German Ancestry

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Permalink Reply by Karl-Michael SALA on July 9, 2009 at 9:36pm

I empathize with your desire for tombstones. However, be advised that cemetery records in Germany from even 100 years ago are few & far between. Have you exhausted the parish records for births, confirmations, marriages, deaths, etc.?

We go to Germany for our own & our clients' research, but would certainly not guarantee that we'd find what you seek. More likely would be to find the parish registers either on microfilm or on-site in Germany.

Einöd-Ingweiler
Germany, Bayern, Einöd-Ingweiler

According to Meyers gazetteer, this is the Ingweiler that is associated with Zweibruecken. Certain microfilms are available if more research is needed. Religion?

Germany, Bayern, Einöd-Ingweiler - Church records

Kirchenbuch, 1657-1961 Katholische Kirche Blieskastel (BA. Sankt Ingbert)

Kirchenbuch, 1798-1881 Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Ernstweiler (Bubenhausen, BA. Zweibrücken)

Kirchenbuch, 1907-1955 Evangelische Kirche Einöd (Einöd-Ingweiler)

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Permalink Reply by Catherine Davis on January 17, 2010 at 3:50pm

You probably won't find tombstones for these early dates because Germans re-use cemetery plots, and build new graves on top of older ones.

Permalink Reply by Catherine Vilga Lloyd on January 25, 2010 at 8:13pm

I live in Germany near Stuttgart. Is Ingweiler/Zweibrucken near Kaiserslautern? If so, I'll try to find the cemeteries next time I go up to Ramstein. Can you send info on churches/cemetery locations or anything else to guide me via email - cathy@slovaknation.com
Any other photos you might like from that area, let me know.
Cathy Vilga Lloyd

Permalink Reply by Mitchell Staude on April 11, 2010 at 12:44pm

I think you will be disappointed in your search for tombstones. While there are "Family Plots" in many places, the practice of burials and tombstones is quite different in Germany than it is here. Usually after about 25 years, the grave is reused, bones of the former occupant moved aside to make room for a newer body.

Permalink Reply by Joel Hutto on December 12, 2015 at 4:13pm

In much of Europe they re-use grave sites and will not have ones this old. Many of the members of the protestant reformed and French Reformed church in Ernstweiler had people that were buried in Ingweiler, especially those who lived in Einöd and Ingweiler. 

As for your ancestry, are you sure they were Wery descendants? I have been trying to find a tie between the 2 families and have not had any luck as of yet.There were Wehren/Wern families and there were Wery/Very families, the latter ones arrived in the Zweibrücken area from Courcelles Chaussy, which is in the department of Moselle, Lorraine, France. I have been trying to tie Jacob's brother Johann Peter Wehren to the Werys but have not been able to do so. Once he arrived in SC in 1735 he was known as John Peter Wern. 

Do you have a copy of Jacob's burial record? It is available on microfilm in the Evangelisch (Reformed) Church Records for Ernstweiler.