Joe,
In Germany, church and civil records are kept at the local level. Before you can do any research in Germany you must know the place of birth or residence of your ancestor.
How/where did you obtain the marriage record of Joseph Preis and Anna Maria Jocham?
This will be the place where you need to concentrate your research in Germany.
Have you checked at the LDS to see if they have the Catholic church records of that town on microfilm?
Failing this, you may not be able to find any German Catholic church records online. The alternative would be to engage the services of a German [local] genealogist willing to check the records. Although, I have heard that the Catholic church is not too keen on opening its records to outsiders.
Regarding the maiden name of Anna Maria Preis, the marriage record listed her maiden name as JOCHAM - why are you now changing it to JOCHUM and JOCKUM?
Ursula
Joe, most of the records for Bavaria are now kept in centralized locations,
not at the individual churches.
I do not know how many locations there are, but Regensburg has a repository
for much of Bavaria/Bayern.
All I had was a name, birth date and 'Bavaria' to go on and got very lucky.
I had gone to Munich and tried searching their limited records and found
nothing.
Not being able to read/speak German or Latin, or the 'old' style writing, I
wouldn't have gotten far having the records. Then a private (Bavarian)
researcher (i.e. not for hire) offered to help.
I was then able to visit the village from where my gggrandfather left in
1845. Thrilling.
Good luck.
Ellen
Ursula,
You are mistaken. This is the marriage record of Joseph & Anna Maria's son Joseph to Helena Grove. This came from the St. Nicholas RC church records in St. Louis, MO. Thus I have no clue as to what locality to concentrate my search in Germany, nor what LDS films to review since I do not know what place or church.
Regarding Jackum/Jocham, sorry, still learning new names. Typos happen. It is now properly entered into my FTM DB as the preferred name.
Thanks for your input.
Joe
Ursula B Adamson wrote:
A question for those more experienced with German genealogy -
Is Preis a common surname? If not, Joe might have some luck by looking for
the surname to narrow down possible towns and parishes within Bavaria. A
quick search of familysearch.org found several Joseph Preis in the Pfalz
area (none with the right birth year though)
Angela
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Ellen, thrilling indeed. What a wonderful experience. Like you, all I have is a name, birth date and place of birth,/registration. Great the difference a private researcher, presumably German, made. Pleased for you.
Liz in Scotland