Timeline for Finding Irish children in Germany post-1917?
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| Dec 26, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | Jan Murphy♦ | Reminder: please don't answer questions in the comments. Please add new information to the question or answers. | |
| Dec 26, 2018 at 17:15 | comment | added | Cyn | For German resources, all I have is: calzareth.com/aufbau/search.html and genteam.at Ancestry international has some German records so check out a library. My family is Jewish so I use places like JewishGen, but obviously that doesn't work for everyone. And of course you should check out materials available at FamilySearch.org, if you haven't already. Keep in mind that they have numerous reels of scanned records. Some are indexed (in general search), some are online as is without any indexing, and some are not online yet but will be. | |
| Dec 26, 2018 at 17:12 | comment | added | Cyn | The nice thing Fold3 does (similar to Ancestry and some others) is that it allows you to search without a paid subscription and it shows you the results. You can't click through to see those results (unless they're ones available free or unless they're running one of their periodic "free access to XYZ records" days) but at least you know they might be there. I say might because it could be for someone else with a similar name or something not quite as it says. Some libraries and genealogy centers have free access to Fold3. They have a few things Ancestry doesn't. | |
| Dec 26, 2018 at 10:39 | comment | added | Tom Carty | I never heard of Fold3 before - ill check it out. All I know is that he was in the American Cavalry, and we have a photo of him with his horse. Any links to where I can find marraige records and birth certs in Germany? Would they have still been keeping records in Germany in the aftermath of the Great War? | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 22:51 | history | edited | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 25, 2018 at 22:51 | comment | added | Cyn | Another Ancestry example: U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985. One for a relative gives the branch as "Navy and Reserve Officers 1944, Jul 01" and also gives the file number, name, rank, classification, navel schools attended, date of precedence, year of birth, and pay entry base. | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 22:48 | comment | added | Cyn | Example: U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010. My great uncle's gives his name, gender, birth date, death date, cause of death (just says "natural"), SSN, Branch (his says Army), enlistment date, and release date. | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 22:46 | comment | added | Cyn | Ancestry has a variety of military records. They aren't the very detailed ones but sometimes they're enough to help with a larger search. I've found many that give the branch of the armed forces, the person's rank, and dates of deployment. Sometimes there are a few more details than that. I haven't spent much time on Fold3 but they have many of the same records Ancestry does (being owned by them) plus a few more. | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | Jan Murphy♦ | "These documents might be on Ancestry or Fold3 or other online places." No, they aren't. Your answer could be improved by removing this statement, or suggesting how a person could make use of what resources are online. | |
| Dec 24, 2018 at 16:38 | history | answered | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |