Wendy K Uncapher (–2008)

The Meyers gazetteer is a fundamental finding-aid for locating where your German ancestors came from. But in typical, efficient German fashion, lots of information is packed into just a few dense volumes. Its Fraktur font isn't that difficult to read, but its entries are rather cryptic, using its own terse shorthand, dozens of abbreviations, and slight punctuation differences that drastically change meanings. This short booklet (only 24 pages) is essential for understanding how to decipher Meyers, without needing a German-English dictionary. It will save you lots of time, and keep you from constantly flipping back and forth between the front matter (in German) and places you're looking up.… (mehr)