[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Footnote and National Archives data

[Sue Eipert]

Hello,

See 
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/01/national_archiv.html 
for information about the launch of some federal archive data on 
Footnote (www.footnote.com/nara)

One of the sections of data on Footnote is FBI records from the early 
1900's, including an 'old German file'. I was going to describe for you 
more about what was on the site, but the link has just stopped working. 
Maybe they're overloaded because of the publicity. What I did look at 
was interesting - and could provide clues for the location of various of 
our immigrant families. The records I looked at were short FBI reports 
saying things like "such and such spoke out against the war (with the 
statements listed) and bears watching." There was one about a woman who 
liked to sit around and talk to people!

You can do a search for free to see what is there, but you need to 
subscribe to see the images. I signed up for the $9.99 monthly 
subscription.

Sue Eipert
seipert2 at eipertinfo.com