Salzgitter is a little confusing to me. On the map, it looks like an
area, not one city. From what I read, it was founded by the Nazis in 1942
which made 29 small cities into one city. Perhaps there may be church
records for some of the cities separately. ???
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
It is confusing isn't it? I had a good 7 months productive research this
year and found this place existed early 1800's and one of the films at
familysearch shows the Salzgitter "Court Addresses" which were tallied each
year (originally each July then changed to December).
I was lucky enough to find that house number 86 of the 1852 Salzgitter list
(essentially a full census but without mention of a birthplace) was the
domicile of an Ehlers family I'm interested in.
The history of Salzgitter mentions annual Music Fests and I found some
streets in the 1800's were predominantly occupied by musicians. I would be
interested in discovering how often the fests took place because one
December census showed the full musical Bielstein family, of parents and
young children, I'm also following - where they taking a break from
travelling to visit family for Xmas and were they the ones who took my
gt.grandfather to England from his home in Steinlah just a few miles away.
Regards,
Rena