This presentation focuses on Jewish genealogical sources in the northern German states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This covers the area from the Netherlands in the west to Denmark in the north and Poland in the east.
A special focus is placed on the extensive records from the Jewish communities in Hamburg, which still exist today, since due to the merger of Hamburg with the city of Altona in 1937, a large part of records from the surrounding states are also archived in the Hamburg State Archives and can be viewed here.
Foreign Jewish research in Northern Germany my name is Andrea Ben Schneider and in 2004 I founded my professional German genealogy research company called Beyond history and since then my team and I have helped more than 1 700 people from around the world gaining access to their roots and their family histories in
German territories so please take note of this code here you can use it to evaluate this presentation I will show the code once more at the end on the last slide so again today I’ll be talking about Jewish research in Northern Germany and since this is such a vast field with
Countless topics to address I can only scratch the surface of what is available and will focus basically on records during the 18th and 19th century and only touching the beginning of the 20th century and one cannot talk about anything related to genealogy in German countries without looking into the history and
Geography and there’s also important to remember that many records were lost due to fires to Wars and misguided archivists who willingly destroyed whole collections just out of reasons of incorrect evaluation as it just recently fairly recently a few years ago happened at the Hamburg State archive when a whole collection of the death
Notification records were destroyed for good so and um so when you see look into the history you will see that the records very greatly also depending on when a person lived and whether person lived and different types of records are kept at different places so some records may
Be located at the state archive others may be located in city or District level archives or even in museums and I would be talking about records that pertain strictly to Jewish residents or Jewish people as well as general records that cover all kinds of groups of regardless of the ethnic
Racial or other backgrounds religious backgrounds I’ll be showing also different kinds of Records so that you can see what is available at the different areas and during the course of the presentations I will show you maps to identify the areas where that I’m talking about So today we’re talking about Northern
Germany so this covers the current German states of lower Saxony which used to be the kingdom of Hanover the duchies of oilberg and actually Branch bike the three cities of Bremen Hamburg and back then it was the free city of lubric and the current territory of schlesberg
Holstein as well as just the old Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg shriverin and meglinburg streets also there is a handout available so you will find more information website literatures and other information and sources where you may find more information so please refer to that and the first records of Jews in
Northern Germany basically begin in the 12th and 1300s and usually they settled until the mid 1500s when they were blamed for the black death and hence chased away but they did come back later on and that’s and and generated in their lives and their their experience that generated the records that I’m talking
About today so the first kind of political entity of like a combination of several different states was in the founded in the Middle Ages and lasted until 1806 which was the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations it’s um lasted until it’s dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars so most
Of Europe was occupied by Napoleon from 1806 until 1815 so you’ll see a map of like this whole area was all under French rule so and while this had a big influence on everyone who lived in that areas particularly since Napoleon introduced also the French model and
French laws there so it meant all of a sudden equal opportunities for all Jews who lived in these occupied territories unfortunately most of them were stripped after the defeat of Napoleon again in 1815 or even earlier so the French occupation um started or was the beginning or the
End of the French occupation was the the beginning of the German Federation which lasted until 1866 and it was a loose Confederation of the 35 different states four and four free cities which were formed after the defeat of Napoleon and you have to understand that you see all these different kingdoms you see
Pressure and even Austria was was part of this confederation and you see like there was not one common Emperor or ruler there was not one Parliament no Chancellor no common army or navy not even a common capital in that time also no common currency no common Customs
Union and not even uniform weights and measures so every state every free City still had their own rules and regulations and that also applied to the system of record keeping this German Confederation was was followed by a North German Confederation which only lasted from 1867 until 170 won and which was basically under
Anything north of the mine river which is like the Frankfurt area was under Prussian leadership and this then went into the German Empire which was founded on January 1st 1871 and lasted until the end of the first world war so you see any everything that’s green on here
That’s what belonged to the kingdom of pressure and these yellow areas which were not really Prussian then but um they also went into the German Empire so out of the former 35 individual states you know all of a sudden only had 22 monarchs and three free cities and they all agreed to
Come together and join in Alliance in form of this German Empire and to give you an idea the German Empire had about the size of the states of California in New York combined but the area that I’m actually talking about today is what we is considered
Northern Germany today so to give you an idea we have the North Sea here the Netherlands so everything in this lighter greenish and is what used to be the kingdom of Hanover with the duchy of Oldenburg and also the bluish areas are the duchy of Brunswick you have then the
City of Bremen is here you have the city of Hamburg and the City of lubric Then followed by the duchy of Holstein the duchy of schleswig which all were like tied together with the Danish Kingdom and part of it kind of Since since the Danish King was also always the Duke of
Both Holstein and schleswig so and last but not least we have the areas of Magnum Berkshire and mecklenburg’s trailers just like for you to identify Berlin is down here but we will not cover Berlin as it was part of Prussia so um again let me refer you to the handout
Um it is usually it depends a little bit on on that some documents are classified at a certain archive also based on the territory location at where the time when a document was generated and so then it also could be based on the time the territory it belongs to today so
Um you will see like particularly with Branch bike or with with Oldenburg you still have separate archives there today although today it all belongs to lower Saxon for example so it’s a little bit difficult um we have governmental State archives that usually hold records of more general interest with with regard to
Governmental bodies finances Justice Financial claims military Etc the municipal archives or district and and City archives usually hold records that are more of a regional interest and may include actual files and Records about persons for example civil certificate citizenship records Etc last but not least we do have
Central archives and I’m aware that I’m talking about Jewish records however in many areas particular rural areas when there was no Jewish congregation it was still the duty of the local Pastor or priest to record Jewish births marriages or deaths and you also have those persons converting from one religion to
The other and so that’s why I do want to mention the Christian Church records also always a good address to go if you have any questions look for the local genealogy Association they are always very helpful and to point out how difficult it may be to find records for just one place my
Favorite example is the town of Altona and ituna is just outside of the city of Hamburg so this is where the city of Hamburg is located just outside in front of its dollar basically to the left you have ituna Alto now used to be in um the biggest city of the duchy of
Holstein and there I think I found seven eight on them and probably at 10 different archives where you can find records about Altona so let’s begin and I’ll turn out there is a city archive so you do find records at the city archive since 1937 Arjuna became part of the
City-state of Hamburg so many many records including the Jewish records of Altona are now located at the state Archive of Hamburg since it was also um again I mentioned it was part of the duchy of Holstein so now the responsible State archive for this area is located
In schleswig so there are Jewish records there as well for example but you do find records pertaining to Altona in schleswig and since it was also in combination with the Danish Kingdom in Copenhagen at this data if you will find records about Altona as well then there was this time from
Um 1867 on when Altona was actually Prussian so here in Berlin you may find records at the secret Archive of Prussian cultural heritage in Berlin and then of course then you have also copies of the Jewish records from Altona at the state archive in Leipzig I will talk
About that a little bit more and since most of it actually all of the records pertaining to the Jewish Community communities and congregations of Hamburg and and Alterna are also not just available at the Hamburg State archive but they also can be found at the central archive for the history of
Jewish people in Jerusalem sorry my map wasn’t big enough to fit a Jerusalem on there too otherwise we never would have told aljuna on this map again so again it’s like if you’re looking at any sources It’s always important to see who recorded it and when was it recorded
So was it recorded when the person was still alive and was the person possibly present or was it done many years afterwards so so that will give you an idea of how accurate that the information in the record maybe and then also did you check in original Source or
Was it just like someone’s account of something that happened and also last but not least it’s always good to verify if a source is complete maybe a few years I’m missing maybe if your pages are missing and just because you cannot find a certain person in a set of record
Or in a collection doesn’t mean the person never lived there it just may mean the person’s records are on these missing pages most of the records Jewish records are written in Hebrew Yiddish or German I’m not going into these traditional records like um that I mentioned here because like
These were usually more in in like a private possession in their families or or stayed with the owners or the persons who created it with obviously not for the cemeteries but um I talk about sources books materials that are available at at archives today so basically the sources for Jewish
Genealogy start in the 17th and 1800s um it was again I mentioned it before that priests and pastors were asked to keep registers of Jewish birth marriages and deaths which in most cases did they did not keep so they were supposed to but they didn’t and as long as Jews were not citizen
Um there was not really like an importance attached to them being recorded in registers like and and so so really it just like with a change of the French Revolution and and also the Emancipation coming from from the the impression times it was that that’s that’s a more interest came and and it
Was more a and with the growth of the Jewish population like the local governments became more interested in recording their Jewish residents you know they also traveled a lot like Jews were known for traveling a lot and so that’s why hardly any personal records exist because like they only
Kept their documents and when you’re traveling you don’t want to schlep around so many things and so they were um told to keep most of the records for three years after an event was recorded and so afterwards they many records were just disposed of and so
Um and it was was more and more communities were open um and opened the right for residents for Jewish persons and and so they had to buy certain rights to to either travel through come back and and respectively so so they had these escort letters or they had the concession respectively
Protection letters and um these were basically it like for for the local governments it meant an additional source of income yet today it still is a great source to get such early records with names sometimes with dates you can pinpoint the local residences of of your ancestors however these protection letters only
Lasted through 1812 basically and and which was then as a result of the invasion by Napoleon that this was discontinued because like again all of a sudden Jews had equal rights and and so this while many of these documents were not necessary anymore so here are some examples of of Jewish
Civil records and they again they start at different places they start at different times this is an example of a birth record from the Jewish congregation into the string which is nowadays located in lower Saxony and these records are located at the state archive in Hanover here’s another example of of like a
Birth register from medlinburg located at the state archive in in swelling and yeah and here’s an example of what the the marriage certificate or marriage civil marriage registers of the Jewish congregation Hamburg looked like and this is an example of a death record or from the Jewish congregation and but
Per month also located in lower Saxony and you see this really shabby quality and this really dark and difficult to read and make out um copy and that has to do with the fact that numerous registers relating to Jews were confiscated by the Rex family office in
The Nazi area and they were filmed by a company called gardenman so which will secure them the original films together with the original records actually and registers were lost during the war however the government company they made copies of these firms and these films then were later on sold or
Sold to certain archives they were also I don’t know how how to what extent they were freely handed over to archives and some of the places include the state archive in in Leipzig um um it includes the the Heidelberg Central Archives of Jews the Frankfurt Jewish Museum I know the state archives
And in stuttgarts got those from the areas of wurtenberg Baden and Horn Solon and and so these films also for for those congregations in lower Saxony former Kingdom of Hanover they ended up at the state archive in in Hanover and let me see show it again this is now a
Reprint like from these films since the original registers were lost this is now a reprint from these gartermen films and so that’s it shows the poor quality of it and when we’re looking at lower Saxony today it’s like basically everything that’s yellow in here that used to be the kingdom of Hanover and
Then you have the duchy of Oldenburg and the blue spots here are the duchy of um um Brunswick so lower Saxony in itself you saw what a big territory it is and and so it’s it’s it’s really the it there were like also many different districts and areas and
So a lot of different historical events and and different stories around like where which Jewish congregations were formed so let me just now give you an average of that the first um in the Kingdom of Hanover the first Jews arrived approximately in the mid 1200s in the city of Hanover the capital
Of the Kingdom the first Jew arrived in 1303 and settlement began in the mid 1300s then again it’s like I mentioned they were chased away they were blamed for for certain things like the black death and it took until the 1600s that Jewish settlements took up again in in these areas
And since the early 1700s there are then the first listings of Jews Like core Jews for the kingdom of Hanover and um most of the records I mentioned that before it’s like it was like also important for the Jewish history and hence also for the records that exist
Today is that there was a conceptorium for Jewish religion in 1808 which really gave special rights about like the settlement about the education about the religion and the Jewish civil records became mandatory as of June 1844 and these again these these like reprints of these films are available for at Hanover
At the state archive and um this also not just the the birth marriage and death records as a short example before but it has also the family books of the stage rabbi and other um it’s also like other records for the area of um nowadays lower Saxony are also
Located at the state archive and Leipzig or there are more films available and also make sure to check the other sub State archives in in our way Etc so here’s an example of what a family book written by the rabbi looks like um so that was for the town of Patterson
And you have the names and the wife and then all the children and Deborah States so that’s a very nice source in the former dachio Brown schweig there was like the first shoes lived there from around 1280 until 1546 um then in the 1700s you’ll see the first family seven arrived 1707 again
And then by the mid 1700s there were 30 families already and you see that they started taking a more importance or like like also the the group the population grew and so as of 1771 for example their printed forms for these protection letters that I mentioned before
Um again they had freedom under Napoleon which they were stripped off again after his defeat from 1827 on it was compulsory um to educate Jewish children and since 1832 Jews had the right to vote and take public offices the records like Jewish and other civil and other Jewish records
Are located at the state archive involving bottle and covered this period and of course like when I say such a time frame will mentioned such a time frame you have to understand that these records overlap there may be some gaps in the years but just like to give you a
Rough idea of like the time frame where there is a chance to find records and also for this area again there are more records available in in Leipzig I’m not sure since I always went to the local archives I have to admit that I did not
Look at the records in Lansing yet so I don’t know if they are identical or if they may differ I have we have the former duchy of Oldenburg also which is similar to Hanover has both a city by this name and then the duchy by this name and so the
The first Jews arrived in the 1330s and then came back again in the late 1600s and um in Oldenburg City you had in 1705 you had one family and by 18 the mid-1850s you had 104 Jews living there any County you see there were even like
The population was a lot bigger so the records are located at the state archive in Oldenburg um here you see like the years that are available they’re also lists with the graves of the big Jewish cemeteries and um I show you some of these records like
This is for example this is a general register of all established Jews living in the in the duchy of oilenberg in 1828 so you find these records too this is one of the reasons why I mentioned also the Christian church books because here’s a great example of a Isaac Salomon called Muller
Um who then con converted to um become Lutheran and he changed his name to Wilson Georg Isaac Salomon mullum and what is interesting to see here also is that he was a sergeant of the sixth company of the first regiment so that means you will see that Jews
Also served in the military so it’s always good to check also with military records like local if that’s also a possibility where you may find more information about your ancestors and before I forget to mention that before we get to Bremen um it is actually also on top of just
Looking for Jewel records of Jewish congregations like the general civil records it’s also always important to see and look at the online finding as and actually ask on search for your ancestors by names because at most of these archives there are also many many individual files if there were lawsuits
If there were a special increase or anything about related to business or Testaments or other records that it might exist where you have a good chance to actually find personal records sorted by La by the names of your ancestors in these are in these archives that I mentioned here today
So with Bremen it was actually interesting bring me as you may know it as this big Immigration Court but yet um the first Jew that was ever mentioned in brim was actually a Jewish advisor to to one of the rulers in the year 1063 they came from the Belgium from London
And Belgium so but but really it’s like the first real then documented Jewish life was really in as late as the 14th century and um basically the the um Bremen did not want to have Jews within and to take up up settlement within Bremen and so that’s why they
They settled outside of Bremen and hashted and the Jewish congregation in Bremen was founded as late as 1803 and you were and like if you listen to my presentation about the immigration also you will see like you see in 1850 only 20 Jewish families lived in Bremen and
That’s why the port of criminal was never so important for Jewish families or Jews to to use as an immigration Port so that’s why Hamrick was always more popular because the population the government everyone in Germany was was much more open and welcoming two Jews
There and you see it’s like from 1818 so after Napoleon left until 1849 no Jews were allowed in Bremen and so that’s why you only find very little records there and actually there’s a very very um active local genealogy and Society it’s called demos and they have a database with all
Records from from Bremen and surrounding areas so do check their their website and this database if you have ancestors from that area of course there’s also mentioned that there is there are records also at the central Archives of the history of Jewish people persons in Jerusalem as well as in yet Russia
So now we’re coming to the next free City Hamburg my hometown and um when I’m talking this is a map from 1912 when I’m talking about Hamburg you will also hear me talk about so all time Old Town Hamburg like what do you own Center of Hamburg was it really just
This small area and when you see this big port and Elbow River you can understand why this was a big immigration Port so and now when we talk about the Jewish congregation in Hamburg we also have to mention not just Hamburg and then other areas that were later added to it
But we also have to talk about one speak which used to be in Holstein but most importantly and you guessed it and mentioned it before oil tuna right right here outside of the former city border this is Altona again um in basically the in the um this is it’s like these three
Congregations have very close ties from the very beginning and um and and that is that in so the first Jews that arrived in Hamburg were in the late 1500s and they were surprotic Jews coming from Portugal the Ashkenazi Jews were first and initially employees of these sulphatic
Jews and then they were sent away and they settled in Altona so so whenever there was like anything like an issue going on in Hamburg in Altona they were much more liberal now we’re talking about this in a second so it’s like however then in 1671 the dragon mind the
Three Community or three congregations was founded con um consisting out of the congregations of Altona Hamburg and Von speak and this existed until 1812 you guessed it Napoleon was there again and for the city of Hamburg we have this um oh yeah important also before I forget this the chief Rabbi of this
Association had his seat in Altona and he also exercised jurisdiction over the Jews and the duchy of Holstein so you see it like it was quite like had quite an important position there in 1812 when when this combined congregation basically um was was was basically discontinued
Um there were 6 300 members in this congregation and that was the biggest congregation in Germany at that time and in the 1850s there were over 10 000 members in the Jewish congregation so and um basically what is also important to know about this is like all the records
We are in a very very lucky position to have a vast collection of Jewish records covering Altona Hamburg one speak even Harbor that whole area and um basically what happened was that in the after the second world war the archives in in Jerusalem came and approached local archives in Germany and
Asked them to hand over any Jewish records that they still had and it was actually that the the archivist in in Hamburg refused to do that and so it went to a trial and and in the 50 1950s the settlement was reached and so basically the collection of Hamburg was
Split in half and half of The Originals stayed in Hamburg and half of The Originals was given to Jerusalem however both parties agreed to take make microphone copies of their original set of records and these were exchanged so that both archives basically have the complete set of records of this
Collection however one has them half an original and the other half is on the microphone and for the last few years there was also a big effort to digitize all of these images I heard that there are plans to actually put them on the Internet and make them
Available however anything at the state archive in Hamburg does take its takes its time and and so it will certainly probably both still quite another time a few years possibly until this actually will happen so um you had now enough said about this we do
Have again I mentioned we have a lot of Records there it’s it’s really it’s amazing and um we have super records of the Ashkenazi communion communities starting in 1769 going through 1870 74 when it was the beginning of the official Civil certificates that were started in the German Empire and that
Were started for any person living in Germany regardless of their original belief Faith anything so and this is a product for us only like only the births exist but therefore they begin in 1749 they go through 1900. we have congregation membership list we have tax lists we have Testaments marriage
Contracts divorces lists of foreigners you you like even records about interim marriages and the children so so you see they there’s a lot to be found there and even in Leipzig again you find some records as I mentioned before I have never looked at them because if I have
The originals right in front of my drawer step then I don’t need to travel to lexico to go there so here are some examples of the different birth records for example so this is like the first records where it’s like from the 1769 onwards here you have
Hebrew birth records and these are later like I showed you the marriage record before so these are later like these structured organized printed um birth registers going into the 1860s I mentioned Alterna again it’s like the Danish King was also the Duke of omstein and of schlesberg and that goes back to
The 1460s already and Altona was the biggest city in hoylstein at times it was after Copenhagen actually the second biggest city in the Danish territory you had the first Jews documented in 1584 and since 1640 the Danish King really granted liberal living conditions and that’s made it that’s why ituna was
Very popular also by Jews in hamburg’s then during more challenging times there in 1835 however there were still then only 2 000 members in this alternate congregation I mentioned the numbers in um for Hamburg again the Civil Records begin for Alterna itself they begin in the 1795 and they go through 1937 they
Are located at the state archive in 1937 again as the cutoff date because that was the year when Altona once big hard work and other areas became part of of the city-state of Hamburg and with the again the alternative Rabbi um being responsible for ceremonial and several cases and and having the
Jurisdiction over actually speak holstein’s communities you will also find records about others should I speak Holstein communities here in within the collection of the Altona um Jewish Community like their reports for example of the Altona as the the chief Rabbi visiting Russian pows during World War One in camps that
Were imprisoned with camps that that were located in Shrewsbury College then so you can find names there too so um we do have great cemeteries also so it’s like in Hamburg we have the biggest Park Cemetery from all of Europe and while usually like with Christian Graves
Um our graves are only rented for for 25 years and then the stones are taking down and the the grave ceases to exist we know that Jewish cemeteries like this everything lasts for eternity and um originally there were 11 cemeteries in Hamburg um the biggest one is still many of the
Old Graves from some of these 11 cemeteries were moved to the Jewish cemetery section in old stuff you can see them there other cemeteries in Hamburg today are located in Altona Banfield one speak Hamburg and there’s even an orthodox Cemetery smaller one in London when you go to the cemetery in
Ulster this gentleman who unfortunately retired he was the nicest guy and he he really he he loved his job he was was responsible for the whole Jewish cemetery and old stuff and so he had this handwritten indexes and then it gave you the grave number and then he
Had this great map on the wall where he would then identify the location of the the gravens and some of the headstones are just like grown over in in it’s difficult to find so but but he was really it was really great to have him by your side if you
Wanted to visit any of he was actually the keeper of all the keys to all of the Jewish cemeteries so again unfortunately he retired a few years ago so much it couldn’t have been any nicer schless already you need to speed up a little bit here okay great
Um there were several Jewish communities congregations I see them there um basically it’s civil equality in the duchy of schlesberg only came into 1854 and in Houston it took until 1863 and only under the Prussian rule like really really equal rights between Jews and non-jews um took as late as 1869.
One of the big um usually like some of the records are located at the state archive in schlesberg and they covered these years 1850 through 1941. some records are located again in Leipzig covering another period some I mentioned them at the state archive in Hamburg not so much civil
Records but more like these records when when Jews had to deal with the chief Rabbi from Altona and an invaluable Source really is the local city archives I will show some examples from friedrichstat which had a very big Jewish community and I showed some examples in the set and then last but
Not least just fairly recently I was made aware of a Danish Jewish database and since there was like since so many of the the jewels were also Merchants particularly in that area with the Baltic Sea and the North Sea it’s like surrounded and you had Hamburg and you
Had alternate with ports and you had lubric as a merchant City so so there were close ties to Copenhagen and that’s why you do find many also like Jews who actually lived in Germany in this database this database is only you have to pay for the membership but it is very interesting
Here is an example of what the birth records looked like there um you have here you have family files where you usually have done you have the husband you have the wife you have his birth information her birth information here your night then you even the the
Name of of the wife’s father usually on the back you would list any children that they have since she’s because and again was part of Denmark you also will find the Danish Census records there so that’s really cool and so here’s an example what in a sense of in 1845 the
Jewish family that lived in streetfish excuse me so again not in every part of Germany were Census records taking so that’s again to be kept in mind it was forbidden for Jews to reside within the city wall it’s and and that’s the basically was the case until the
1650s when the first Jews came from Poland and Lithuania and they arrived and settled in that area however again still outside of the city gates in the nearby town of moisley moisling was then part of Denmark and had no restrictions as per the liberal Danish rights and the
Um their first synagogue there was built in 1702 and and as late as as like really in 1812. again in Napoleon you guessed it that was when the first congregation in Lube it was in the city Awards was founded they had to leave they were asked to
Live again after Napoleon left and only as late as the 1848 is when they were allowed to return in 1857 a total of 522 Jews lived in lubric you see the Navy the dates of the records that are available there was a conscription of Jews until military as
Of 1831 there are the military records again you have citizens rights begin in 1848 and more settled then in 1852 you have address books Census records and civil records to look at and you can find them at the wonderful City archival interestingly enough there were also some digitized records from lubric at
The central Archive of Jews in Heidelberg such as this birth record coming covering the birth from 1848 until 1888. you have incoming persons list from 1819 until 1901. it’s my understanding that this collection is part of something that they found at the state archive in Hamburg and since it
Didn’t pertain to Hamburg anymore it was then eventually handed over to the central Archive of Jews in Heidelberg Mecklenburg mecklenburg’s free um basically maglinburg you’ll see it were like two different like it used to be like one dutchie in Australia’s Mecklenburg streetlets became independent in 1701.
Um Jews lived there until 1492 and then returned in the 1660s again interestingly enough the hansiatic cities of rostock and visma banned Jews up until as late as 1867 in Mecklenburg Sweden around 1800 there were 300 Jews living and um in mecklenberg’s trailers you had this protected system going from 1704 I
Think when the First shows arrived lasting as long as 1852. the Civil Records begin in 1813 there’s Napoleon and they are located at the state archive in shreveen also make sure to check with local city archives here are a few lists examples you have the protected Jews in making number
Training going up until for the first half of the 19th century you have protection fee payments in MythBusters until 1823 with the name first name last name and when the payment was made and um you have last name adoption list for mecklenburg’s trailers after 1814 and
Um now we come to again to this Con so so this is like it now we come to the general Parts other regions other archives where you may find records so look at the state archives in German you look at the also local city archives or District archives if it was at all
Prussian check the secret Prussian State archive in Berlin there’s a central New dicom in Berlin where they have now also a big archive I mean it’s mainly for Jews who lived in the area of Berlin Brandenburg however they always were ties to other areas so it’s worth asking
Them I mentioned the central archive for the research of the history of Jews in Germany in Heidelberg before their local Jewish museums rensburg foreign Frankfurt Munich Berlin there’s a central archives for the history of the Jewish people in yeruza Jerusalem as well as yet you know Jewish
As well as family search or not to forget my Heritage and um ancestry also as other possible sources and if it comes to records it’s like like if there are no civil records in that area there still may be other records that may be of interest for you
To look at so look at the local address and phone books you may find your ancestors they their business is listed there may be listings clippings in in newspapers about any events that pertain to them you have um in the in the 19th century usually the registration of foreigners began and
And like this is an example of the resident registration cards in Hamburg that began in 1892 and here you have like yeah I have my Samuel Lyon pinkers who came from lubric and then he later and then you have all his information where he came from his profession his
Children where they were born and he moved to Copenhagen so he is the person where I got a lot of information both in lubric and in Humbert because he married a girl from from alternate they had children a number and last but not least he moved to Copenhagen this Danish
Database I mentioned I around him again so um when they were allowed to get become citizens you may find citizenship application files you may find passport applications usually when they traveled around for business for example um there are commercial registers this is it’s like about a company that was
Founded and you have even personal information when the owner of the business died and when it was passed on to his son you find these like vital records in in this kind of Records I mentioned military records a couple of times so this is not a Jewish example
But but do look at military records you may find them here and um you have court illegal documents such as this this Testament so there again you have like also children other relatives listed in there so and with this I finally got into the conclusion of my presentation
If you have um any questions feel free to contact me here these are my contact information and otherwise I promised you here’s the code again to um evaluate my presentation I hope you liked it and enjoyed it and learned a little bit and I’m looking forward to
Hearing you and maybe seeing you one day thank you bye bye
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Very useful research. Thank you for the resources