tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post7852028193973368529..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Dear Randy - How Do I Research My German Ancestors?Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-34511953433033352142013-05-23T04:41:30.290-07:002013-05-23T04:41:30.290-07:00I don't know what happened to the links, so I ...I don't know what happened to the links, so I will try again.<br /><br />http://www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html<br /><br /><br />And<br /><br />http://www.geneanet.org<br />Bobbinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-37039414965890701622013-05-23T04:38:34.711-07:002013-05-23T04:38:34.711-07:00I have found good connections on
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There are...I have found good connections on <br /><br />And <br /><br />There are a number of German genealogy groups in the US, that may be of some help.Bobbinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-64628351580142730982013-05-22T17:54:41.574-07:002013-05-22T17:54:41.574-07:00I got quite a ways searching through ancestry unti...I got quite a ways searching through ancestry until I got stopped with the language and lack of knowledge about geography. Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13256855136448978468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-36732262494178757832013-05-22T17:24:23.955-07:002013-05-22T17:24:23.955-07:00If one lives in San Diego County, the San Diego Ge...If one lives in San Diego County, the San Diego Genealogy Society has a German interest group that meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month, 1:00 at the Family History Center in Mission Valley. Next meeting is June 19. Also Ancestry.com just posted a new video on YouTube about German research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-89346145466140188952013-05-22T09:37:43.174-07:002013-05-22T09:37:43.174-07:00I just want to point out one of the FamilySearch i...I just want to point out one of the FamilySearch instructional videos (Randy's list #2). On the second page of that link is a couple of excellent courses in German handwriting. It really helped me with some Bible records figuring out person's names, dates, places, and terms (marriage, etc).Jeff Hodgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-26419377733982710762013-05-22T08:36:46.661-07:002013-05-22T08:36:46.661-07:00Great suggestions. I would like to suggest two ad...Great suggestions. I would like to suggest two additional basic sources - 1) Google "Genealogy Research Germany (or any other country) and 2) review what is on Cyndislist. Both of these give good starting places in addition to what you gave.Gary Fredericksenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15544449536555930151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-24421197836900382742013-05-22T07:26:27.879-07:002013-05-22T07:26:27.879-07:00Randy-
What year is the Map of the German States ...Randy-<br /><br />What year is the Map of the German States from????<br /><br />Thanks, BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-25791737443615282522013-05-21T17:33:01.089-07:002013-05-21T17:33:01.089-07:00Randy,
I would also suggest the metasearch site
h...Randy,<br /><br />I would also suggest the metasearch site<br />http://meta.genealogy.net/ to get 10 different databases at once, including, among other things, Ortsfamilienbücher (local heritage books, submitted family research, and directories (Adressbücher). This is the metasearch site for the GenWiki that bwiehle mentions, kind of a one-stop shopping site. This is available in both German and English.<br /><br />Ernie Thode<br /><br />Erniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17858627113011941412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-79526270776446257962013-05-21T16:57:47.607-07:002013-05-21T16:57:47.607-07:00Your correspondent has 3 major advantages: he know...Your correspondent has 3 major advantages: he knows the language (which helps immensely with older texts and handwriting), he has lived and was schooled in Germany (will be familiar with German geography, history and civil procedures), and he is now in the US (some record-access restrictions in Germany are not applied when looking at the same records in the USA, esp. FamilySearch microfilms).<br />Hopefully he has contacts and will find someone with knowledge of his family's origins a couple of generations back. Without a starting place, finding records will be like looking for the proverbial needle. There have been MAJOR population movements in the last 150 years that complicate people's origins in Germany - from the late industrial revolution to the two World Wars to the end of the Iron Curtain and more recent times. Assuming from his query for German ancestors that his family is not Polish, Russian, Turkish, etc. within recent memory (or obvious surname), they might still have been displaced from some other region in Europe.<br />Most of the resources you mentioned will be helpful to orient a beginner genealogist. Once past that point, they focus on English-speaking, usually US, descendants of the German immigrants. Even in Christa Cowan's talk on German research last week, the focus was on searching all the US records first - censuses, then naturalizations, then passenger lists, and finally in Germany itself, maybe. Not helpful to Dieter, the new immigrant himself.<br />Correction to your point 3): It should not be necessary to subscribe to the World Deluxe subscription at Ancestry.com if only German records are needed - subscribe at the German site, Ancestry.de<br />A MAJOR German website that was omitted from your blog post, is GenWiki [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hauptseite], which has its own mailing lists, family trees (Ortsfamilienbücher & Gedbas), links to regional genealogical societies and many, many other resources. Many of the sub-domains have multiple language options.bgwiehlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00904956507742860598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-19522407543149336152013-05-21T16:42:54.960-07:002013-05-21T16:42:54.960-07:00Randy,
You gave very good advise to Dieter. I am ...Randy,<br />You gave very good advise to Dieter. I am in the same boat, but I am from France with NO one on this side of the pond either. My family doesn't really want to cooperate, so I had to fend for myself. I have found lots of leads on Geneanet (great suggestion), I have searched for blogs like yours in French for tips and tricks on how to research in France over the internet, I have gone to each of the "departements" official sites where I know I have ancestors and searched in their on line records (I am sure the Lander in Germany has some too), I have a world subscription at Ancestry.com which was very disappointing (over $300 for a total of 25 documents with no hope of finding more), I have paid for a membership in the genealogical society of the department where I have the most ancestors and plan on doing it again in another where I have found some leads (advise I got from numerous American genealogy blogs). And I have downloaded loads of great French Google books for FREE to improve my knowledge of my country's history to allow me to place my folks in the proper context. I am learning so much about the past, if not so much about my family, but this makes me happy anyway and it certainly gives a workout to my brain.<br />Thanks Randy for all the useful information and interesting posts you write. <br />Viel Gluck zum Dieter!!!<br />AnnickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com