The CD's are not all completed yet, and contain about 10 volumes per CD. C. A. Starke has completed transfering the 119 volumes of the original texts onto CD Rom [out of 216 volumes, total]. C. A. Starke, Verlag, [publisher], states that there are over 445,ooo names in the volumes. I can assure you, there are many many more that are not indexed by the publisher.
Libraries in the United States: [This is not a conclusive list. If you find others please contact me.]
1. Family History Library, International floor, all volumes, and CDs, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Go to the desk downstairs, and they will direct you to the small volumes.
Be sure to take your "Guide to Reading Geschlechterbuchs" with you. They 'may' have a copy available.
The FamilySearch.org Online Catalogue lists Geschlechterbuchs:
1. choose KEYWORD
2. then enter the search words: Deutsches Geschlecterbuch:
go to:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
2. Family History Library, Mesa, AZ, CD's only.
4. BYU Family History Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah - has only a few copies of the original texts
5. Los Angeles Public Library, has the volumes, in the History/Genealogy dept, according to a post on Rootsweb, in 2003.
6. I was able to find a few copies listed on Ebay, and at one time was able to purchase the volume I translated, from Able Books, out of Switzerland. It was the only copy they had of the volume I needed. Other volumes were available, however.
Please contact me and I will add other locations here, as we find them.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Guide to Reading Geschlechterbuchs: Link directions

Go to this site: http://www.wolfensberger.org/pages/543140/index.htm
Click on the link Title Guide to Reading Geschlechterbuchs, found part way down the page.
If the diacritic symbols, i.e., a six pointed star, do not show up in the pdf, try using Explorer as your browser instead.
Feel free to look around our Wolfensberger Family Association site, particularly at the History tab.
http://www.wolfensberger.org/pages/543125/oath.html which describes the incredible event, known as the Oath at Rueti, shown in the picture above.
The "general" translation of an original old document, describing the event, is found on this page. This translation into English was made by a Swiss Wolfensberger Family Association member, Dr Rudolf Wolfensberger, of Solothurn, of the Wolfensberger Family Association, WFA. It describes the monumental event which occurred as a declaration of Swiss Independence, which was the the turning point for that nation.
I am attempting to find a print and true title of this picture. The artist's name and source of this picture is unknown to us.
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