Germany Compiled Genealogies: Difference between revisions

Germany Compiled Genealogies (view source)

Revision as of 21:42, 8 May 2019

51 bytes removed , 8 May 2019

m

→‎Village Lineage Books

VisualWikitext

Hanna5974

318,531

edits

@@ Line 74: / Line 74: @@
 === Village Lineage Books  ===
-For some German towns,&nbsp;locally compiled genealogy&nbsp;books are available.&nbsp; Such&nbsp;books may be called Ortssippenbücher,&nbsp;Dorfssippenbücher&nbsp;or Ortsfamilienbücher.&nbsp;These&nbsp;lineage books&nbsp;are extracted from parish registers.&nbsp; They give extensive genealogical information on almost all of the town's inhabitants, linked together as families. They usually begin with the earliest town records in the 1500s or 1600s and continue up to the twentieth century. They typically list families in roughly alphabetical order, with a surname index and place index at the end. They frequently have appendixes listing war casualties, mayors, pastors, refugees, or veterans.
+An Ortssippenbuch (town lineage book) or Ortsfamilienbuch (town family book) includes birth, marriage, and death data for all persons found in the local records during a specified time period, compiled into families. Sources may include the local parish registers, civil registration records, court and land records, and sometimes published material. In the printed book, this information is then arranged in a standardized format, usually alphabetically by surname and chronologically by marriage date. Family entries are identified by sequential numbers. Town genealogies are known by various names, including “town lineage book,” “local heritage book,” “one-place-studies,” “Ortssippenbuch (OSB),” and “Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB).” This article will use the term “town genealogy” and the abbreviation OFB when referring to compilations that include all or a large part of a town’s population. "Häuserbűcher," or house books, are a variation on town genealogies. These books, which are usually arranged by house number or address, list successive home owners and their families. Renters and others who did not own their homes may not be included in such a compilation. A few house books have also been published on the Internet.
-A village lineage book is perhaps the&nbsp;best secondary genealogical&nbsp;source that can be found.&nbsp;If one's ancestors lived in a parish with a&nbsp;village lineage book, one may&nbsp;trace one's&nbsp;family back many generations. Since the books contain compiled information, the information should be verified&nbsp;whenever possible by referring to microfilmed parish records.
-The village lineage&nbsp;books usually list only families whose members were born or married or died in the parish. Some regions of Germany have more than others; Baden, Württemberg, and Hannover have the most.
 A list of on-line Ortssippenbücher (fully searchable online) available on www.genealogy.net is found at:[http://www.online-ofb.de/ www.online-ofb.de/]&nbsp; In addition, other websites also host compiled genealogies. Some regional genealogical societies have published town genealogies. For example, ''Die Maus'', the Bremen area genealogical society, includes about thirty town genealogy databases on its website http://www.genealogy.net/vereine/maus/datenbanken/index.php?lang=de .
@@ Line 94: / Line 89: @@
 Village lineage books are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
 GERMANY, [STATE], [TOWN] - GENEALOGY
 === Genealogical Collections  ===