Goals of FEEFHS?
Lecture 3 of 4 on FEEFHS

Webmster's Note: This is the the text of the 3rd lecture, given in 4 parts, on 6 June 1999 in the enhanced chat room of the ROOTS genealogy group of AOL by John Movius, FEEFHS Webmaster

• Publish a quarterly Journal dealing with genealogy research developments in Eastern Europe; share information of interest to two or more ethnic or religious groups.
  
  
• Develop data bases of pertinent genealogy organizations and resources. This has been interpreted to mean build, post and maintain
  • FEEFHS Web Portal at http://feefhs.org and
  • FEEFHS Map Room at the URL http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html
  
  
• Create databases of use to our member societies, individual members and for Central and East European record searchers worldwide thru the Internet's World Wide Web.
  
  
• Maintain liaison with Federations, State, Provincial and National societies in the U.S., Canada and overseas that have similar interests.
  
  
• Serve as clearinghouse for information on member societies.
  
  
• Hold conferences for several ethnic groups.
  
  
• Promote public awareness of our member societies and publications and of their many valuable membership services, resources and activities.

• FEEFHS volunteers are
  • creating Findng Aids for FHL microforms (microfilm and fiche) and books:
    
  • serving as email coordinators for most of the 60+ query based "Reseach lists om the web
  
  
• Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes
  • largest German pedigree collection now on about 1,200 microfilms
    
  • volunteers helping to surname index these mictrofilm reels
  
  
• FEEFHS Saxony Court Record Project (FSCRP):
  • over 15,000 microfilm reels
    
  • volunteers are placing Findbuch indexes online
    
  • volunteers are creating lists of surnames in court records
  
  
• San Francisco Call (1869-1906; completed to 1889):
  • replacing vital records lost in the great earthquake/fire of 1906)
    
  • a Jim Faulkinbury, C.G.R.S. project, web coding by FEEFHS
  • several hundred thousand names 1869-1889 now online
  
  
• Foriegn Born Voters of California (completed)
  • a Jim Faulkenbury, C.G.R.S. project
    
  • 68,000 names of Foriegn Born Voters of California in 1872
    
  • 70&% have full naturalization details available.
  
  - Die Vorfahren Pommern Database (yearly additions)
  • largest Pomeranian genealogy database - 118,000 names
    
  • indexing genesalogies in 22 years of Die Pommerschen Leute
    
  • yearly updates since 1996
  
  
• Over 50 specialized surname data bases.
  
  
• Over 242,000 names in our web index - most with references to specific microfilms where you can find surname genealogy.