No 1.  In December 2024, [and not directly connected to the 'Zebra-Project'] the Hahndorf-Archives Web Page was launched on hahndorf.org.au/archives, thanks to Tony Finnis.  The connection I do have with the new Hahndorf Archives is that I have been volunteering there since May 2024 and in that time we completed the transfer of the remainder of the Reg BUTLER archives into their new home. There is also a Facebook page 'Hahndorf Archives' which will keep you updated with the cataloguing progress of [initially] the library collection & then the hundreds of photographs & other archival materials that will be available to view by appointment via '[email protected].'   Address all inquiries to Natasha PAECH who is the Coordinator of the Archives.

No 2.  You will already find here several articles that highlight the life & work of photographer Edmund  DIEDERICH. Currently I am piecing together the story behind the glass plate negatives which were discovered in the ceiling of his Tischer Road home, long after he and his wife had died in 1923 & 1932.  

No 3.  In November I began two separate articles titled 'LIEBELT & ZIMMERMANN' & 'FAEHRMANN O.A.F.'  Both families were farmers between Murray Bridge & Mypolonga & at Caloote and both include photographs of old German homesteads, the LIEBELT one being pug and pine, and the FAEHRMANN one on land held by the family for almost 150 years.  Photographic evidence was found of the 'FAEHRMANN' house in Tangermünde [which they left in 1855] & my 5th cousin in Germany has in December, identified the same house, still standing, in Tangermünde. 

No 4. In 2018 a German memoir written by Gustav LISTEMANN in 1851 was transcribed & translated by Lothar BRASSE.and the only place you will find this published is on this site.  Over the past week of January 2025 I have gone through checking and editing part 1, 2 & 3, making it more readable.   LISTEMANN & his family came to South Australia on the Princess Louise in 1849 and he returned home in 1850, very dissatisfied and determined to tell fellow Germans that it would be a big mistake to come to this Colony.  Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN was on this same ship so it makes an interesting read of their journey from Hamburg to Rio and onto Adelaide.

No 5.  I've received an opportunity to delve deeper into the history of the PAECH farm & barns off Darby Rd through meeting with a descendant of the Paechtown 'Kaysher' PAECH's whose ancestors brought the 'Rentschener' PAECH's farm on Darby Rd.  These articles will grow slowly as photographs & details become available and I am also looking at how all of these PAECH's are or are not related.