Project News Items
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News: Interview with Transcriber “Dilla”
June 16, 2020We asked one of our most active volunteer transcribers, Sonja Thiele, who goes by the user name “Dilla,” to tell us more about what drew her to German Heritage in Letters, and what she imagines visitors and researchers will learn from the materials she is helping us share.
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Transcribing Together
March 31, 2020As the coronavirus pandemic changed daily routines, our friends at the Joseph M. Horner Library decided to adapt by creating an online group to transcribe letters from our collections.
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German Life Magazine Profiles “German Heritage in Letters”
December 15, 2019 -
St. Louis Digitization Day
November 19, 2019 -
“German Heritage in Letters” Shared at Digital History Conference
October 10, 2019 -
TRAFO Blog Interview About “German Heritage in Letters”
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News: Snapshot of Immigrant Dorothea Handel Schuhmacher
July 07, 2019 -
New Exhibit: “The Trader of Reval”
June 20, 2019 -
“German Heritage in Letters” Participates in IGGP Conference
June 16, 2019The “German Heritage in Letters” project participated as an exhibitor at the International German Genealogical Partnership (IGGP) conference, held in Sacramento, California, from June 15 to June 16.
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Digitization Day in Philadelphia
April 27, 2019In collaboration with the Joseph P. Horner Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania, this “Digitization Day” event invited members of the public in the Philadelphia area to bring historic correspondence for digitization and inclusion in the “German Heritage in Letters” project.
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Society for German-American Studies Symposium
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New Video Shares Importance of “German Heritage in Letters”
April 09, 2019A new video produced by German Heritage in Letters project explores the importance of our work to find, collect, and share the historic correspondence sent and received by German immigrants in the United States.
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“German Heritage in Letters” Featured in Die Welt
March 14, 2019