Steve Thomas

I've been in contact with Brian. I connected with one of his 3rd great grandfathers https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Luehrs-35 This person started as a Lutheran missionary to Western Australia, then became a school teacher in the Barossa Valley. An interesting point is that his cottage still stands and is now a historic museum. https://www.barossa.com/listing/luhrs-cottage-museum

Thanks for the kind offer - however I do not think I need your help.

I was rudely dumped from Wikitree and now restoring my account. I am still waiting to get my project badges back, like Project Coordinator and Community Star.

Please don't ask me what happened. I don't think anyone knows for sure.

Kind Regards, Steve.

The first principle is that empty categories should not be created - only when there is a profile that can be included in the category. The simplest way to have a category created is to ask for one on G2G in Wikitree.

There are a few people that are very interested like me. I expect that this will be tied into the Germany Project at some stage. I am still working on German Emigration to South Africa.

I thought I might tackle the migration of German Speakers with Russian Empire as my next priority.

Cheers, Steve.

I think a similar appearance is a good idea. As you say, there isn't a Russia Project, so we can proceed without much dispute.

When you say category tiers do you mean Village, Kreis, Province?

One variation worth looking at is Florian's multilingual model: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1612056/proposal-for-multilingual-banat-categories.

The example I highlighted for has the parallel parent categories for modern Serbia and the historic Temes vármegye in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Cheers, Steve.

We will not worry about parallels now, they will be set up in "de" deutsch. If and when a Russia Project becomes available they can work on the parallel.

• Only set up in deutsch.
• Do not bother with AKA parallels.
• I am very happy that you help Heike add villages.

I will keep my interest in Prussia. At the moment I am occupied with German emigration to South Africa.

I guess you have found the main index of ships carrying German emigrants to South Australia in the nineteenth century. Space:Prussian_Immigrant_Ships_to_South_Australia. The title says Prussian because that is where a big wave of migrants left from. I also have a personal interest in the miners that left the Kingdom of Hanover. Many went to Burra (then Broken Hill, Bendigo, Kalgoorlie amongst other mining regions).

I agree that identifying Irish ancestors down to lowest category (i.e. the townland) is a good objective. I agree with your point that residents inside a townland are are likely to be closely related. But, I'm now thinking that the Irish Project has applied this concept to a level that has made it more difficult for me to find my family. I know that my family lived in various townlands so it's become important to me to find people that lived within a close distance inside the Ulster province. The goal of putting a personal profile at the lowest category level is worthwhile. I don't agree that profiles should only be identified the single lowest level.