In einer eMail vom 01.08.2011 12:01:12 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit schreibt
hannover-l-request@genealogy.net:
I have realised over the years that Germany is one of the hardest places
to access records to seek
for our forbears.
I have posted messages to this list and none have ever been answered.
My main places of search are Hannover, Bremen and Oberschoneweide. If I
went the really expensive
route i.e. Staandeschants what records, if any, could I be expected to
find for such basic things as
"did they live here in ???" and births etc.
Hello Doreen
Sometimes people have no infos or no ideas how they can help. I have sent 2
letters to RAOK in the USA and got never an answer very unusual, i know.
If you do not search in the former eastern territories of Germany
(Pommerania for example) you should have success with churchbooks.
Ok Bremen should be possible without taking a researcher. You might contact
DIE MAUS
_Gesellschaft für Familienforschung: Die MAUS Bremen
(Gesellschaft für Familienforschung: Die MAUS Bremen)
There you have a fantastic database with emigrant, and people who are
buried in Bremen for example look at this first before you take a researcher.
_Gesellschaft für Familienforschung: Die MAUS Bremen
(Gesellschaft für Familienforschung: Die MAUS Bremen)
There you have all databases of the mouse and you should find perhaps
something of interest.
Hannover is not as easy as we have the Kingdom of Hannover which is a big
area. Or you mean Hannover City, which might be easier.
If you have the concrete city, were you want to search you can try first to
contact the church in that town sometimes they help sometimes they say the
have no time and give you the adress of some researchers which help you
for a little fee. But ask before how much they want.
Usually our churchbooks are really perfect for such infos, Name of father
and mother name of all children and so on. Sometimes you must ask infos for
the time after 1875 in the so called Standesamt usually a part of the town
majors office. (Rathaus in Germany or sometimes today called Bürgerbüro)
Hope you have a little sucess
Armin