The best overall solution is to learn German.  Often such a large
    investment offers rich rewards.  You might consider taking courses
    at your local college or Goethe Institute <http://www.goethe.de/>

    In the meantime, you can make use of the German genealogy
    volunteer translation service administered by Arthur Teschler.
    Send e-mail to trans@genealogienetz.de.  The first line of the
    message body should read:
      #GER>ENG (for a German to English translation,)
      #ENG>GER (for an English to German translation, or)
      #S (for a snail mail/fax translation, fee by arrangement).
    The rest of your message should be the text to be translated,
    no more than 40 lines.  For the snail mail/fax service, you mail
    or fax a copy of the original document to the translator, and
    receive a translation by e-mail.  For more information see
      <http://www.genealogy.net/misc/translation.html>
    For larger documents or for guaranteed precision, professional
    translation is recommended.

    Computer translation programs are normally not recommended;
    their clumsy translations usually requires human correction.

    A good German-English dictionary, available in most libraries and
    bookstores, is usually needed for translations.  Sometimes a good
    German dictionary or encyclopedia is a better resource.  There is
    an online German-English dictionary at:
      <http://dictionaries.travlang.com/GermanEnglish/> (US mirror)
      <http://dict.leo.org/> (Europe).

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