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Welcome to the HilbigFamily.com Help Page. I will do my best to explain every aspect of each page or group of pages in full. If I missed something or you have a Question you can Email me or post it in Hilbig Hall. You may scroll down the page to find the topic you are looking for or click the a Topic Link in the above Index.

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Here you will find a Family Tree dating back a bit further than 1791 Prussia, Historical photos, a Web Forum (Hilbig Hall) where we can post Births of children, Birthdays, Anniversaries, New jobs or Endeavors of note, anything we desire. With the Forum we will be able to do all of these wonderful things in a Public or Private Family area at each of our own  discretion. Also, My Links links to a bunch of my favorite sites and programs Family News, T.O.C (Table Of Contents), And ELH Photo's.

Family News is simply a place for me to jot down tidbits of upcoming News, Birthdays, and what's new to the site. The occasional link may appear, this would be simply for convenience purposes. This area should be fairly self explanatory. Look for it towards the bottom of the Main Page.

First thing I would like you to do upon visiting the forum "Hilbig Hall" is Register it will be the only way for me to tell that Family members are finding the website and enjoying it.

How to Register: First go to "Hilbig Hall" by clicking the "Family Forum" link on the Main page . Then click on the "Register" link located at the top right of the the page just under the heading "Hilbig Hall A Place Where Family Comes Together".

Once you have clicked the "Register" link you will be sent to the "Hilbig Hall - Registration Agreement Terms" page once read the Terms or don't they are basic CYA Terms. At the bottom of the page you will see three choices Click accordingly.

By clicking Register below you agree to be bound by these conditions.
 

Once you choose the appropriate option discounting the "I do not agree to these terms" you will be sent to the Registration Page. It is big and long but you only need to fill out four of the information blocks:

Items marked with a * are required unless stated otherwise.

Username: *               

E-mail address: *       

Password: *                

Confirm password: *  

These are the only required fields once you have filled those out you simply scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Submit". You will then be sent to a page looking a bit like this:

You can click "Here" highlighted in yellow or "Hilbig Hall Forum Index" also highlighted in yellow. Doing will take you back to the main page of the forum. Now you are Registered and I can see that you are here and enjoying the website. This should take less than two minutes to run through.

Logging In to Hilbig Hall:

Once on the Forum Main page there are two different ways to log in:

1. By Clicking the "Log in" at the top of the page just under the "Register" link. Once you have done this you will be redirected to a "Log in page".

Type the User Name you created when registering and then the Password you created as well. Once you have done this and clicked the Log in Button you will be redirected to the main page and will be signed in as a member.

2. Or by scrolling down to the "Log In Box" at the bottom of the page looks like this:

Type the User Name you created when registering and then the Password you created as well. Once you have done this and clicked the Log in Button you will be redirected to the main page and will be signed in as a member.

How do I know if I am logged in properly?

A few things will change you will be able to see more forum topics but most notably the green "Log in" link at the top of the page will change from "Log in" to "Log out" highlighted in yellow below.

If you have any other questions try the:

(Frequently Asked Questions)

Forum FAQ

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Is a link to my Personal Family Photo Album. My Album is password protected, if you posses the knowledge to crack it good for you and enjoy the photo's. My album is not password protected to keep everyone out I just didn't want to leave it quite as open or accessible. Anyone who would like to view my photo's just email me or post in Hilbig Hall and I will send you the user name & password.

On the Main page of my Album you will see five gallery links on the right "Gallery #1 " thru "Gallery #5". Clicking on these links will take you to one of five different galleries of thumbnail photos; from this point you would simple choose the photo you wish to view and click it. You will again be sent to the photo's web page, these pages have navigation buttons at the top of each page " < Main >" and can be used to navigate from picture to picture or return to the thumbnail gallery to choose another picture. On the left you will see "Family",  "Baptism", "Easter", "Birthday", "Christmas", "Places Visited", "Kids #1" "Kids #2". These are the new format pages explained below. You will also soon see "Party People". Party People will lead to another password protected Photo Album the photo's viewed in this Album could be considered Explicit. Therefore, the are kept out of the view of those who may be offended as well as any children that may just want to view Family Photo's. The Username & Password will be available to most who request it over the age of eighteen, but is mainly intended for Family and Friends within my own peer group..

The reason for the new format is because this is easier to do than the old way and I can put these pictures up at their original file size meaning they are all as printable as the individual photo will get.  You can save the images to floppy or disk and take them to Wal-Mart for example and have them developed. Most will look great at 4x6 or 5x7 any larger you will start to lose picture quality. Although, some won't look as good at 4x6 or 5x7 but a few of the new ones will look better and you should even be able to print them in 8x10 without loosing quality. I am also able to put my entire photo collection up this consists of quite a few pictures (Roughly 2,000 Pictures)  so descriptions will be very slow coming. I am leaving the old format up as well for those of you who may prefer it. However, no more new photo's will be added to the old format. To save photo's first choose the large photo you wish to save then right click it, a menu will appear choose "Save picture as"; save your photo to your hard drive from there you can print it/them yourself or copy it/them to disk and take it/them to be developed. At the bottom of the page on Kids Picture #1 you will find two links "Zari Audio Bites: 1 2", 1 & 2 being separate links they are two different audio tracks of Zari saying cute things at about 18 months old. You can also find an .avi video of Zari blowing out her candles on her 5th B-Day "Zari Blows out Candles 5th B-Day".

On the Historical Photo's links to Historical Photos of the Hilbig Family and other Surnames related to the Hilbig family. These pages are very simply laid out once on the page you can view the different thumbnails and captions (brief descriptions). Simply click the thumbnail to view the enlarged photo. This is an Absolutely wonderful way to get to know your ancestors and get a real feeling for how they must have lived. Also possibly bring back some old memories of times long since past.

Offsite links can be found at the top of the page:

GTHS (German-Texan Heritage Society):

Mormon Genealogy: has some great free downloads and tips for getting started with your genealogy project.

LDS Family Search (Church of Later Day Saints): Search worldwide database of death records.

RHA News (Rockne Historical Association): this place has some great historical information and pictures, you may have to do a little exploring of it to find the really cool stuff. Like our ancestor that was kidnapped by Indians and raised to become an Indian Raider or another that had something to do with The Hole in the wall Gang (Butch & Sundance). Anyways, morale of the story the site is great, but you may have to search and actually read through it a bit... 

RootsWeb: One of the oldest and largest Free Genealogy websites on the internet providing the tools and resources for your genealogy research.

Jaeckle (Jäkle): Contains Photos including the Jaeckle Coat of Arms, A wonderful "Story of the Jäkle" also information on the Engbrock Family a Surname of Jaeckle.

The Strayer's: This is the personal website of my sister Marie A. Hilbig Strayer her and her husband Steve live in Oklahoma; Marie wanted to keep family apprised of her pregnancy and keep in touch with family here in Texas.

Patrick's (Schroeder) Homepage: This is the personal homepage of Patrick Schroeder; here he has established his own Hilbig Family Tree & Photos.

Hilbig's AU (Australia): is a link to an Australian Hilbig's website I found he has a AU Hilbig Family Tree on his site.

Hilbig's CA (Canada): I had received an e-mail from Tom Hilbig of Canada who had taken some information about his family gathered by his father Eric Hilbig (Kinda neat even in the family tree he is the only other Eric Hilbig I have ever heard of..) and put it online he sent me a link explaining it may disappear any day now. So I asked his permission to copy the web page and host it here he agreed and now we have a wonderful story of the Hilbig's journey to Canada and their beginnings there. Thanks Tom

How to Use the Family Tree:

First you click Search HilbigFamily.com or pick your Starting point. Which name would you like to begin with.. This Tree reads both past to present and present to past. Although, getting to the present can be rough or you may have to go through the past to get to the present unless you use the Google search tool. You can use your Back buttons to navigate this Tree or the Name links to go forward and the Son or Daughter Of: links to go in reverse... For instance if you follow Anton to Wilhelm to Bruno you will then have to use your back button or the Son or Daughter Of: links to get back to Wilhelm to view Bruno's brothers and sister's pages. I have also added Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren to the left & right of each page. They are great if you are looking for someone specific but don't use them too much or you'll end up lost. On every page listed (linked) on the Family Tree Main Page you will see a icon "" this icon will lead you back to the Hilbig Family Tree Main Page.

Search HilbigFamily.com will work with the entire public portion of the website, however it's main intent is to be used to quickly find names in our Family Tree.

When you see this icon "@" it is a link for you to email me (it may be a bit smaller or larger it's purpose is the same). The email me icon only appears on pages that ask for your feedback and the Disclaimer page it will not appear on the Web Forum; my email is however available there as well.

The Home icon below will lead you back to the main page. Which main page depends on where you clicked it. If you were looking at a Family members Family Tree page and click it, it would lead you back too the Family Tree main page. If you clicked it on the Family Tree main page it would lead you back to the HilbigFamily.com main page...

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