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Subject: Re: [Ger-Gen] Traceing German Ancestors
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:27:26 EDT

I have been doing genealogy research for about 14 years. Three years ago I
retired and do it extensively now that I have the time. I have been working
over the years on 7 or 8 of my German Surnames. I knew where they came from, so
it was just a matter of obtaining the LDS microfilm from the Evangelische
churches in those villages and looking at the records. On about 3 or 4 of my
families I have traced them back to when the churches began to keep records about
the mid 1500's. Several other familles I am waiting to obtain other
Evangelische church records and as soon as I can view them I should be able to take
them back to when the church began keeping written records. My families all
came from the Wuerttemberg area, within a 100-200 mile radius an hour south of
Stuttgart. My other family came from northern Germany from the town of Schale,
and that research was done by someone else. However, I don't have any paper
documentation on that family but eventually I'll want to do my own research and
get paper copies. I started on my paternal lines, but in the last couple of
months I have gone to my maternal lines too. I think the hardest part of
research, other than finding out the town your ancestor came from was learning to
read the old German Script. It was difficult at first, but eventually you will
recognize your surnames and they will seem to just pop off the page at you.
Best of luck in your research.

Karen JENTER
Michigan
researching German surnames of: Jenter, Schaible/Schaiblin, Kuebler, Alber,
Feldkamp, Mayer, Bohnet, Grossmann

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