Making the Jump To Germany: Advise Anyone?

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DartmanX

Making the Jump To Germany: Advise Anyone?

Legg inn av DartmanX » 04 mar 2005 15:38:07

Over the last several years, I've done pretty well on all my lines
stateside, which account for about 75% of them.

However, I'm about to have to jump to Germany to research two families:
Oelhafen von Schoellenbach (nobility, near Nuremburg) and Heidrich
(near Gera, wherever that is).

I took a year of German in high school, many years ago, but am
wondering if anyone has any advice for someone about to have to jump
into research in Germany.

Thanks!
Jason

Lesley Robertson

Re: Making the Jump To Germany: Advise Anyone?

Legg inn av Lesley Robertson » 04 mar 2005 16:01:57

"DartmanX" <fergusonjason@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Over the last several years, I've done pretty well on all my lines
stateside, which account for about 75% of them.

However, I'm about to have to jump to Germany to research two families:
Oelhafen von Schoellenbach (nobility, near Nuremburg) and Heidrich
(near Gera, wherever that is).

I took a year of German in high school, many years ago, but am
wondering if anyone has any advice for someone about to have to jump
into research in Germany.

Start reading (and using?) the newsgroup soc.genealogy.german. They're a

helpful group and will usually reply in english if you send your message
that way.
Lesley Robertson

Lutz Engelhardt

Re: Making the Jump To Germany: Advise Anyone?

Legg inn av Lutz Engelhardt » 04 mar 2005 16:51:49

However, I'm about to have to jump to Germany to research two families:
Oelhafen von Schoellenbach (nobility, near Nuremburg) and Heidrich
(near Gera, wherever that is).

First of all you should get a good and very detailed map of Germany to
know in geographic terms what you are looking for and what you are
talking about. This way it will be easy for you to know where Gera is... ;-)

If you say "near" it won't help you so much to find anything. The usual
way to do genealogy in Germany is getting the old church books and
reading the records. Every little parish had its own church books and as
long as you just know something like "near" a town you won't be able to
find the church books. So you have to find out the exact place of birth,
death or marriage, then find the church books (if they were not
destroyed in one of the many wars over the centuries) and then find the
records. To be able to read and understand the records you should learn
the old German handwriting and you should understand written German.
Most German church books are available on microfilm at your next Family
History Center of the Mormons.

The family Oelhafen von Schöllenbach lived in Nürnberg (and Breslau and
Leipzig) and there are quite a few famous guys in this family. So it
shouldn't be so difficult to find enough documents about this family.

Good luck,

Lutz


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