Sunday, January 12, 2025

Building the Purple Triangles Dachau Memorial Database: Progress Update & Tutorial

In our ongoing mission to document and honor those bibleforscher connected to Dachau, we continue to make steady progress. Last week marked an important milestone as we introduced the project and shared a supplemental free-space page, along with an example profile. We successfully completed all profiles for surnames beginning with 'D' last Sunday.

Today, I'll guide you through the process of adding new profiles using the record collection for Dachau on Ancestry.com as our primary source. I'll demonstrate this with a step-by-step example record to help fellow researchers contribute to this important work. We currently have 10 entries pending for surnames beginning with 'E', which we aim to complete today.


One of our key objectives is fostering collaboration across the genealogical community. By sharing our research across different genealogy platforms, we create opportunities for researchers to connect, verify information, and expand our collective knowledge of these historical records.

In the video above you can see the different repositories used for providing source documentation for these profiles and the source citation for each. 

As mentioned during the tutorial, here are links for some recommended Chrome Extensions:

We've now documented 92 individuals out of 435 in the Dachau records collection. Here are today's ten completed profiles:

ForenamesWikiTree
MaxEckert-2220
ValentinEder-474
JosefEdlmann-24
KarlEhrhardt-400
MichaelEhrhart-357
GertrudEichler-466
PaulEisele-438
HermannEmter-12
LudwigEstl-1
BrunoExner-148

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