Does anyone know if there is a website for Germany or Oldenburg where people
can list their spare records? I know Australia/New Zealand, Scotland and
certain areas of England have sites for spare certificates and/or church
records, but I don't know if there is one for Germany.
If there is no such site, can someone let me know if I'm able to send them
to the list instead? All of my spares from the Oldenburg area range from
1694 - 1850.
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Faye
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Does anyone know if there is a website for Germany or Oldenburg where people
can list their spare records? I know Australia/New Zealand, Scotland and
certain areas of England have sites for spare certificates and/or church
records, but I don't know if there is one for Germany.
If there is no such site, can someone let me know if I'm able to send them
to the list instead? All of my spares from the Oldenburg area range from
1694 - 1850.
When I ordered photocopies of the church book records for my ancestors
Baptism/Wedding/Burial, I received a photocopy of the entire page (most
times, sometimes it was just a copy of my ancestor's record) so I have a
page of baptism's, etc and only one record is for my ancestor. The other
entries on the page have no relation to me, so they are extra entries or a
'spare' (well that's what they are called in Australia, etc). Also
certificates that you may have ordered that turned out not to be your
ancestor are also called a 'spare'.
I have over 100 pages of church book entries and I don't have the time to
search through them every time someone is looking for an ancestor (I would
love to but I don't have the time), so I thought if there is a website
available that I could lodge them with when I have a few spare minutes, it
might help someone with their research someday.
If you are curious - http://www.ausbdm.org/ - this is the one for Australia
and New Zealand. It's free to join, search and to lodge your spares and the
data base is always growing. (For some states, not all, in Australia, when
you buy a historical - 1800's - BDM certificate, you receive a photocopy of
the whole page of the register which can include up to 5 entries, 1 for your
ancestor and 4 non-related entries.)
I've been searching both of those sites and I can't find where I can lodge
my spare records.
Maybe there is no website for me to lodge them or maybe there is some German
law that prevents me from putting the event, date, name, parent/s name/s and
area into such a database or on this list (other than for your own
ancestors). It seems a shame to have information that could help someone
with their research one day.