Letters to der Staats-Anzeiger

Der Staats-Anzeiger was a German language newspaper published in Rugby and later Bismarck, North Dakota, in the early 1900s. Germans from Russia wrote letters to the newspaper as a method of communicating to friends and relatives in South Russia, South America, Canada and the United States. I have been participating in a project by the GRHS to translate and publish those letters on the GRHS website. Joseph Merck wrote a number of letters to the newspaper during the period the family was in Argentina and in the early days after moving to North Dakota. His brothers-in-law (Eberles) were also frequent correspondents from North Dakota and Oregon during that period. Two letters translated this week have been added to the group that are now available at the GRHS website to members of that group.