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Comment by Catherine Davis on February 21, 2011 at 3:30pm

 

Albertus,

     Unless someone in the group has done research on your family and can supply you with translated copies of the records, you're going to be pretty much stuck with using records in German. As far as I know, there is no place where you can find already translated German records.   I had no experience with the German language until I started researching my husband's family.  Then, I found that with a dictionary, the LDS genealogical word list, and a "cheat sheet" of the old German script, reading the records was doable--a lot of work but doable.  Have you seen

http://net.lib.byu.edu/fslab/researchoutlines/Europe/Germany.pdf ? The research guide that shows up includes a section (on p 39) that gives clues to reading the handwriting. Also, If you look at the left hand column of the webpage, the 4th file is the genealogical word list; click on this.  Also, check with your local Family History Center; someone there may have enough German experience to help you get started reading the records, or who might, for a fee, do the research for you.

Regarding your question about "Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Mulheim (Ruhr), that is the name of the church--Evangelisch means Protestant (or Lutheran in Germany), Reformierte means Reformed.  Kirche means church, and Mulheim is the town.  So, if you find this in the LDS catalog, it means you are looking at the Protestant Reformed Church in Mulheim.  I checked the catalog--Mulheim also has an Evangelisch Kirche (i.e., Lutheran) and also a Catholisch Kirche (Catholic Church).  Hopefully, you have an idea of which church you want.  If you click on the title of the church you'll end up with a whole series of film numbers showing such stuff as taufen (births), heiraten (marriages), and toten (births).  The en is the plural form of the words, so you might also see the words without the en.  Pick the dates you're interested in, and that's the film you want.

Comment by Albertus Lang on February 18, 2011 at 3:13pm

Catherine,,The deaths i am looking for are in Germany ,the area i think is Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Mulheim(Ruhr) Or is this The Register,the time frame about Late 1800's but not sure as i don't know German at all ,hope that helps ,many thanks Albertus.

Comment by Catherine Davis on February 18, 2011 at 9:30am

Albertus, are you looking for deaths in the US or Germany?  And in what time frame?

Comment by Rhonda Buchalla-Foley on February 18, 2011 at 9:25am

I was always told thier spelling of Buchalla had 2 h's in it before they came over. I found a 1900 census where there is a Hermon Buchaller in Harvey Co Ks and he is single and working as a servant and born in 1871.might be him don't know.  I found his father came in Baltimore 1893 on ancestry but I also found another Franz Buchalla came in much later after the 1900's I am so ready to put this tree to rest, I have been working on it for to many years.

Comment by Albertus Lang on February 17, 2011 at 11:57pm

Hello All list, Just a bump up on my Giesen Death Details,like Gerhard Giesen,Joes Hermannus Giesen,Wilhelmus Giesen Anna Giesen Magdalena Giesen,Maria Giesen in previous Comment,Many Thanks Albertus

Comment by Catherine Davis on February 17, 2011 at 8:40pm

Rhonda, I'm not finding the spelling Buchalla with any of the first names you've mentioned in any of the censuses or in any ships list.  Do you know if the name may have been spelled differently?  Or where in the US the family settled?

Comment by Rhonda Buchalla-Foley on February 17, 2011 at 5:51pm

Hello, I just joined the group in hoping to make some connection to my German ancestors. My Greatgrandfather Wilhelm Herman Buchalla born 16 Apr 1871, do not know when he came over. but his father was named Franz and the mother's name was Auguste (Werner)BuchallaTheir were 3 children Wilhelm,Fredrich and Carolina. Have been told the children stowed away on the ship, they were caught shortly afterwards and were made to worked for thier passage. I have been hunting for him for close to 35 yrs.I know they were here by 1900, becuase he married my Greatgrandmother Dec 24,1900. Would love to finally make a connection. Thank you for reading this.

Rhonda

Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on January 16, 2011 at 10:59am

Michael,  thanks to you for posting the Auschwitz links.  As a result, I acted on a hunch based on a comment made by a family member and discovered that 17 ancestoral persons were indeed prisoners at Auschwitz.  Amazing stuff!  Mindblowing at this point.

Comment by Catherine Davis on January 3, 2011 at 7:08pm

Michael, I think the address given is more likely the address of his residence in Schwerin where he census was taken, rather than in Cumlosen.  And the more I look at it, I think the street name may be Alexandrina or Alexandriea.  German letters that are all squiggles and e's that look like our n's given me fits.  And the thing in the address that I originally thought was a # is missing the bottom hatch mark, so now I don't know what the mark before the number 16 might be.  It doesn't really look like Str for strasse, or street.  It looks a little like one of our H's, but the old Germans didn't make H's that way.

Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on January 3, 2011 at 11:34am

Dang! Catherine, you are good at the reading of old records!  Bravo!

That is about the same translation I got for that record on Hesse too.

 

 

 

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