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Here are some advices for your genealogical research:
1) Ask relatives: Ask all the relatives you know. In one case or another, you will get new information. Perhaps someone has already collected information. 2) Search estates: Look in the estates of your ancestors, but also those of your uncles and aunts. It is not uncommon to find valuable information there: a family register, a birth certificate, a marriage entry. 3) Please note: Note that in earlier times, family trees were found under the father's surname. Marriage entries were also (with a few exceptions) only registered under the groom's surname. 4) Think outside the box: Occasionally, old files from ancestors who are not from the direct line can also provide valuable information. An example: The first legitimate child of a couple (e.g. your great-great-grandfather) was born in 1789, then there is no need to look for a marriage in a later year. The entry "legitimate" or "illegitimate" in a Catholic church register tells us whether the couple was already married at the time of birth. 5) Use the Internet: Use the modern possibilities of the Internet. Many entries (but unfortunately too few for genealogical research) have already been digitized. In fact, all German-language Catholic church registers have now been digitized. * Use relevant sites such as https://www.sudetendeutsche-familienforscher.de, https://data.matricula-online.eu, https://www.genealogie-kiening.de/ and many more. * You can also use paid internet portals (see also https://www.netzsieger.de/k/genealogie-software), if you are lucky you will find further information there (perhaps your second cousin's daughter has already done some research). * Use online search engines such as https://gedbas.genealogy.net/, but note that narrowing down the search terms is often not without problems. Also note that there are often several places with the same name and that some old districts can only be found in historical archives and no longer on maps or Google Maps. |
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Yes, genealogy is exciting and challenging :-) Include original sources: Often enough, original sources are required for family trees that go back to the 19th century. Ideally, these are digital, but not infrequently they are still available in analog form, e.g. on microfilm. Typewriters were what artificial intelligence is today in the late 19th century. Fonts also changed over the centuries, as did spelling. The first edition of the Duden dates back to 1880, and Sütterlin was not the standard font until the beginning of the 20th century. So, as I said: Genealogy is exciting and challenging. Take on this challenge and the search is both the path and the goal. |
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What we can offer you if you want our support: Costs: 20 Euros per hour (research and logging) (including Value Added Tax that's 23.80 euros), for original research on site on request. |
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Join us: It is not uncommon for people on average incomes to be unable to research their ancestry because of the costs. |