[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Need help in translating English to German

[Paul Rakow]

 Gloria, 

    Back when internet genealogy was still rather new, Arthur Teschler
 set up a translation service. It had a lot of traffic in past years, 
 but has rather been forgotton now. 

    You send a short text (up to about 40 lines), the subject should be
 connected with genealogy, to the address
 trans at genealogy.com

    Before your text put 

 #ENG>GER 
 if you want English turned to German, 

 #GER>ENG 
 for German to English. (Some other language pairs are also possible). 
 
   The computer then sends it on to a volunteer human translator, who will
 probably do a much better job of the translation than any babelfish-style
 robot. 

    Because it's a human, not a computer doing the translation, you might
 have to wait a little while for a response. Wait at least a week before
 sending a reminder, and if you do, please make it a polite one. 

    You can see more about the service at
   http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~aeimhof/translat.htm

           Paul Rakow 
           (one of the volunteer translators)
           rakow at ifh.de 

> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Need help in translating English to
> 	German

 gloriah4 at juno.com wrote: 
> 
> Is there anyone available to translate a brief e-mail from English to
> German for me? A gentleman wrote to me, in German, apparently regarding
> his ancestors in Heimthal. My husband was able to do a basic translation
> of it from German to English and now I need to send this gentleman my
> response. Since my husband does not trust his written German enough to
> risk translating my response back to German, I need someone who can and
> who will have the time to do so.
>