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German-Bohemian 
Heritage Society

    Leit haltn mir zam 
Und gehn ma niat ausanand. 

People let us hold together 
and let us not separate. 

 
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25th Anniversary Celebration!

Open House at the GBHS Research Library
Friday, 23 October, evening
1200 South Broadway

Genealogy Conference
Saturday, 24 October
Registration begins at 9 a.m.
New Ulm Country Club

Speakers include:
Annette Atkins is a professor of history at St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict. She has recently written a unique and fascinating history of Minnesota entitled Creating Minnesota.

Deborah Miller is a reference specialist at the Minnesota Historical Society where she has worked for more than 30 years. Her specialties are labor relations and food. It is rumored she has more than 1000 cookbooks in her collection.

Mary Bakeman is a certified genealogist and owner of Park Genealogical Books. She was instrumental in establishing the Genealogy Help Desk at the Minnesota History Center and has recently published Trail of Tears: Minnesota's Dakota Indian Exile Begins.

Daniel Nützel is a German linguist teaching at the University of Regensberg, Germany. He was the editor and was very instrumental in the publication of Paul Kretsch's book The German-Bohemian Dialect Remembered.

The afternoon will conclude with our annual GBHS business meeting.

Your board of directors is hard at work finalizing the details. A registration form will be mailed out later this summer including a more detailed schedule and pricing information for the conference and dinner.

 


Updated Library Listings
The listings of printed materials available for research at the GBHS Library and Resource Center has been updated. See the Library page for the updated listings.



 

2007  Issues of the Heimatbrief
Now Posted

(To view go to Heimatbrief page.


 
 

Surname Database Has Been Updated
20 June 2009

Check the Surnames page to see the updated German-Bohemian immigrant surname database.


 


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