St. Paul MN. 55116-0312.
>
> I believe that most of what is needed to locate the appropriate films is on
> the LDS catalog, and on a lead in to each film.
>
> Gary Ramthun

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