Template:Did you know nominations/Roger P. Minert


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:48, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Roger P. Minert

 * ... that in the U.S., local church records are more likely than naturalization records to have information about a German immigrant's birthplace, according to research by Roger P. Minert? Source: The familysearch article has a frequency table, along with this explanation: "A striking observation is that “local church vital records” are most likely to tell the hometown. By that phrase, Dr. Minert means items such as burial entries in Lutheran parishes here in the United States. They reveal where the immigrant was born. Naturalization records, which most people think will tell the birthplace, is way down the list. Only 1 out of 10 times will a pre-1900 naturalization record identify an exact overseas origin."
 * ALT1:... that in the U.S., local church records are most likely to have a record of a German immigrant's birthplace, according to research by genealogist Roger P. Minert? Source: same as previous hook
 * ALT2:... that when writing In Harm's Way: East German Latter-day Saints in World War II, Roger P. Minert interviewed over 500 German members of the LDS Church? Source: Contemporary church history quarterly's review: "Out of some thirteen thousand German members in 1939, he obtained interviews with five hundred survivors, who in turn also supplied first-person narratives or written stories of their own lives or those of deceased relatives."
 * Reviewed: Improper Solicitation and Graft Act
 * Comment: I started this page on the 6th, but didn't move it to the mainspace until the 13th.

Created/expanded by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Self-nominated at 21:27, 13 February 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg - Length, Date, Cite, QPQ, and Earwigs check. Mifter (talk) 01:12, 5 March 2017 (UTC)