JGSGB German SIG German Interest Records What's New?

JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020

JGSGB German SIG German Interest Records What’s new?

Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 7 June 2020

7 New books here since we last met in March 2020

Manchester Post WW2 Jews and Other Foreigners Bill Williams Aumie and Michael East End London The Jewish East End Memories Shapiro Han-Werner Dirks and Minden NRW Spuren Juedischen Lebens in Minden Kristan Kossak Spuren Juedischen Lebens in Aachen von Aachen 1850 bis 1938 Bettina Klein Holocaust To Meet in Hell Bernice Lerner Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in der Ost- Eifel. Das Familienbuch der Juden in Ost-Eifel Mayen Mayen bis um 1875 Klaus H S Schulte Holocaust Bergen-Belsen To Meet in Hell Bernice Lerner

Plus another couple of volumes of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. I’m now missing only 1 volume to have the full set!

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Address Book for Teltow nr Brandenburg 1927 on Ancestry & https://db-brandenburg.de/?page_id=806&idort=3875

Address Books for Duesseldorf & Eisenach

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/D%C3%BCsseldorf/ Adressb%C3%BCcher_in_der_UuLB_ D%C3%BCsseldorf

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Eisenach/Adressbu ch_1900

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More Address Book News!

• Adressbuch Kreis Diepholz 1901 (Saxony)

• Adreßbuch und Geschäfts-Handbuch für die Stadt und Kreis Eckernförde 1910 Schleswig-Holstein

https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de

digiPress - Das Zeitungsportal der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek • The newspaper portal provides access to digitized historical newspapers from the Bavarian State Library.

• This is great because we never see many resources for Bavaria!

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www.bavarikon.de/?lang=en

Koblenz Archive Blog https://stadtarchivkoblenz.wordpress.com • Especially good for German speakers! • Searchable section on Jewish History • Good links to further useful sources of info • E.g. online memorial books to Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein: • www.steinheim- institut.de/wiki/index.php/Memorb%C3%BCcher

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www.steinheim-institut.de

• Forschung (Research) • Media • Jüdische Friedhöfe / Epigrafik • Epidat - 34.644 Gravestone • Memorbücher photos (66.168 digital images) • Digital_Humanities • Mobil • Posener Heimat • Online-Ressourcen (journals & books) • Jüdische Wohlfahrt • Publikationen

www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de Bremen Emigration Database

The German Emigrants Database at the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven is a research project concerned with European emigration to the United States of America. The database comprises information on emigrants who left Europe for the United States of America between 1820 and 1897, 1904 and 1907 primarily from German ports.

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New Databases on Ancestry.com (not on .co.uk) • Europe Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees 1939 to 1947 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61758 – from Arolsen Archive • Jewish Records – Holocaust www.ancestry.com/search/categories/jewishholocaust • Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime, 1935-1944 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2027 • Poland, German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp, 1940-1945 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6217 • Italy, German Jews Deported to Auschwitz, 1943-1944 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60815

More Holocaust Records on Ancestry

• Munich, Germany, Nazi Documentation Regarding Jews, 1919-1946 (USHMM) - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3651 • Munich, Germany, Displaced Jewish Children at the Ulm Children's Home, 1945-1948 (USHMM) - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2431 • Munich, Vienna and Barcelona Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959 (JDC) - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1354 • Jewish Holocaust Survivor List from the files of World Jewish Congress, 1918-1982 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1385 • German Concentration Camp Records, 1946-1958 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61764

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Die Maus – Bremen Genealogical Society https://die-maus-bremen.info • Jüdische Familien im Bremer Raum • The database contains persons of Jewish faith and their descendants who lived in the area of today's city of Bremen and in the mostly rural communities of the Stade rabbinate. This area includes the Elbe- Weser triangle and is bordered in the south by the municipalities of Bremen, Verden and Rotenburg an der Wümme. • For further information that is outside the processing area set here, the database mentioned may be consulted here: • www.online-ofb.de/juden_nw/index.php • Or contact [email protected]

Frankfurt am Main Records • www.lagis-hessen.de

• ex. Hadis now Archinsis • Hessian Regional History Information System

• www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/216113 • Civil Records online but not indexed yet!

• Darmstadt • Marburg • Wiesbaden

• No central place for all of the records!

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Germany Military Killed in Action 1939-1948 www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61641

• http://des.genealogy.net /eingabe- verlustlisten/search?lang =en • WW1 - Verlustlisten Erster Weltkrieg

New Berlin Records Ancestry 03/2020

• www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5753 • Births 1874-1906

• www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2957 • Marriages 1874-1920

• www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2958 • Deaths 1874-1920

• www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60778 • Address Books 1815-1974

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NRW Newspapers Portal - https://zeitpunkt.nrw

• Discover historical newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia! • Funded by the federal state of North Rhine Westphalia, this project aims at digitizing local newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia from the period of 1801-1945. • This portal presents the digitized newspapers for a broad public and will be expanded continuously.

Hispanic Digital Library http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/index.vm (has German papers too!)

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German Archives Portal - www.archivportal-d.de

• 22622 Standesaemt – yes really!

Search • By State • By type of archive • By place name (A-Z)

Polish Archives – what’s new https://allenstein.vffow.de/neues.php • As of 06.06.2020: 58993 • Verein für Familienforschung in documents with 2927269 Ost-und Westpreußen e.V. digitized documents from • https://allenstein.vffow.de 25.04.2020

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Arolsen Archive https://arolsen-archives.org

Arolsen ctd. https://arolsen-archives.org

• Free to search • Please apply by email if you don’t discover anything online. • UK copy @ Wiener Holocaust Library • Israeli copy @ Yad Vashem • US copy @ USHMM, in DC. • Online digitisation of Arolsen records is now complete according to WDYTYA mag current issue July 2020. • https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/interactive- archive/everynamecounts • Appeal for people to take part in the online crowdsourcing project “Every Name Counts” where volunteers enter names found on documents into the online archive to ensure that they will never be forgotten.

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Top 10 Dutch Genealogy Websites by Yvette Hoitink

• Open Archives • Nationaal Archief This website publishes genealogical records from the This National Archives website has their finding aids archives in the Netherlands, often with scans or links to the and genealogical indexes, including emigrants to Australia original records. and freed slaves in the West Indies. • Archieven.nl • Delpher Website where many archives publish their finding aids and This website by the Royal Library contains searchable genealogical indexes. newspapers, journals, magazines, books, and other publications from many heritage collections. • WieWasWie Many archives publish their genealogical records on • Family name database WieWasWie. Advanced search functions require a This database shows the occurrence of Dutch family names subscription. based on the 1947 (most recent) census. Fill in a naam (name) and click the Zoek (search) button. A list of names • FamilySearch will appear. Select ‘kaartweergave’ (map display) to see the International website that contains many Dutch sources. geographical spread. The linked page leads to a search page to search the indexed records. Also check the Catalog for the place name • GenealogieOnline for unindexed records. Website where many Dutch people publish their online trees. • Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium This portal provides links to records that are available • Dutch Genealogy Facebook group online. These can range from name indexes and Facebook group dedicated to Dutch Genealogy. This is a transcriptions to digitized original records. very friendly community where people help each other solve brick walls.

City of Rotterdam Archives Posts Passenger Lists of Holland America Line 1900-1920 • Lots of people left German via NL • Put the passenger’s name you are • Searches can be done by last name, searching for into the search field: name of the ship, departure port or • https://stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/zoek departure date. You can search via the -en-ontdek/passagierslijsten/zoeken- search field 'all fields' if you are not op-passagiers/ searching by name or period. • • • These lists are also available free on • The City of Rotterdam Archives has FamilySearch 1900-1974 and may be made the passenger lists of available on some of the subscription the Holland-America Line (1900- services. www.familysearch.org/wiki/ 1920) available. This is for people who en/Netherlands_Passenger_Lists_Holl booked passage on this line going to and-America_Line_- the United States or Canada _FamilySearch_Historical_Records

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NL Alien Cards: www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief/nieuws/vreemdelingenkaarten • Amsterdam City Archives is digitizing and making searchable online the quarter of a million Alien cards from their Police Archives • The Aliens Cards kept track of everyone who came to Amsterdam including refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they are an important source of information about WW2 and Jewish refugees from Germany. • An estimated 200,000 people are registered on the Foreigner Cards, this is not only refugees, but also other migrants. • The cards tell about the origin and circumstances of the subject of each card. • The cards also cover the years 1920-1971 and special permission had to be obtained because of the recent dates of these records • Step 1 is the digitisation of the cards then they will be made digitally searchable, using OCR.

Netherlands Quick tip – By Yvette Hoitink

• When civil registration records are created, two original copies are made. They are duplicate originals and both have the same legal standing. • One is kept at the local level, and can now often be found in municipal or regional archives. The other is kept at the provincial level, originally in court houses but now in the archives in the provincial capital. • It is worthwhile to check both archives for the records: • One archive may have indexed the records while the other did not • One archive may have scanned the records while the other did not • One may have scanned them from black/white microfilm while the other scanned in full-colour • One may have scanned more recent records than the other, for example if one archive scans all the records as they become public while the other only scans in ten-year blocks.

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REISSUED BOOK “JEWS OF LEEUWARDEN” JODEN VAN LEEUWARDEN by Hartog Beem (1974) • Best of over 350 publications about Jewish communities in “the Mediene” (The Netherlands outside Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht), about the Yiddish language and influences from Yiddish on the Dutch language and other Jewish cultural aspects. EUR27.95. • www.vangorcum.nl/cultuur-historie/100-344_Joden- van-Leeuwarden

FRIESLAND JEWRY

• New database on Friesland Jewry on http://dutchjewry.org • Circumcisions in Friesland 1697-1947. • Jewish marriages in and related to Friesland before 1815. • Jewish tombstones in Friesland until 1970 and those deceased without a tombstone in Leeuwarden, Harlingen and Dokkum. • Jews in Friesland 1808-1813 • The circumcisions in the registry of Oldemarkt and Zwartsluis in Overijssel province and of Meppel in Drenthe province have been added too on this site, some Jews came to Friesland from there.

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www.oorlogslevens.nl

• War Lives is a new website to document the lives of people in World War 2. The information is shown as a timeline that combines records from different archives and other organizations. • War Lives is a starting point for historical research on people during World War II and refers to the sources that the information is based on. • New sources are continually being added to the portal, and over time there will also be more sources concerning people who survived the war. • To keep up-to-date, you can check the news page of this site regularly and register on the homepage for the Dutch Network of War Collections newsletter (in Dutch).

Hamburg Resources • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M- k016X4ovqX9mvO_nexLaMjXG3hvECgn-s661KU4RM • 3 page downloadable listing by Michael D Moritz of NY.

• Facebook - Hamburg Jewish Ancestors / Jüdische Vorfahren aus Hamburg: • www.facebook.com/groups/hamburgjewishancestors

• Hamburg Online Queries Emigration https://recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg.de/ScopeQuery5.2/detail.aspx?ID= 814282

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2021 Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland –

• Diverse program of culture and society on the history and current life of Jews in Germany • Jews have lived in what is now Germany for 1700 years • Plan to send a visible and effective signal against anti-Semitic and xenophobic positions together with many institutions, organizations and campaigns that reach metropolises as well as rural regions. • Project funding is available in various cultural areas: fine arts, theatre, dance, music, film, literature and regional studies as well as projects in museums and in archive and monument conservation. In addition to museums and cultural associations • Jewish communities and cultural associations in Germany have been invited to participate.

Amtsblätter der preußischen Bezirksregierungen https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Amtsbl%C3%A4tter_ der_preu%C3%9Fischen_Bezirksregierungen

Aachen Gumbinnen Liegnitz Posen Arnsberg Hannover Magdeburg Potsdam und Berlin Kassel Marienwerder Berlin Breslau Kleve Merseburg Reichenbach Bromberg Koblenz Minden Schleswig Danzig Köln Münster Schneidemühl Düsseldorf Königsberg Oppeln Sigmaringen Erfurt Köslin Osnabrück Stettin Frankfurt an der Kurmark Pommern Stralsund Oder Trier Wiesbaden

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Amtsblatt Muenster 1816-1950

• https://sammlungen.ulb.uni- muenster.de/hd/periodical/titlei nfo/1055728

• Lots of very local official information about your ancestors, you can search by name if they have been OCR’d properly!

Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836 to 1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Seemann Henschel on 1 July 2019 • Language: English • ISBN-13: 978-3894878061 • Uwe Westphal is an author residing in Berlin and London. He has worked for PEN and as a journalist and producer for PBS and CBS in New York. The art historian has spent decades researching the subject of this book, gathering information from around the world, both in archives and in personal conversations with witnesses of the time.

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The Clothes on Our Backs How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade • Author Anna Nyburg • Hardback (17 Feb 2020) • English language • Hardcover: 280 pages • Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (17 Feb. 2020) • Language: English • ISBN-13: 978-1912676255

Austria - Vienna Records

• Registers of births, marriages, deaths, • www.genteam.eu and some burials for the Jewish • Recht als Unrecht – New Database of Community of Vienna 1784 to1911 Property registrations in Vienna from • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien 1938 to 1945 - Created due to • www.familysearch.org/search/collectio inconsistencies in n/2028320 Vermögensverkehrsstelle (Assets Transfer Office) records. Hofrat Dr. Hubert Steiner created this database • Austria-Czech Sig on Jewish Gen and made it available to GenTeam. • www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/ausgu • GenTeam has amazing resources for ide.htm Jewish genealogy in Austria.

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German speaking inhabitants of the Czech lands

• http://czechgenealogy.nase- koreny.cz/2020/04/german-speaking- inhabitants-of-czech.html • Map of the percentages of native German speaking inhabitants in the court districts of the Czech lands before WW2. • Map shows the density of the German speaking population in the border area - Czechoslovakia was forced to give up to Germany in the Munich agreement of 1938. • You can see the language islands around Jihlava or in Hřebeč area. And also in Brno where there was a really strong German population. • German speaking people started to come to the Czech lands during C12th and C13th.

https://martin-opitz-bibliothek.de • Special library for German culture and history in Eastern Europe • The collection areas of the Martin Opitz Bibliothek (MOB) covers the entire area of Eastern Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. • Collections focus on the regions in what is now western Poland, historic East Germany. • MOB houses the library of the AGoFF (working group of East German family researchers), the archive of the historical association Wolhynien and the archive of the association for German cultural relations abroad (VDA). • It supports the association Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe by delivering digitized rare periodicals from the MOB.

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The Posen Library - www.posenlibrary.com

• The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is a vibrant, growing collection curated by leading Jewish Studies scholars which offers unprecedented direct access to excerpts from thousands of primary sources reflecting Jewish creativity, diversity, and culture world-wide, and will span biblical times to the 21st century when complete.

NRW Emigration Records

• From the emigration files of the administrative districts of Cologne Düsseldorf and Aachen • The Landesarchiv Duisburg has a good 63,000 names of emigrants for the period from 1814 to 1939 • this list is definitely not exhaustive. • To download the (Excel) list: • www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/rheinland/BilderKartenLogosDa teien/Kopie_von_211_22_01_Auswanderer_aus_dem_Rheinland__1 9_Jahrhundert__mit_externen_Korrekturen_2016_08_11.xls

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Pomerania • https://kpbc.ukw.edu.pl/dlibra/plain- content?id=75022 • General-Adressbuch der Ritterguts- und Gutsbesitzer im Deutschen Reiche […]” 1879; Lieferung für die Provinz Pommern Darin Angabe “der Besitzungen, ihrer Grösse, ihres Grundsteuer-Reinertrages, ihrer Pächter, Industriezweige und Poststationen” • Address Book for Pomerania in 1879

Free Book Online - Kassel

• Namen und Schicksale der Juden Kassels 1933 - 1945 • https://kobra.uni- kassel.de/bitstream/handle/123 456789/2013121644679/Schicks aleDerJudenKassels.pdf • 248 page pdf book

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German Citizenship under Article 116 – Exclusions Group

• www.article116exclusionsgroup.org

• “Former German citizens who between 30 January 1933 and 8 May 1945 were deprived of their German citizenship on political, racial, or religious grounds, and their descendants, shall on application have their citizenship restored. They shall be deemed never to have been deprived of their citizenship if they have become residents of Germany after 8 May and not expressed a contrary will.” – Article 116 (II), German Basic Law (Grundgesetz).

• WHO WE ARE… • Article 116 Exclusions Group represents Germans - predominantly but not exclusively of Jewish heritage - and their descendants, who have unsuccessfully applied for re-naturalisation under Article 116, paragraph 2 of German Basic Law or have been informed that they are not eligible to do so.

NRW

www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/ ostwestfalen_lippe/BilderKartenLogos Dateien/Dateien/LAV-Brosch- Genealogie2015.pdf

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NRW –Records - more info (mainly death records) • http://historischesarchivkoeln.de/lav/index.php • Civil Records for Koeln – free to use & download (not just death records!)

• www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/ostwestfalen_lippe/service_familienforschung/index.php • Death Records at Detmold for Westfalen/Lippe areas Free to use/download

• www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/rheinland/bestaende_duesseldorf/index.php • Duisburg archive – Death records online for Koeln and Duesseldorf areas free to use/download – see PA3103

• www.familienbuch-euregio.de -Familienbuch Euregio-Historic Lists- then look at the bottom of the section – finding aid to all online death records • Horst Janssen‘s spreadsheet – guide to the death record - www.dropbox.com/s/td5fmf7vtm8cfbl/LVR_LINKS.xlsx?dl=0

My Heritage New NRW Death records Collection

• MyHeritage announced an exclusive historical records collection from Germany, the North Rhine Westphalia Death Index 1870-1940. • The collection includes 2,450,551 records along with scanned images of the original documents. • The images have been fully indexed by MyHeritage for the first time, making the information more accessible and readily • Search is free searchable than ever before. • Viewing & downloading • These records are available only on MyHeritage, and are an invaluable resource requires a subscription for anyone researching their German roots.

NRW – Detmold Archive (Westfalen-Lippe) • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Juden-_und_Dissidentenregister_in_Westfalen_und_Lippe • JUWEL http://des.genealogy.net/juwel/search/index (1801) 1808–1874 Jewish Records

• P2 Detmold ) • P5 Arnsberg )– All searchable and downloadable • P8 Munster )

• This project is now complete!

More records soon... • Indexing of the civil registry in the Dortmund City Archives: For some years now, a small group of the Roland zu Dortmund genealogical and heraldic working group has been indexing the civil registry records in the Dortmund City Archives. • A hard-working former member of Roland zu Dortmund (Dortmund gen. Soc.) has indexed local records from Witten, Annen, Rüdinghausen and Herdecke. We are happy to provide information from his lists with permission:

Civil Records 1808 to 10/1814 in NW Germany

• During the Napoleonic annexation of the northwest German areas between Münster and Hamburg, civil BMD registers were introduced, as in the Rhineland. • These state-ordered certificates for births, marriages and deaths often contain very detailed information.

• You can get an overview of the civil registers holdings in the other North German archives at the State Archives in Hamburg and Bremen as well as in the individual departments of the Lower Saxony State Archives. • In some areas (e.g. Bremen and Lübeck), the civil status registers continued even after the French left until the civil status register was introduced in 1875.

Other things - complete books online and free!

• 72 page guide to sources in Rhein Erft Kreis • www.huerth.de/medien/bindata/publikationen/fundgruben_archive_im_rhein- erft_kreis.pdf • Bedburg, Bergheim, Bruehl, Dueren, Elsdorf

• 47 Page Bibliography on Jewish history and culture in the Rhein-Sieg district • www.researchgate.net/publication/33027124_Bibliographie_zur_judischen_Geschichte_ und_Kultur_im_Rhein-Sieg-Kreis

• 177 Page book by Klaus H S Schulte – Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in der Ost-Eifel : das. Familienbuch der Juden in Mayen bis um 1875; eine Dokumentation • www.gavmayen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/4- Verlag/GlzHk/GrdlzHK_07_Schulte_Zeugnisse.pdf

Düsseldorf Records now coming online! www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/service/ahnen/personenstandsregister.html Standesamt Geburten Heiraten Sterben

Düsseldorf-Mitte (später Düsseldorf-I) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 -1989

Düsseldorf-Nord 1904 -1909 1904 -1939 1904 -1973

Düsseldorf-Ost 1908 -1909 1908 -1939 1908 –1973

Düsseldorf-Oberkassel (Heerdt) 1798 -1909 1798 -1939 1798 –1969

Düsseldorf-Gerresheim (Stadt/Land/Ludenberg) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 –1969

Düsseldorf-Eller 1862 -1909 1862 -1939 1862 –1969

Düsseldorf-Benrath (ab 1974 Düsseldorf-II) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 –1981

Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth (Stadt/Land) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 –1968

Düsseldorf-Rath 1899 -1909 1899 -1939 1899 -1969

• The registers were digitized for conservation and can be viewed in the reading room at the city archives. • Advance booking is required. • Use is free but printouts, copies, scans or research by the archivists is chargeable

Learn about Ancestry in German on Zoom

• 16 June 2020 8pm London time • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84110033022?pwd=MHhoSjVXdVZnNzlY bXB2ankyOG9ZUT09 Meeting-ID: 841 1003 3022 Password: 907055

• Ahnenforscher Stammtisch Unna Online Spezial: DER ANCESTRY-ONLINEABEND!

Records on Ancestry for Troisdorf, NRW

• The city archive of Troisdorf reported the most recent access to the fee-based Ancestry portal for the civil and civil status certificates of the registry office Sieglar (births 1811-1908, marriages 1811-1938, deaths 1811-1968), and Troisdorf (registers only start in 1858).

Bornheim (Just the other side of the Rhine from Troisdorf!) • The Bornheim City Archives has had their civil certificates for the districts of Hersel, Sechtem and Waldorf digitized by Ancestry, and they will soon be available on the Ancestry portal. • www.bornheim.de/stadtarchiv/a • (births until 1900, marriages and hnenforschung-online deaths until 1932) • The scanned decennal tables are now available for download free of charge For the Dezennaltabellen of: from the city archive website. • Hersel • The duplicates of the death • certificates 1876-1937 from Bornheim Sechtem (from 1932) - are available online on • Waldorf teh NRW State archive website.

Stadtarchiv Herne & Wanne-Eickel

• Geburtsregister für Herne 1874-1910, Sodingen 1902-1908, Baukau 1897-1907, Wanne 1876-1908, Eickel 1891-1911 und Röhlinghausen 1901-1908 • Heiratsregister für Herne 1874-1938, Sodingen 1909-1934, Baukau 1897-1910, Wanne(-Eickel) 1876-1937, Eickel 1892- 1927 und Röhlinghausen 1901-1927 • Sterberegister für Herne 1874-1988, • www.herne.de/Stadt-und- Sodingen 1902-1934, Baukau 1897-1910, Leben/Stadtgeschichte/Stadtarchiv/Stadt Wanne(-Eickel) 1876-1974, Eickel 1892- archiv-digital/ 1927 und Röhlinghausen 1901-1927 • Surname adoption List Wanne Eickel: • Kriegssterberegister aus dem 1. und 2. https://wiki.hv-her- Weltkrieg sowie ein Ausländer- wan.de/index.php?title=Festlegung_der_ Sterberegister von 1949 in Wanne-Eickel Familiennamen_j%C3%BCdischer_Einwoh ner_Hernes_und_Eickels_1846_-_1848

Guetersloh, NRW

• www.kreis-guetersloh.de/unser- kreis/kreisarchiv/service/familie n-und- heimatforschungforschung/0.3- archiv-bibliographie.pdf?cid=44n

• 8 page online family history guide

Moenchengladbach, NRW

• www.limburg- bernd.de/Kirchen%20und%20Ka pellen%20in%20Moenchengladb ach/Vitus-Post%208.pdf

• 24 page guide

What is online now?

• On Ancestry: Cities of Berlin, Dresden, Flensburg, Halle, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Lübeck, Ludwigshafen, Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Mönchengladbach, Nuremberg, Oldenburg, Rostock, Speyer, Trier, Weimar, Worms. • Also Saarland, Hessen & Luxembourg • More coming soon! • Lots of these are also free to view on Family Search too!

Some Webinar Sessions I have taken recently: • A la Karte: Borders, Maps and Gazetteers for German Genealogists by James M. Beidler (4 page handout). (Legacy) • Leveraging MyHeritage’s German Resources Effectively by James M. Beidler (3 page handout). (Legacy) • Discover the holdings of German Archives by Teresa Steinkamp McMillin CG (7 page handout). (Legacy) • German Genealogy: What Do You Need to Know? By Carol Whitton CG (6 page handout) from St Louis Genealogical Society. https://stlgs.org • See also other resources on their website: https://stlgs.org/about-us- 2/sigs-and-special-programs/german-special-interest-group-2 . • E.g. German SIG’s Website 2 page listing!

Covid-19 means time for more online genealogy!

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