Reddit mentions of The Dykemaster (Angel Classics)

Friesian genealogy is its own animal. A part that many non-Friesians struggle with is that from a certain timeframe on the surnames are patronymic.

Some sources that might be useful for you:

• http://meta.genealogy.net/ and https://www.grabsteine-ostfriesland.de/suche.php - the second is a sort-of "find a grave" specifically for East Frisia, only that instead of recording graves they record removed gravestones. In Germany graves are removed after 30 years, we simply don't have the space in the cemeteries to let the graves sit there for all eternity. The scope of the site is very limited, there are only a handful of volunteers working on it, so don't be dissappointed if your ancestors aren't on there.
  
  The first link is the main website and database for genealogy purposes in Germany, all volunteer-driven. Consider uploading your tree to gedbas.genealogy.net in the hope of connecting with others who research the same family.
  
  
• The websites and databases of the Oldenburg Society for Genealogy, see https://www.familienkunde-oldenburg.de/ogf-datenbanken/ and particularily
  http://www.auswanderer-oldenburg.de/
  
  I did a quick search, is this person part of your tree?
  
  http://www.auswanderer-oldenburg.de/getperson.php?personID=I24087&tree=Auswanderer
  
  And this is Hermine Carls nee Tapken: http://www.auswanderer-oldenburg.de/getperson.php?personID=I91851&tree=Auswanderer
  
  Other emigrants from the parish of Bockhorn: http://www.auswanderer-oldenburg.de/showsource.php?sourceID=S746&tree=Auswanderer
  
  
• Above mentioned Oldenburg Society for Genealogy is working on creating a database of one-place studies extracted from the churchbooks. Only members have access. Consider joining and or contacting one of the volunteers working on the area you are interested in.
  
  
• http://www.akvz.de/index.html
  
  It is a website of volunteers who transcribe information of the few surviving census records in Germany and especially Northern Germany along the coast. As a non-member you have to wait 15 seconds before you can start a search, you can see the countdown in the screen. (Datenbank = database) The transcription is not complete and won't be for many years, but records get added frequently, so check back regularily. They also have a forum where you can post and ask whether records exist for the places you are looking at and whether anybody is working on it. (Again, it is all done by volunteers.)
  
  
• Another thing you could do is contact the town archive of Leer, maybe they have records regarding people who emigrated like old passport applications and stuff.
  
  https://www.leer.de/Bildung-Kultur/Kultur/Stadtarchiv
  
  Snail-mail adress
  
  Stadtarchiv
  
  Rathausstraße 1
  
  26789 Leer (Ostfriesland)
  
  Germany
  
  
• A some-what important event you should know about:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Treaty
  
  The construction of Wilhelmshaven led to lots of upheaval in the general area. Farmers who used to live in the area that became Wilhelmshaven moved away, often using the money they got for buying farms within a 30 mile radius. This was a major push factor for emigration from the general area, those who wanted to sell their farms and hop on a ship overseas or move east suddenly had solvent buyers. At the same time the construction site drew a lot of workers from all over Prussia, many of them male and single. The construction site was a bit like a wild-west gold mining town, really rattling things up in this area where things had a habit of changing very slowly.
  
  
• Finally, have you read the literary classic "Der Schimmelreiter" by Theodor Storm?
  
  It is "the" book to read if you are interested in Northern Germany, similarily to reading Gone With the Wind, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as well as Uncle Tom's Hut when you are interested in the Old South of the USA.
  
  There are two translations of this book available in English. I've been told the Denis Jackson translation from 1996 is better, this translation is titled "The Dykemaster".
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Dykemaster-Angel-Classics-Theodor-Storm/dp/0946162549/
  
  But the kindle version of the other translation named "The Rider on the White Horse" is only 2 USD, so if you don't care for a few spelling errors you could get this.
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Rider-White-Horse-Review-Classics/dp/1590173015/
  
  However if you love to read for fun I would recommend picking up this collection of stories by Theodor Storm:
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Rider-White-Horse-Theodor-Storm/dp/1604597410