From German Girls Genealogy (Teresa Steinkamp McMillin & Debra A. Hoffman): The northern part of the historic Rhineland area is in today’s North-Rhine Westphalia. To read more about the histories of these specific regions, see my prior blog post: https://lindstreet.blog/2020/05/21/german-states-and-provinces-as-of-1912-and-their-current-locations/. The great part about this area is that portions were under French control in the… Continue reading Records Update for the Historic Rhineland Area
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Finding German Emigration Records
From German Girls Genealogy (Teresa Steinkamp McMillin & Debra A. Hoffman): In my last blog post, I showed my great great grandmother’s emigration record [Auswanderungsakte] from Baden in 1854. In this post, I am going to show you how I found her record on the Baden-Württemberg State Archive website [Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg]. The images of these… Continue reading Finding German Emigration Records
Finding Records in the North Rhine Westphalian State Archive
I recently did a presentation about using German Archives. I used one of my ancestral towns, Delbrück, as an example. Delbrück is about a half-hour drive west of Paderborn in Germany. Someone in my audience suggested I create a blog post about this process, so here we are! I knew that there were special contracts… Continue reading Finding Records in the North Rhine Westphalian State Archive
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