JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 JGSGB German SIG German Interest Records What’s new? Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 6 December 2020 1 4 New books here since we last met in September 2020 The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering Holocaust the Hidden Life of a Nazi Daniel Lee Bruchsal Bruchsal 1946-48 Zerstorte Stadt Carl Ohler Hubert Cames and Grevenbroich Geschichte der Juden in Grevenbroich Ulrich Herlitz UK Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History James Picciotto 2 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 1 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Bavaria • https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de • Digital Newspapers Archive for Bavaria • https://bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de • Books about Bavaria • www.digitale-sammlungen.de • Digital collections of the Bavarian State Library • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:Bavaria • Bavaria Portal 3 https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2020/11/20/germany-cemeteries • 3 year project underway to • www.hdbg.de/juedische- document all Jewish cemeteries in friedhoefe/index.php Bavaria with a priority on the • Website for Jewish cemeteries in eroding inscriptions (sandstone). Bavaria • 106 cemeteries known to project, • https://iajgscemetery.org/germany/ but many more exist. bayern-bavaria lists 276 Jewish • 111 closed cemeteries. cemeteries in Bavaria • Alphabetical listing: www.uni- • See also JOWBR: heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj/FRI www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ce EDHOF/Bayern/fk-bayer.htm metery 4 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 2 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Dresden • Births, 1876-1907 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5405 • Marriages, 1876-1922 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9152 • Deaths, 1876-1957 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9153 5 Records in Leipzig or an Approach to finding records for a new place (for you) in Germany • www.xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/k-l/1177- leipzig-sachsen • www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1817680 • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Leipzig • https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/leipzig • www.leipzig.de/wirtschaft-und-wissenschaft/bibliotheken-und- archive/stadtarchiv/ • www.leipzig.de/wirtschaft-und-wissenschaft/bibliotheken-und- archive/stadtarchiv/archivbestaende-und-findmittel • www.facebook.com/stadtarchivleipzig • http://bibliotheken-leipzig.de/index.php/de/alphabetische-suche/s/148- stadtarchiv-leipzig-bibliothek • www.familysearch.org 6 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 3 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Research Strategies - Generic • Learn about research in your specific area on Familysearch Wiki • When searching for a hometown, consider social network (chain migration) and DNA for complex challenges • Use maps to understand location and geography of your ancestral village • Investigate German language genealogy websites for your specific area • Check if there is an local community history available • For civil registration (after 1874) search Ancestry’s collection and Polish archives • Consider searching archives for other types of records, such as court, tax, and estate records. Try search word combinations such as [surname] [village name] or [occupation]. These records are rarely online but you may be able to order them. 7 Oldenburg Saxony • Birth Records, 1876-1905 • www.ancestry.com/search/colle ctions/60646 • Marriage Records, 1876-1930 • www.ancestry.com/search/colle ctions/60647 • Death Records, 1876-1960 • www.ancestry.com/search/colle ctions/60648 8 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 4 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Deutsches Automobil-Adressbuch 1909 • http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Deutsches_Automobil- Adre%C3%9Fbuch/Adressbuch_1909 9 Hessen • www.lagis- hessen.de/de/subjects/index/sn/pstr • www.lagis-hessen.de/pstr • https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/de tailAction.action?detailid=g31726 • https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/de tailAction.action?detailid=g31726 • www.archive.nrw.de/landesarchiv- nrw/landesarchiv-nrw-abteilung- rheinland/weiterfuehrende- informationen 10 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 5 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Filae www.filae.com/ressources/nouveaux- actes-releves-allemagne Filae is paid for French records site 11 Fold 3 WW2 records Germans who died 12 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 6 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Ancestry Germany Resources (On .com) • Go to Card Catalog • Select Europe then Germany • See 1970 different collections • You can drill down further, by: • Record category • Date • Location (Lande) 13 3-D Ruhr Map - https://3d.ruhr/#/legend 14 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 7 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 5 Common German Genealogy Research Problems • Tough-to-understand records – hard to read too! • Name changes and translations – Anglisized? • Elusive places of origin: • Austria, Switzerland, Alsace (part of France), much of what is now Poland, Luxembourg, southern Denmark, the present Czech Republic, or even a little bit of Russia. (German speaking!) • Confusing dates – sometimes even French Revolution! • Cultural myths and traditions 15 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 16 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 8 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Juden im Deutschen Reich – eine genealogische Datenbank • https://ofb.genealogy.net/juden_nw • Database contains data on people of Jewish faith or descent who lived in the former German Reich within the borders of 1914 or are closely connected to this area. • The database is far from being representative and error-free for all regions. Corrections & additions are welcome: [email protected] 17 Alsace Lorraine Jewish Cemeteries http://judaisme-dev.sdv.fr/cimetieres/index.html Alsace-Lorraine, (German Elsass- Lothringen), area comprising the present French départements of Haut-Rhin, Bas- Rhin, and Moselle. 5,067 square miles (13,123 square km) 18 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 9 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 German Emigration to Brazil (In German and Portuguese) • https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imigra%C3%A7%C3%A3o_alem%C3%A3_no_Brasil • https://brasil500anos.ibge.gov.br/territorio-brasileiro-e-povoamento/alemaes/os-imigrantes-alemaes-no- brasil.html • www.familysearch.org/wiki/pt/Alemanha,_Listas_alem%C3%A3s_de_imigrantes_-_Auswanderung • www.dw.com/pt-br/as-diferentes-fases-da-imigra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-alem%C3%A3-no-brasil/a-1195367-0 • www.geni.com/projects/Imigrantes-Alem%25C3%25A3es-ao-Brasil-German-Immigrants-to-Brazil/10649 • www.estudopratico.com.br/imigracao-alema-para-o-brasil • www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn-94-108.htm • http://www.arquivohistoricojoinville.com.br/ListaImigrantes/lista/tudo.htm • http://sites.rootsweb.com/~brawgw/alemanha/colsle_02fev27.htm • www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brawgw/alemanha/Projeto_imigracao_alema.htm 19 Netherlands NoordHolland Civil Registration • 1811-1950 • Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths • Includes ten year indexes, marriage intentions, marriage proclamations, and marriage supplements. • www.familysearch.org/search/co llection/2020117 • NoordHolland is 1 of 12 regions 20 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 10 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 Top 25 Dutch Websites For Genealogy www.antecedentia.com/2020/09/top-25-dutch- websites-for-genealogy • National • Provincial • Cities • Overseas (formerly in NL) • Images • See also: FamilySearch, MyHeritage & Ancestry. 21 German Archives Portal - www.archivportal-d.de The German Archives Portal (Archivportal-D) contains archival information provided by German- based archives and is the central access point for users interested in Germany´s archival material. Over 200 different archives 22 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 11 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 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/ 23 Polish Records www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl 24 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 06/12/2020 12 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/12/2020 The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust • Editors: Lawson, Tom, Pearce, Andy (Eds.) • Published – 2020, available 2021 • Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan • ISBN: 978-3-030-55932-8 e-book • Hardcover 978-3-030-55931-1 • e-book EUR 96,29 • Hardcover EUR 124,79 25 The 12 Best German Genealogy Websites www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/german-genealogy-websites • Archion – church records • Kartenmeister - • Matricula – church records www.kartenmeister.com • FamilySearch • CompGen - www.compgen.de • Ancestry £ • GenTeam - www.genteam.at • MyHeritage £ • DWB - http://dwb.uni-trier.de/de • Meyers Gazetteer - • GeoGen Surname Mapper www.meyersgaz.org http://legacy.stoepel.net/en • Das Telefonbuch - www.dastelefonbuch.de 26 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE