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Reading given name of German great-grandaunt?
The name is Agnes.
You can compare each of the letters to those shown in this BYU Script Tutorial for German handwriting.
I extracted the relevant letters from the alphabet image on that site, and ...
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German or Czech town (or city)
This seems to say "Auscha," which is indeed the German name of a town known in Czech as Úštěk.
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Is there such a thing as Ashkenazi Jewish surnames?
Ashkenazi Surnames really only came about in the early 1800s actually. The Jews of Western Europe (Germany, France, and England etc) took surnames sooner than their coreligionists in Eastern Europe. ...
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Seeking details of travel to South Africa in 1920s
If you are on Facebook, there is a closed and private group called 'South African Genealogy' that has lots of helpful and active members who know their way around the South African information sites.
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Translating profession from two records written in Kurrentshrift
The occupation is
Möbelpolierer
[furniture polisher]
Probably different tasks depending on the employer: at a residence, a furniture store or a factory
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Reference Key for Injuries for WWI German Casualty Lists?
Casualties in the Verlustlisten include the following keys and abbreviations:
t or † (“tot”) – dead
gefallen – killed in action
† an seinen schweren Wunden – died because of his serious injuries
v. ...
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How should I interpret this Buchenwald camp card?
I understand it as follows: He arrived in Buchenwald 26 January 1945 ("26.1.45 eingel.") and was send to Sachsenhausen on 6 February 1945. This is however not verifiable just from the card. The ...
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Pre 1794 records for Rothenditmold, Kassel, Hessen, Germany?
I am no export on Hesse, but I did a little research:
Your LAGIS results are civil registration which started in 1874.
Church records for several parishes in today’s city of Kassel were destroyed ...
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Is there such a thing as Ashkenazi Jewish surnames?
I am not an expert, but am adding my humble bits to the answer:
There is no such thing as a jewish surname, indeed.
First of all a surname itself is not a jewish thing. Jews are not indetified by ...
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Interpreting 17th century German dates?
original, probably an exact transcript of the church register entry
"verm. 2. post trin. 1649"
with abbreviations expanded, German and Latin
"vermahlt 2. [Sonntag] post Trinitatis 1649"
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Decoding trophy cards of german soldiers (WWII)
I can confirm that the text on both cards is indeed in German. Your first card is dated to 1920, the second one seems to have been stamped by the post office in 1917. As far as I know Sütterlin was ...
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Information and photos of WW2 RAF aircraft and crew?
This article describes the incident:
http://aircrewremembered.com/roy-arnold.html
and leads me to search for "Oblt Walter Schneider" which comes up with another website or two.
https://...
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Reading given name of German great-grandaunt?
I also found it useful to have this PDF around for comparing the letters. The benefit being you can zoom it in quite a bit:
https://feefhs.org/sites/default/files/guide/german-gothic.pdf
Once you get ...
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History of German small town of Angloh?
Technique
Generally when you cannot find information on very small or insignificant placenames, you research nearby larger places (because events may apply to a larger area) or the next placename in ...
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Reading information about illegitimate children in Brackenhammer family, Kirchheim, Germany
Unless a specific line needs to addressed further, the transcript is as complete as possible at this time. (Image unavoidable, tables not possible here). "?" where unsure. s/o = struck out
Notes:
...
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Finding details of where Polish soldier in German Army was living before Great War?
The 113th infantry regiment was from Baden (Freiburg im Breisgau).
The garrison for the 113th infantry regiment can be looked up online, e.g. in GenWiki or in the literature ( Das 5. Badische ...
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How common was it for a father to be at the birth in the late 1700s early 1800s?
While the father may have been present or nearby for the births of his children, more likely, a female relative or a mid-wife actually assisted. Especially first births were likely to take the ...
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Finding records of Berlin Airlift Service by a Whitehead?
The "Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation" have a website with a fair amount of information. That includes "The Men Who Participated". That has a list of units that were involved, only some of which ...
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Verifying that Josef Berg died as shown in WWI German military record and finding his grave?
For searching in the Verlustlisten you shouldn't use Ancestry’s incomplete version, but the complete and manually indexed version by Compgen - Verein für Computergenealogie: Verlustlisten Erster ...
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Struggling to read birth record of my German Jewish great-grandfather
The father's given name is Marx Mayer. At the first appearance of this name he is further identified by the words "der Kaufmann" (merchant or business man). At the bottom of the document his name ...
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German POWs in Camp Upton and Fort Dupont
The Delaware Military History organization may have some useful material, including pictures and camp activity reports and newsletters.
The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has basic ...
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What is my Lineage?
Germany is usually considered to be part of Western Europe, therefore Western European would be the natural option to choose.
However assuming you are American I would be surprised if all your ...
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What does 1898 wedding/memorial announcement from Germany, Austria, or Slovenia say?
It is a wedding souvenir and it is in German
Alois Kowatsch Josefa Kowatsch geb Gregortschitsch
Vermählt
10. Januar 1898 zu Oestereich.
that is:
[groom] Alois Kowatsch
[bride] Josefa Kowatsch, ...
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Bauch Family records Berlin-Charlottenburg
Ancestry.com has a marriage record ($) for Alois Bauch (marriage to Selma Günther on 28 March 1905). A side note lists only one son, born 1907 (number 160/1907 Wilmersdorf), who married in 1940 in ...
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What to do with late mother's boxes of documents?
It seems that you, her son, has acquired your mother's materials and has already invested at least some time thinking about this as you are now asking this question of what to do with it.
Since you ...
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Finding recent death records in Germany?
There is no single resource for such records from recent decades. These records are kept in local registrar offices (Standesämter) and are subject to regulations according to Personenstandsgesetz for ...
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Translating WW1 German postcard?
Sectioned using photo orientation in question. German transcript (mis-spellings per original), followed by English translation:
[top left]
Von
Zum An[d]enken
1916
From ___
For remembrance
1916
[...
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Working on pre-16th century German genealogy
There are a lot of things going on in this question. I'll try to untangle a few of them.
First, the word "ben" is Hebrew for "son of" (see eg https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/...
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Is M.-Gladbach an abbreviation for Mönchengladbach in the Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg?
Yes. The place however indicates the place of birth or sometimes the last residence before being drafted. The date should be the birth date.
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Identification of church in Magdeburg
I just browsed through several of the churches, and I think it might be Sankt Gertraud (Wikipedia article). If you look at some pictures from image search (I used DuckDuckGo and Google), the front and ...
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