THE SGGS GERMAN CARD

Latest Update: 14 June 2000

The German Card, exclusively available from the Sacramento German Genealogy Society, is a handy new German research aid used to simplify German research in libraries and archives. It is a best seller around America since its introduction in the spring of 1995. It is intended to be carried in the German researcher's wallet at all times.

The SGGS German Card is a four-panel card, hinged and laminated, that folds up to the size of a credit card. Around the outside edges of the panels are the old script and Fraktur alphabets, showing both upper and lower case, arranged so that you can hold each letter directly under the German word you are trying to decipher.

In all, the German Card includes:

 


TO ORDER THE GERMAN CARD


The German Card is easy to order from the United States, Canada or overseas. You don't even need an order form. Just send

From a U.S. address:
1) a check for US$3.00, PAYABLE TO "SGGS,"
2) a stamped self-addressed business size envelope (SASE), and
3) your name and address (if your name and address are printed on your check, just write "German Card" on the memo line of your check and you won't need to include a note giving your name and address)

When ordering two or three cards from a U.S. address, please affix 55 cents in postage to your SASE.

From a Canadian or overseas address:: Please enclose a large self addressed envelope (SAE) and two International Postal Reply Coupons (IRC's) for the first card and one additional IRC for every additional set of two cards ordered.
Please send your SASE with a check (or an SAE and IRC's with payment in $US funds) to:

SGGS German Card
PO Box 660061
Sacramento, CA 95866-0061

Please don't forget: Keep the German Card in your wallet at all times!