Bleuel´s Community

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 5. Auflage, 1895:
Bleuel (vom altdeutschen bliuwen, "bleuen, schlagen"), ein hölzerner Schlägel zum Reinigen der Wäsche, zur Bearbeitung des Flachses und Hanfes etc.

In Lexikas neueren Datums findet sich oft nur noch der Begriff der Pleuelstange z.B. dtv-Lexikon 1999: Pleuelstange [zu bleuen "schlagen"]

Meyers encyclopedia, 5th Edition, 1895: Bleuel (of the old-German word bliuwen, "strike"), a wooden schlaegel ("stick, clubs") for cleaning the laundry, for the handling of the flax and hemp etc.

In todays encyclopedias there is often only the term of the Pleuelstange ("connecting rod"). e.g. Dtv-Lexikon 1999: Pleuelstange [to bleuen "strike"]

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• The oldest references I found
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• Christine BLEUEL

BIRTH or DEATH: no reference but
MARRIAGE: 11 NOV 1605, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 
Georg GOERLER 1 MAR 1583/84 - 4 MAY 1643
BIRTH: 1 MAR 1583/84, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 
DEATH: 4 MAY 1643, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 
 
• Anna PLEUL 1629 - 16 FEB 1704/05

BIRTH: 1629, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 
DEATH: 16 FEB 1704/05, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany
MARRIAGE: 27 FEB 1649/50, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 
Illig GOERLER 1625 - 28 MAY 1693
BIRTH: 1625, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 
DEATH: 28 MAY 1693, Weissbach, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany 

BLEUEL, Evelyn R. 1919-1936 (source: Cemetery Records of DuPage Country (IL) http://www.dcgs.org/downers/page17.htm)

1. Bleuel Homepages with Genealogical Information

http://www.bleuel.info
German: Informationen über die Wolfsburger-Sippe

http://www.mickiswelt.de/ahnen/
German: Der Familienname Bleul und Schubert in Sachsen und Schlesien

2. Genealogical Databases

http://www.gendex.com/gendex/
GENDEX WWW Genealogical Index. This server indexes hundreds of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for over twelve million individuals, and gives you the ability to locate and view data of interest to you on any of these databases, without having to go and visit each of the databases separately.

http://www.worldgenweb.org/index.html
The WorldGenWeb Project was created in 1996 by Dale Schneider in an effort to answer the growing needs of genealogists world-wide who were trying to research their ancestors online. Dale's original goal (as is ours today!) was to have every country in the world represented by an online website and hosted by researchers who either live in their own country or who are familiar with their country's resources.

http://www.rootsweb.com
RootsWeb - The oldests & largest free genealogy site - a very good meta-search engine for genealogists.

http://www.genealogytoolbox.com/
Helm's Genealogy Toolbox premiered on the World Wide Web in February 1995 with a mere 134 links. Now, it includes not only the largest categorized list of genealogical links, it has genealogical software profiles, search engines, digitized images, how-to articles, queries, and genealogical news stories

http://www.gencircels.com
The Global Tree project: The Global Tree is an ambitious project to build a searchable database of genealogical data. Our project is different from other "world" tree type web sites because we allow you to interact with your data and with other genealogists in new ways. GenCircles was founded on the principle that community is what makes genealogy work. When you upload your genealogy to GenCircles, users can post messages on the individuals in your file. This offers an unprecedented level of interaction between you, your data, and other genealogists. This interaction leads to better connections, more accurate data, and a tighter-knit "circle" between all genealogists.

http://www.my-ged.com/ 
Dave Wilks free gedcom server

3. Further Databases

http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/ - German Emigrant Database
http://www.familysearch.net/ - Immigrant Database & Meta Search (very good)
http://ancestry.com - Meta Search (very good)
http://www.infobel.com - Worldwide Phonebook
http://www.ussearch.com - Costs Money, but seems to be very good.
http://www.phonebook.com - Link to directorys
http://www.telefonbuch.de - German directory
http://www.dcgs.org/downers/ - Cemetery Records of DuPage Country (IL)

4. Software & Tools

http://www.ahnenblatt.de/
German software for genealogy: Ahnenblatt - ein kostenloses Genealogieprogramm für Windows

http://ges-2000-knoll.de/
German software for genealogy: GES-2000 gehört heute zu den modernsten und leistungsfähigsten Genealogieprogrammen im deutschen Sprachraum. (so der Autor, die Bedienung ist allerdings nicht so toll, dafür der Rest ;-)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Brothers_Keeper 
Brother's Keeper is a Windows genealogy shareware program

http://www.lesandchris.com/ged2www/index.html 
GED2WWW is a free GEDCOM to HTML converter; it takes a genealogy database stored in GEDCOM format and produces a bunch of web pages from it.

5. Other

http://www.ooe.gv.at/geschichte/Landesarchiv/Publikationen/Quellenerlaeuterung/literatur.htm
German enzyclopedias for roots of names:

• Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenlexikon (1967)
• Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Familiennamen (1957) 
• Jakob u. Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch (Nachdruck 1984)