Germany and German Ancestry

Comment

Comment by Marianne Szabo on June 3, 2010 at 8:13am

On online-ofb.de, it's possible to go to the left column "Sprachen", click on English [or whatever] and the site is translated for you.

Comment by Michele Marie on June 3, 2010 at 8:05am

This may already be posted but I couldn't find it. Here are two web sites for German researchers. They are both in German so you may have to work a little harder than usual.

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hauptseite
http://www.online-ofb.de/ this one has information by village or town.

Comment by Linda Graves on May 24, 2010 at 9:45pm

Bob, thanks for a cheaper alternative. Linda

Comment by Bob Rowe on May 23, 2010 at 4:25am

Click on the link in Catherine's Comment. Just below the video box is another link to their store, click on that. In the center section, it is the third item in the list. Legacy is selling it for $60. Or, you can go to the Centennia site and pay $80
Legacy store link:
http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=5
The Clockwork site:
http://www.clockwk.com/p1.asp?x=1u

Comment by Linda Graves on May 22, 2010 at 9:42pm

I followed Catherine Davis' suggestion, but could not find the software in their store under centennia. Suggestions?

Comment by Catherine Davis on May 21, 2010 at 9:06pm

Check out http://www.genealogywise.com/video/centennia-mapping-software .

The trailer shows a quick changing picture of Germany from 1850 to the present.

I am not advocating the purchase of this software--and, in fact, have not bought it myself--but the "trailer" which shows a quick changing picture of Germany from 1850 (when Germany's states first tried to unify) to the present, is worth watching for those of us trying to figure out how German geography may affect our research. Realize Germany didn't become unified until the 1870's under Bismarck, and, even then, "dukedoms" remained until after WWI. From a genealogy standpoint, it's even worse before 1850, when Germany was not unified at all but was divided into states which sometimes owned land outside the state's geographic boundaries (Bavaria, e.g., not only included the land of current Bavaria, in the southeast around Munich, but also had land along the Rhine in the northwest.)

Comment by Barbara Butler on May 21, 2010 at 7:20am

When I visited Germany the old cemetery was covered with the new one. I had an old cemetery picture from my grandmother but the new one on top. You may have to talk to the church to find out.

Comment by Barbara Ann Rendl on May 20, 2010 at 3:58pm

Thank you, Michael for the websites......I have a translation page I use, but it is fun trying to brush up on my two semesters of college German.....

Comment by Barbara Ann Rendl on May 20, 2010 at 3:57pm

I don't know that it happens in all German cemeteries, I was just searching Interment.net for a family name, and the "rental" blurb was posted on almost every cemetery I searched, saying that it was very common in Germany.....

Comment by Catherine Davis on May 20, 2010 at 3:08pm

I can't speak for all German cemeteries, but we visited one in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, where the current cemetery is on the only hill in town, and it is a hill because they periodically bring in a new 6 feet of dirt, and pile it on top the existing graves. The same grave-holes were not actually reused, so no coffins were moved, just a new layer put on type of an older one. I don't know what they did with old gravestones, however. We didn't see any there from before the early 1900s. However,in Schwabisch Gmund, some quite old tombstones which had been removed from cemeteries were embedded into the outside of the church wall. I would suspect this was only done for people who had been prominent--nobility, rich merchants, and the like--but don't know for sure.

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 41
• 42
• 43
• 44
• 45
• …
• 83
• Next ›
• Page