Germany and German Ancestry

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Comment by Marianne Szabo on March 20, 2012 at 10:16am

Check out these handwriting helps from Family Search:

https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/german-script-tu...

https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-h...

https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-h...

https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-h...

I've found them to be very helpful in reading these records myself.  Marianne

Comment by Kim Kevin Callahan on March 20, 2012 at 10:06am

Requesting some assistance on translation.  I have five German Passports from what appears to be 1887 all in the "Hoschler" family.  Each one has three hand written pages for entries.  Then there are the usual printed passages; "Reise-Pass" etc...  I don't speak German, but if it were possible for anyone that does, I could scan these documents and send them to the interested party for translation.  I have an German-English Dictionary, but I'm still not certain about some words.  I want it to be accurate.  Would appreciate any response.  Thanks.

Kim Callahan

Comment by Laressa Northrup on March 16, 2012 at 7:29am

Attn:  Tina Delaney Hogan

I have a Rhoads family as well, however mine came much earlier.  You might want to check the last name Roth  in Germany as that is how mine was spelled in Germany. Roth is pronounced Rodt and can be very well spelled by English speakers as the variations you gave.

Comment by Ellen Healy on March 12, 2012 at 6:22pm

Bob, is that the book on sale today from Genealogical Publishing? I was looking at that.

Comment by Shelley E Stoye on March 12, 2012 at 4:57pm

My ancesters were descended from Johann Conrad Lechleitner who emigrated to Frederick, Maryland eventually changed the spelling of the name to Leckliter. They migrated through the midwest and ended up in Montana, Washington, and California.

Comment by Marianne Szabo on March 12, 2012 at 7:51am

Sherry - this link shows results for a search on FamilySearch.org for your grandfather's full name plus the names of his parents.  If you know if they were Protestant or Catholic you can eliminate some of the records.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/records/index#count=20&quer...

Going down the list, this might be your grandfather.  Johann was a "Christian name" that German put first in a child's name, followed by the name by which they actually were called.  The full name of this person would be Johann Christian Fredrich Heinrich Nagel.

Groom's Name:	Johann Chr. Fr. Heinrich Nagel
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name:	Johanne Elisabeth Christiane Therese Pursch
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date:	03 May 1868
Marriage Place:	Evangelisch, Grafenroda, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, Thuringia
Groom's Father's Name:	Ernst Nagel
Groom's Mother's Name:
Bride's Father's Name:	Johann Nicolaus Fr. Pursch

Comment by Sherry Nagel Thompson on March 11, 2012 at 6:49pm

I am looking for where my grandfather came from in Germany. I have the passinger list he is on, his naturlation papers, a MO birth cert. after he moved here, and marriage and death certs. None of them show place of birth as anything but Germany. His father died in Germany and his brother, Wm and 3 of his sisters came over in 1880 and he and his mother and 3 sisters came over in 1884. His name was Heinrich Frederich Wilhelm Nagel, (Henry W. Nagel). His father was Ernst (no other information) His mother was Elizabeth. They all settled in Washington county, IL in the Okawvill area. His sisters married Wernecke, Lehde, Jollenbech, and others. Also related to the Frederking family.

Comment by Tina Delaney Hogan on March 8, 2012 at 6:30pm

Researching surname Rhodes/Rodes/Rhoads. John Rhodes supposedly born in Stuttgart Germany around 1815. Although some of the Ancestry.com posts say he was born around 1798. John lived in Mississippi and Arkansas and Tennessee. He was married to Mary Amanda or Elizabeth Pierce/Pearce/Piercy. Thanks in advance. Tina

Comment by Catherine Davis on February 10, 2012 at 8:30pm

Bob, can you get to the front pages of the book?  There might be explanations of abbreviations before the text begins.  I would guess the numbers under source refer to a list that should also be in the book somewhere that will tell you where the data came from.  This looks like an index and since the words are all in English, I would guess it is a translation.

Comment by Bob Mooney-Pa on February 10, 2012 at 6:58pm

This is from an emigration book for Germans from Baden. What does the Prof Source mean? Plus what does the "A" mean.?

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