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==After You Found the Name of Your Ancestors' Town in Germany== | ==After You Found the Name of Your Ancestors' Town in Germany== | ||
*So you went through a variety of United States records, and finally found the name of the town in Germany where your ancestors lived. Hopefully, along the way, you saw other clues to the region of that town, such as Saxony, Prussia, Hessen, or Bavaria. Sometimes those regions are easier to find than the town, and they can be important if there are several towns of the same name. But your job might not be done. | *So you went through a variety of United States records, and finally found the name of the town in Germany where your ancestors lived. Hopefully, along the way, you saw other clues to the region of that town, such as Saxony, Prussia, Hessen, or Bavaria. Sometimes those regions are easier to find than the town, and they can be important if there are several towns of the same name. But your job might not be done. | ||
*The town name you found, might be a small village that had no church of its own. You might have to figure out where the people in that village went to a nearby larger town to attend a Catholic church, and yet a different town if they were Lutheran. There might be a Catholic church in the village, but the Lutherans had to travel to another town. *Your town might have had a civil registration office of its own, or it was too small and had to report births, marriages, and deaths in another closeby town. Your town might have had its own civil registrar until the 1980's when all the offices were consolidated into fewer offices to save money. So to continue with your research, there is a little more detective work you need to do about your town. | <br> | ||
*The town name you found, might be a small village that had no church of its own. You might have to figure out where the people in that village went to a nearby larger town to attend a Catholic church, and yet a different town if they were Lutheran. There might be a Catholic church in the village, but the Lutherans had to travel to another town. <br> | |||
*Your town might have had a civil registration office of its own, or it was too small and had to report births, marriages, and deaths in another closeby town. Your town might have had its own civil registrar until the 1980's when all the offices were consolidated into fewer offices to save money. So to continue with your research, there is a little more detective work you need to do about your town. | |||
==Important Questions== | ==Important Questions== | ||