Questions tagged [17th-century]
For questions about research in the period from 1601 to 1700.
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Why would a family baptise at a parish but not marry or bury there?
I am researching the ancestors of Clementia Underhill, who married William Caldicott in 1703. According to her burial record from 1760, she was born in about 1675.
I believe that she was the daughter ...
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Did other countries have the concentration of first names that England had in past centuries?
Anyone who has done genealogical research on England in the 17th through 19th centuries will have noticed it: a parade of Johns, Williams and Thomases, accompanied by Marys, Elizabeths and Annes. ...
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Finding the parents of Guillielmus and Egidius Van Sever?
So far I have found quite a bit of information on related family trees on myheritage.com (basically it got added automatically to my tree after filling in a couple) and on the following website: http:/...
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Interpreting 17th century German dates?
I am working on the biography of a distant relative, Anna Bertschinger. The hand-written notes I got handed down from my grandfather state:
verm. 2. post trin. 1649
I understand that this refers ...
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Interpreting 17th century German church record?
I'm an amateur genealogist and I have browsed through 17th and 18th century German church records in pursuit of my ancestry and I am now stuck.
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My sources come from: https://www.archion....
