Dear Marie
The pictures on pages 1,2,3,4 all came through beautifully. Thank you so
very very much. They are wonderful. You are a good "camera" lady.
Please don't apologize for your English. You do very, very well. I wish I
could do as well with my German. As you may have noticed, I don't really
make an effort as my German is really bad. I'm improving on reading church
records, however. Even the ones in 'Old Script". I believe I can understand
everything you said. I won't hesitate to ask questions if I can't
understand.
I have a VIERECK relative living in Malchin with whom I have been in touch.
He was delighted to find out about his family. (I had more info than he
had). However, he either isn't too interested in research or perhaps isn't
able. At any rate he can't seem to be of much help. He is the one however,
who said the VIERECK's owned property around Doergelin or Schorrentin. He
wasn't sure where it was located. He also said he thought he had relatives in
that area but didn't know any of them. I hope to find out for him. He will
be happy then. His name is Ulrich Viereck.
Again, viele danke fuer das fotos. Ist sehr wunderbar. [Have a good laugh at
my poor German. Keep them coming.
Greetings,
Irma
I have been researching in the Cammin (A.G. Strelitz) parish records, an
affiliate of R�dlin parish. However, while my Schubert marriage books show
marriage extracts back to 1750, there seems to be only one film with Cammin
inhabitants listed therein:
69799 - covers Cammin 1856-1934 and also
covers R�dlin 1826-1890
69798- covers R�dlin 1731-1825
There are no listings for any christenings/marriages/deaths for Cammin in
any of the R�dlin records.
My question is this: Did they miss microfilming these records or does
someone know of another film that they are on? If not, then where are the
pre-1856 records at??? This is not to be confused with other towns named
Cammin. This is Mecklenburg-Strelitz specific.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
Hi Robert
The Mormans have done a great job of microfilming records in Germany but
they have done only a fraction of the churches, some of the records are
still in the town churches some have been taken to local archives, some of
the years are missing, ect. I hired a professional in Germany to go to the
villiage of my family, otherwise I would have never found where the roots of
my ancestors.
Good Luck
Steve Wehling
Thanks Steve,
You may very well be right, and I have an idea that somehow they missed the
earlier records. For Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz though
they I believe have to have gotten at least 95+% of all of the evangelical
church records pre-1875 though, and in my many many years of researching
this area, this is the first time I have run across a gap, that was not due
to records not being in existance. Especially pre-1800, there are many
parishes where for whatever reasons, fire, flood, lost, etc. there are gaps,
but not a good 100 years. Appreciate your quick response though and will be
interested to see if anyone else has any clues for me!
Robert
There is a film# 069800 listed for 1810-1934. R�dlin.
Don't know if it covers Cammin or not.