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this site, in a easy-to-use format.
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"you" may contribute.
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The main
DVHH index pages
are DVHH at a glance,
Our Heritage,
Finding Aids and
Donauschwaben
Network, and Donauschwaben Settlement regions are listed on
every DVHH webpage.
The
geographic areas where the Donauschwaben
settled are
Banat,
Batschka,
Hungarian Highlands,
Sathmar,
Syrmia
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Slavonia, and
Swabian Turkey, and are found
on every DVHH webpage. Each section will
provide you with specific data for that
region and is updated periodically.
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T erminologies
&
Initialism
found at this site:
DVHH: Donauschwaben Villages
Helping Hands
DS:
Donauschwaben / Danube Swabian
Finding
Aids: are descriptive tools which serve
as the primary point of access to
archival collections in archives and
manuscript repositories. Archival
collections consist of materials formed
around a person, family, organization,
or subject. They may contain a wide
variety of items such as manuscripts,
diaries, legal papers, correspondence,
memorabilia, photographs, films, tapes,
computer files, maps, drawings,
pamphlets, and other forms of material.
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