Would you like to share the costs ?
Dearest Reader!
In the guest book and in emails, I can read your joy when you were able to find this or that detail pertaining to your genealogical research on my website without much trouble.
Some even find several generations of their ancestors at once!
Many express their thanks for the time and effort behind this website and some also ask how they can share the costs.
And it's true: the website doesn't just take a lot of work; it also creates a lot of expenses:
The fees for the internet provider, but those are very small.
Technical books, mainly town chronicles, but also directories (occupational descriptions, encyclopedia of towns, calendar converter, finding aids, etc.)
Costs of photocopying out-of-stock books and compositions (subscription price for 1000 copies = 50 euros)
Travel expenses for trips to archives and to assistants
Costs of photocopying files from the archives in Hamburg and Schleswig
Costs of CD's and their postage to the assistants
Costs of printer toner and paper
You can see that "job salary" is not at issue here. It's also not necessary, because this website is a hobby, after all.
It is another matter, though, when I am specifically requested to do research and work on only this matter for hours. For that (certainly in consideration of professional genealogists), I must have payment. But I only do such research in exceptional cases and prefer to leave them to the church archivists and commercial genealogists. I simply do not have the time for it.
My last "acquisitions" were:
1 used printer (as new) Canon IP4000 at ebay : 145.95 euros
States Archive Hamburg: copies of books full of handwritten documents from the Wandsbek estate 1630 - 1707, 3 volumes, 548 photos on 4 DVD; 297.50 euros
1200 photocopies from a manuscript "Families in parish Klein-Wesenberg" , 60 euros
3 toner cartridges = 12 euros, 3 packs of paper (500 sheets each) = 9 euros
Town chronicle, Title: The Manor of Ahrensburg von 1715 bis 1867 (in German), 28 euros
Town chronicle from Poppenbüttel: A Walk through the Past in German), 1990, antiquarian, 16 euros
History of hamburgian villages (in German), by Prof. Fuesslein, 1937, antiquarian, 30 euros
Paleography - diplomatics - archival texts for practice (in German), 20 euros
States Archive of Schleswig-Holstein ("LAS"): Finding Book Abt. 111 Ämter Reinbek, Trittau, Tremsbüttel, 15.20 euros
Photocopies of the following manuscripts of E.A. Kasten: Ortschronik Rümpel, town chronicles Schulenburg and Neritz, tot. 500 pages = 25 euros
Photocopies from the LAS: Letter from the priest of Eichede to the mayor of Steinhorst
with listing of the residents of Stubben who were married or buried in Eichede (1720-1811), 43 pages = 25,80 euros
Photocopies from the LAS: Bureau invoices for Trittau and Reinbek, 1720 + 1730, 39,80 euros
Photocopies from the LAS: Debt and collateral transcripts from the public records office of Trittau from 1618 (20 pages), 6 euros
My planned "acquisitions":
LAS Abt. 111, No. 1809: tenant register from the office of Reinbek 1776, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 218, 218a, 219: population register from the office of Reinbek 1777, 1789,1796, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 346: copial book with pardons, lease holdings and contracts, from the office of Reinbek 1506 - 1638, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 704: Hamburg subjects in the parish of Siek, 1680 - 1800, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 705: subjects from Meilsdorf in the parish of Siek, 1753 - 1798, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 533.6, 1789: population register from the office of Trittau 1779, 1808, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 1539: population register from the office of Tremsbüttel 1789, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 1540: population register from the office of Manors Lasbek (Eichede) and Mönkenbrook (Sülfeld) 1789, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 1401: membership roster of the fire guild of Trittau 1685, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 441 / 449 incl.: yard lands, cottages, and estates in the office of Trittau, photocopies, ?? euros
LAS Abt. 111, No. 443: Farms and yard lands in Eichede, photocopies, ?? euros
... and much, much more.
So.... would you like to share the costs? That would be most amicable of you and would help us all (namely, the "StormarnTeam" and you as user of the website).
With hope for your understanding of this question and warmest thanks in advance,
Your Peter (Dörling)
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