Sometimes turning the page is exactly what research needs. I was at a dead end and didn’t know how to proceed. The famous brick wall. So I took a step back and thought of another way to reach my goal. I took out all the documents again and searched them (offline and online). I came …
During one of my searches I was very lucky that my client was able to provide me with a diary full of travel records. It was a great source of cultural insights of the late 19th century. The person that wrote the diary was wealthy enough to travel to a lot of countries, like Namibia …
Very often the best man is the best friend of the groom and so he is one of the persons that knows him best. I had a case where I had the speech of the best man for the person I was looking for. My client provided me with it and it was such a …
…. ‘and I think he was a member of a German shooting club’… This was a hint from one of my clients that helped me to find evidence of a person and to make sure that I was on the right way. I searched for shooting clubs in the area of the research and I …
For a search for family in Germany, I was given the name and two colour photographs of portraits. That wasn’t much, but I happened to come across a newspaper article and was surprised to see both portraits there, but not in colour. That was the proof that I was on the right track. After some …
Er hörte leise Schritte hinter sich. Das bedeutete nichts Gutes. Wer würde ihm schon folgen, spät in der Nacht und dazu noch in dieser engen Gasse mitten im übel beleumundeten Hafenviertel? Gerade jetzt, wo er das Ding seines Lebens gedreht hatte und mit der Beute verschwinden wollte! Hatte einer seiner zahllosen Kollegen dieselbe Idee gehabt, …
