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Gottschee is a Team under the Germany Project

Welcome to the Gotschee Team

The Gottschee Region was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during 1918–1941

Mission

The goal of this team is to pull together all Gottscheer profiles and associate them with the correct villages and houses.

How did the Gottschee Team begin at WikiTree?

From Dawn Ellis: "I don't actually have Gottscheer roots, but I find it absolutely fascinating that a group of people were able to keep their culture and language alive for hundreds of years while surrounded by another language and culture. When I started working on the genealogy of a friend, I had no knowledge of the Gottscheer people. Neither did he. He thought he might be Yugoslavian, but really had no idea."

How to Join

If you would like to be involved in the Gottschee Team, please do the following:

1. Join the Germany Project and get a project member badge. The join post can be accessed on the main project page.
2. Please post a comment on this page or send Dawn a private message.
3. Add Germany to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all our discussions in your G2G Feed.
4. Add your name to the Team Members list below, along with a note about what you're working on in this team right now (please also include which colony villages your family is from, if you know).

Tasks

• Identify ancestors with Gottscheer roots.
• Identify their village and house numbers.
• Add sources to Gottschee profiles.
• Add WikiTree categories to your ancestors with Gottschee roots that include the village and house number, ie: Category:Unterlag house 5 and Category:Gottschee (don't forget the double square brackets). If your village or town has not been created yet, ask the categorization project to make one for you.
• Copy and paste the template below on profiles that have German ancestry.
  

  ... ... ... has German Roots.
  It displays as:

{{German Roots Sticker}}

Team Members

• Dawn Ellis
• Maggie N. - Working on adding sources, adding connections & categories to Gottschee profiles at WikiTree.
• Stephen Sanders - Most of my ancestors ended up in the Parish of Tschermoschnitz (specifically Reuter), although I also have ancestors from the Parish of Semitsch and from elsewhere in and around the Gottschee area. I am currently adding profiles of direct relatives and extended family.

Resources

• Lost Gottschee Villages in Slovenia Part 1A–J. Published 2018.
• Wikipedia has a List of Gottschee German villages.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschee
• History of Gottscheer
• Early History of Gottschee–Kočevje by Edward Skender This old website may dissapear. Print this out.
• An Attempt to Keep the Dying Gottschee Culture Very Much Alive Smithsonian Magazine. By Daniel A. Gross. smithsonian.com Published July 14, 2015
• https://gottschee.org/
• Genealogical Records
• Gottschee Surnames
• GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE COUNTY OF GOTTSCHEE by Dr. Stanislav Južnič.
• Linkpendium Links for Gottschee
• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Slovenia_Websites
• German Glossary