Sonja Hoeke-Nishimoto, A.G.

She attended Brigham Young University, majoring in German. Sonja is married and has two children. She has been a professional Germanic and Slavic researcher since 1982. She began her employment at the Family History Library (FHL) at Salt Lake City in 1984 as a part-time Germanic reference consultant and began full-time employment in 1989.

She received status of an Accedited Genealogist (A.G.) from the FHL in 1987 with a German specialty. She is especially interested in the eastern provinces of the old German Empire. Her areas of research interest include Germany, Switzerland, Poland, and the Netherlands. She accepts research assignments and projects - large and small - in her areas of research.

Of special personal interest to her is the region of Silesia, or in Polish - Slask - formerly known as Schlesien in Prussia, where her mother and half of her ancestry is from. She is currently extracting the marriage records for the Roman Catholic Parish of Wisnicze in the diocese of Toszek, Poland. It is formerly Wischnitz (Kreis Tost-Gleiwitz) Schlesien, Germany; also called Kirschen; now Wisnicze (Gliwice), Katowice, Poland. Her work will span the era from 1766-1900, She will make such lookups available for a modest fee. She has traveled to this region, as well as many others, and done research in local parishes and archives in Poland and Germany.

She has written various articles in the German Genealogical Digest and 10 other publications, listed below:

Hamburg Passenger List Index 1872. Printed 1994 FHL Book call 943.515/H1 W39h 1872, FHL Film 1183696, items 3-6.
Index of all names on direct and indirect index 1872

Breslau Parish Jurisdictions 1869-1936. Printed 1991 FHL Book call 943.85/B2 K24h, FHL Film 1573154, item 9.
Listing of streets in Breslau, now Wrol~aw, and parishes to which they were assigned.

Berlin Evangelical Parish Jurisdictions. Printed 1991 FL Book call 943.155/B1 K24h, FHL Film 1183659, item 6.
Listing of streets in Berlin and parishes to which they were assigned.

Berlin Civil Registration Jurisdictions. Printed 1992 FHL call 943.155/B1 E 44h, FHL Film 1573208, item 13.
Listing of streets in Berlin and the civil registration district to which they belong.

Zapisy Urodzen Parafii rzymsko-katolickiej Wisnicze w latach 1770-1800. Printed 1993.
Extractions of birth records of Wisnicze, Poland from 1770-1800. FHL Book call 943.85/W2 D2h, FHL Film 1573223, item 1.

Stettin Parish and Civil Registration Jurisdictions. Printed 1994. FHL Book call 943.81/S1 K24h, FHL Film 1183703, item 5.
Listing of streets in Stettin, now Szczezin, Poland and the parish and civil registration districts to which they belong.

Magdeburg Parish and Civil Registration Jurisdictions. Printed 1992. FHL Book call 943.16/M3 K24h, FHL Film 1183678, item 6.
Listing of streets in Magdeburg and parish and civil jurisdictions to which they belong.

Leipzig Parish and Civil Registration Jurisdictions. Printed 1992. FHL Book call 943.21/L2 K24h, FHL Film 1573202, item 13.
Listing of streets in Leipzig and the parish and civil jurisdictions to which they belong.

Halle Parish Jurisdictions. Printed 1993. FHL Book call 943.18/H2 K2h, FHL Film 1573223, item 3.
Listing of streets and parish listing to which they belong.

Elmore, Faribault county, MN. 1860, 1880, 1900, & 1920 Federal Census returns. Printed 1994. FHL Film 1750770, item 7
Complete census extractions for all Federal censuses for this town.

Postal Address:
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Highland, Utah 84003, USA

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