Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Anglo-German Family History Developments in German-Jewish Genealogy Over the Last Few Years Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 10 April 2021 New JewishGen Homepage www.jewishgen.org • Mobile-responsive • Intuitive design • A platform that many people are familiar with • Easier searching • Easier locating ancestral communities • Exploring life in your ancestral communities • Joining discussion groups • Volunteering • Donating Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 2 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 1 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 The Unified Search – Everything! Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 3 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 4 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 2 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 GerSIG is now the German Research Division Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 5 JewishGen’s German Research Division Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 6 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 3 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 www.facebook.com/groups/GerSIGGermanJewishGenealogy Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 7 More than GerSIG https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ • Alemannia Judaica • www.alemannia-judaica.de • Central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany • https://zentralarchiv-juden.de/ • Jewish Places • www.jewish-places.de • Arolsen Archives • https://arolsen-archives.org/ • Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum • Train of Commemoration • www.zug-der- • www.xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de erinnerung.eu/kinder.html Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 8 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 4 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 10 must knows when starting German genealogy • Always look at Church records • There was no national census in Germany in C18th or C19th • If your surname has an ae oe or ue it might have had an umlaut • Get a useful word list for German words • Get a useful word list for Latin ones words • Be flexible on spelling • Be more specific than just Prussia • Graves are re-cycled every 20-30 years • Lots of towns have the same name, be careful to research in the right one • Not everything is online, use maps, books and gazetteers too • https://sktranslations.com/10must-knowsgermangenealogy Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 9 Portal Datenbanken – Databases & Projects http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:Datenbanken • Adressbücher • Digitale Bibliothek • Grabsteine • Familienanzeigen • Literatur • Historische Fotostudios • Ortsfamilienbücher • Projektdatenbanken (DES) • Totenzettel • GEDBAS • Verlustlisten Deutschland 1. WK • GOV • Verlustlisten Österreich 1. WK Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 10 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 5 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Ortsfamilienbücher - Local family books • All over Germany, local family books (OFB) appear in all forms: printed, as a book on demand, on CD, as a PDF file, as a database, by associations and, last but not least, as an online local family book by CompGen • Usually based on church registers • Specific websites exist for Christian records in Germany e.g. Matricula. • Read more on FamilySearch research wiki: • https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Ger many_Genealogy • See also Genwiki & Archion Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 11 Historic photo studios of Germany (FOTOSTUDIOS UND FOTOGRAFEN) • http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Fotostudio • Fotostudios alphabetisch sortiert • Fotostudios nach Orten sortiert • Fotostudios nach Sammlungen sortiert • Alphabetical • By Place • By Collection Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 12 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 6 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Verlustlisten – Casualty Lists from WW1 • http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search?lang=en • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Verlustlisten_%C3%96sterreich-Ungarns_1914- 1919 • Germany • Austro-Hungary Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 13 Germany Military Killed in Action 1939-1948 www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61641 • http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe- verlustlisten/search?lang=en Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 14 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 7 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Want Pre-war addresses in Germany? – Use Addressbooks • On University websites • http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/titleinfo/8407116 • On genealogy Indexer - http://genealogyindexer.org • On Genealogie.netz http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/?lang=en • Search here: http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net • See also https://ahnen-forscher.com • Some on Genealogy Indexer - http://genealogyindexer.org • List of all online address books - https://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/addressbooks/all • Many digitised address books online on Genwiki. Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 15 Comp Gen on You Tube www.youtube.com/channel/UCPKKtb0N_iJftmNnJCClV0A www.compgen.de/2021/02/compgen-erweitert-seine-youtube-praesenzSlides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 16 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 8 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Fold 3 WW2 records Germans who died Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 17 Thomas MacEntee’s top 10 German Resources https://genealogybargains.s3.amazonaws.com/Top+10+Germa n+Genealogy+Resources.pdf • See also other free info: • https://genealogybargains.com/f ree-genealogy-cheat-sheets/ Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 18 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 9 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Ancestry German Collections • https://www.ancestry.com/search/places/europe/germany • Go to Card Catalog • Select Europe then Germany • See 1970 different collections • You can drill down further, by: • Record category • Date • Location (Lande) Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 19 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 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 20 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 10 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 New Berlin records at Ancestry • Births 1874- 1909, marriages 1874- 1936, deaths 1874-1955. • Births: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5753 • Marriages: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2957 • Deaths: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2958 • To 1948 only Standesamt I, From 1949 Standesamt 1 E and Standesaamt 1 W • For 1948 death certs in 3 groups: • Standesamt I in Berlin (Certs 1-19000) up to 29.9.1948 • Standesamt I in Berlin-E (Certs 19001-24116) 25.9.1948 – 31.12.1948 • Standesamt I in Berlin-W (Certs 25001-25062) 25.11.1948-31.12.1948) • From 1949 E & W used their own numbering systems. • Also Deaths of German Citizens Abroad, Registers - Berlin Standesamt 1 • 1939-1955 www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61888 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 21 Records and Family Search Germany Page Country Images Germany 85,357,860 • 85,357,860 records & images (growing!) Mexico 63,530,408 • www.familysearch.org/search/collectio Sweden 45,910,699 n/location/1927074?region=Germany Netherlands 18,018,230 France 12,010,885 • See also the FamilySearch Research Wiki England 9,948,263 Ireland 7,868,337 Italy 7,541,275 United Kingdom 3,264,935 Australia 1,618,183 Brazil 1,591,900 Russia 1,032,510 South Africa 1,029,108 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 22 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 11 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 Germany Online Genealogy Records in FamilySearch Research Wiki www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Germany_Online_Genealogy_Records Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 23 Germany Resources on MyHeritage.com • Growing area • MyHeritage are scouring Germany for new collections. • Keep watching for announcements of new data coming soon! Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 24 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 12 Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021 MyHeritage Additions • German Minority Census, 1939 www.myheritage.com/research/collection- 10901/german-minority-census-1939 • 410,919 records (See also Tracing the Past) • Auschwitz Death Certificates, 1941-1943 - 65,280 records • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10460/auschwitz-death- certificates-1941-1943 • Germany records • www.myheritage.com/research/category-Germany/germany-genealogy- vital-records Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 25 MyHeritage Added Two More Record Collections from Hessen, Germany • Hessen Birth Index (1874–1911) & Hessen Marriage Index (1849–1931). • The collections contain 8.5 million historical records. • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10816/germany-hesse-birth- index-1874-1911 • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10817/germany-hesse- marriage-index-1849-1931 • Searching these indexes is free but a subscription to MyHeritage data is needed to view the full records, save them to your family tree, and fully access Record Matches. 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