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=== Mystery Places === | === Mystery Places === | ||
Identifying German places of origin recorded in U.S. records can be challenging. Often checking a gazetteer or referernce book is not enough. It may be neccessary to study the history of a particular region and follow up on boundary- and place name changes. | Identifying German places of origin recorded in U.S. records can be challenging. Often checking a gazetteer or referernce book is not enough. It may be neccessary to study the history of a particular region and follow up on boundary- and place name changes. | ||
==== Examples of decoded mystery place names ==== | |||
*Maberschan = Mappershain next door to Kemel, Hessen-Nassau. [soft versus hard consonants, ending contracted] | |||
*Noerle = Noerdlingen in Swabia [place name abbreviated in dialect] | |||
*Baldange {from a U.S. citizenship record] = Buedingen in the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt [... dange" is a common French form of the German ending "...dingen"] | |||
*Chattenbergen = Scharrachbergheim near Westhoffen, Alsace [Note the contraction "...bergen" vs - "...bergheim" | |||
*Stoppen in Holstein [U.S. church marriage record] = Stubben, Kreis Stormarn | |||
*Sanktmagelsdohn Holstein [parent's origin listed in a child's U.S. baptismal record] = Sankt Michaelisdonn, Holstein | |||
*Weilinstadt [U.S. passenger list] = Weil (der Stadt) in Wuerttemberg | |||
*Giengenheim, Hessen-D., or Gingenheim, Hessen [U.S. civil marriage record]= Gau-Koengernheim, Hessen [the verse-sort index suggested Koengerngeim. There were two- A seearch in the online telephone book for the known surnames suggestedGau-Koengernheim was the correct place, which was proventhrough subsequent research.] | |||
*Giessingen [death record in Alsace] = Guinsing, Bettviller, Moselle | |||