Germany and German Ancestry

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Comment by Gene Fett on January 15, 2010 at 5:20pm

Researching Fett from Seesbach area in Germany, Schumman from Mecklenberg, Schreiber from Kammin area (now Poland) and Ehlers from Hamburg area.

Comment by Judy Brooks Truchon on January 15, 2010 at 2:59pm

My Wimer/Weimer/Weimar/Weimert family came for Alsace-Lorraine. The town was Langensoultzbach.
langensoultzbach.free.fr/index-us.htm

Comment by Al (alpobc) on January 14, 2010 at 11:47pm

Hi all;
I just signed up for this group. I find searching for groups a little tedious on this ning thing.
I am researching the following names; SENGER / SÄNGER, WENINGER / WENNINGER & FEIST / FIEST. So far they are Germans from Russia (yes, I've joined that group as well :) ). Most of what I've read about the folks of German descent in the Kutschurgan area of modern day Ukraine came from Alsace / Lorraine, but I'm not sure which towns in Alsace / Lorraine. The town in Kutschurgan area is Strassburg.

Al Parsons
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada

Comment by Kathryn M. Lockhard on January 4, 2010 at 5:41pm

I am a decendant of Mathias Eugene Roesch, b. Feb 12, 1812, married Magdalena Jehle. They came to America in 1857 and settled in Potosi Wisconson. I am looking for photos and any further info.

Comment by Randolph J. Spahn on January 2, 2010 at 11:11pm

My Great Grandfather Valentine Spahn and my Great Grandmother Gertrude Rosenburg were both born in Schwarzelbach Germany in 1851. Valentine immigarted in 1880 and Gertrude and 4 daughters came over in 1886. My name is Randolph J. Spahn and I would greatly appreciate and help or information I could get on my family.

Comment by Christine Kay Olsen-Needham on November 29, 2009 at 8:46pm

For Toni Smith: I am a Walters, but don't know where in Germany my family is from, as I have only proven my line back to my gg grandpa born in 1829 in Ohio. But another Walters lady recently contacted me and her Walters family were from England, so perhaps she is related to you? If you would like, I can call her and give her your e-mail address? Let me know. I'd be glad to do it!

Comment by Catherine Davis on November 29, 2009 at 8:04pm

Toni,
For your French relatives--many French bmd records are available free on-line. See http://genealogy.about.com/od/french_records/French_Genealogy_Recor... for a list of what is available. You should be able to work with these websites even if you can't read French. Just know that "recherche" means search, "actes etat civil" are civil registrations, and "registres paroissiaux" are parish registers. It isn't terribly difficult to read French records if you get hold of the LDS Word List for French, which is downloadable from the LDS site, under the dropdown"research, articles." Google Translator and/or a dictionary are helpful too. Just note that the date at the head of a record is the record date, and not necessarily the date of the event--somewhere in the record will be either the actual date or "jour d'hui" for today or "hier" (sometimes "hier d'hui") for yesterday. If you find an index, the date there will be the record date.

For your German ancestors, you can rent microfilms of the town of Aachen church and civil records (civil for the time you indicate above) from any LDS Family History Center. See the library catalog on familysearch.org for film #). Reading German, even with the LDS German word list and a dictionary, is trickier than French because of the Gothic script the Germans used to use. I think you can find charts of the the different scripts online. A German speaker at my local LDS suggested I use a copy of one of these charts as an aid, and also, before I settle in to look for my own ancestors, to look through any records on the microfilm and find names or words I recognize, and then make an alphabetic list and, using the words I recognize, draw how the recorder shaped each letter. I have been able to make out most of the information this way. It is quite time consuming, especially at first, but gets easier with each record.

In both cases, most records within the church or civil parish are in the same format so if you translate one birth, one marriage, and one death record, you pretty much have translated all of them except for the names and dates.

Hope this helps.
Catherine

Comment by Antoinette (Toni) Smith on November 29, 2009 at 4:41pm

My 5 x Grandfather was Carl Godfried WALTHER b. abt 1800 m Elvire TROISTROFF they had 5 children

Emilie Helene b.1827 in Aachen
Johanna Pauline b.1830 in Aachen
Carl Robert b. 1832 in Aachen
Bernard Ferdinand b.1834 in Aachen
Ernest August b. 1836 in Aachen

Bernard Ferdinand married Flore Bathilde Emilie BUJARD m.07 January 1860 in Le Havre, France. They had 1 child,

John WALTHER b 21 June 1868 Le Havre. He married Annie Louise BROOK (nee NAYLOR) m.1897 UK. He left her and setup home with Elizabeth Maud HARDING they had 3 children,

Martha b.1907 Manchester, England
Babette b. 1910 Pontypridd, Wales
Carl Willie b. 1912 Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

Martha m. Cecil James CLARK abt. 1932-6 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, they had 2 sons,

James John b. Sept 1936 MY FATHER
Robin Micheal b. 1939

If anyone could tell me how to find more information on any of these relative that would be great. I'd like to get copy birth certificates of the German relatives but I don't speak any german.

Thank you Toni

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on November 23, 2009 at 1:22pm

I don't know how many of you are researching Prussian roots or subscribe to the Prussia Roots mail list but I received this in my newsletter today and thought it might be of interest to at least some of you:


Hello all,

Over the past week or so I have added almost 10,000 pages of
documentation to ManyRoads on the city and county of (Kreis) Elbing
(Prussia). Included in the "vast" amount of information are many
Adressbuecher? to help trace (find) Elbingers of the past. I have
archived all the Adressbook Issues of which I am aware except one? the
1934 Elbing Adress (Einwohner) Buch. If anyone knows where I can obtain
a copy, or knows of other missing issues that I should add to the
archive here, please let me know.


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Comment by Susan Teresa Holmes on November 17, 2009 at 1:06pm

I was told by my Aunt, Baden, so whats the possibility of that area?

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