Charte de soc.genealogy.german

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soc.genealogy.german is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 408:90 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 3 Nov 1994.

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soc.genealogy.german	Family history including a German background.

The charter, culled from the call for votes:

A discussion group to engage in fruitful interchange and information
sharing as such relates to people who are or once thought of themselves
as being of German ethnic stock; who lived or may have lived in Germany,
one of the old German states or any other country in the world - and
their descendants.

In addition, questions of local customs and history, even
regional or national history, which affected the life of these
people and which are difficult to research in the present, are
very proper material for discussion.

Language shall not be restricted to English.  Volunteer translators
will help out as needed.  It is hoped that a rotating committee will
be formed which will handle translation requests by assignment so
the group will not be deluged with many copies of the same translation.

Subjects such as software and other 'generic' genealogy are
best posted to the appropriate group unless the poster is not
proficient in the English language and needs to write in German.

The content of the postings shall be archived and made
'researchable' via FTP-mail or other such means.  The group will
be gated to a mail list (LISTSERV) for genealogists who do not
have access to Usenet.  The gate shall be a two-way path in that
all messages posted on either side shall appear on both sides.