Questions tagged [bavaria]
For questions about ancestors and records in the German state of Bavaria, including questions pertaining to the period before the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Where are US WW2 "War Bride" Marriage Records Located?
My grandparents were married in Regensburg, Germany. My grandfather was a part of the 250th Station Hospital and he married a German woman who was admitted to the US under PL 271 AKA "The War ...
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Emil Fuchs military history from world war 1 [duplicate]
Looking for military information, photos, rank, awards, duty stations, battles etc for Emil Fuchs. Born 7/25/1892, Deggendorf Germany.
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Locating origin of Macht Family from Bavaria;possibly Wunsiedel?
Family located from Germany to Norwich,CT area. Johann and Nicolas worked in a textile mill. Johann died in 1906 and his death certificate indicates parents names were Wolf and Barbara. Have been ...
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Seeking German military service records for Jozef Mühlgay (or his brothers) of Bavaria?
I've been trying to figure out if my great-grandfather, Jozef Mühlgay, or his brothers were called up for the Great War.
What I know is that at the time of the war, my great-grandfather and his ...
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History of German small town of Angloh?
I found the town of Angloh in Germany but nothing is left of it other than a spa.
I tried searching for weeks throughout the web but couldn't find anything about it other than coordinates.
How do I ...
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Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa?
My paternal grandfather was born in 1900 in Attenhoffen, Germany. He came to South Africa in the 1920s. My quest is to find out how and when? There is a story that he was a seaman who jumped ship in ...
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Ancestors in Lemberg (Lviv) and Czyczkow/y
My great-grandfather was born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine). However, I am unsure how to proceed to further back in the family tree. I have written to the archives in Lviv which hold the ...
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How to find information about a Dachau Internee?
I am posting here as I have no idea where to begin. And information that I have is limited and Im hoping that somebody can point me in the right direction.
My Great Uncle was a political prisoner ...
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Looking for my grandfather in Germany
I'm trying to locate my mums real father. She was born in Bad Tölz, Germany in 1947 and brought up by her maternal aunt & uncle. She came to Aust when she was 3 years old & was never told who ...
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What was the nature of record keeping for land ownership in the Pfalz prior to the introduction of the cadastre/Kataster system?
Some time in the 1840s the French cadastre system of recording land ownership for tax purposes was introduced into the Pfalz region of Bavaria. Records such as the one shown below identified parcels ...
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When did Abraham Decker (b. 1839) die?
Abraham Decker was born on 12 Sep 1839 in Gauersheim, in the Pfalz region of Bavaria. He emigrated to the United States in 1859. (Although he was born in the Pfalz and not in Hesse which is shown as ...
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Financial preconditions on Jews for marriage in early 19th century in Germany?
In 1822, Abraham Decker, age 24, married Rebecka Aron from Mettenheim, age 27 in Gauersheim, in the the Pfalz region of Germany. Their ages were given in the marriage announcements posted in the ...
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Dates in 19th century German records
Recently, I had some German (Pfalz, Bavaria) records from the ealry 1800s translated. The records contained dates that were specified in an unusual format, and I was curious to know what these were. ...
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What kind of information is in this record?
I am looking at civil records (BMD) from the late 18th-early 19th century from Morschheim the Pfalz region of (then) Bavaria, and I see several instances of images like this (top part shown):
It ...
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