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From: Pr12 <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Genealogy unimportant to some relatives.
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 14:06:53 -0600
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Hi,
I also have some papers from my husband's uncle who was a Bavarian soldier
killed in WW II. The family kept the documents which were certified
copies of birth, death and marriage records going back 5 generations.
They also listed place of birth, death and marriage plus religion and
occupation. The information was transcribed into a booklet the size
of a passport and it was called an Ahnenpasse (I think that's spelled right)
and was to be with the person at all times. It was the mother load of
genealogy on my husband's family.

wrote:

> In a message dated 3/31/01 12:52:22 PM, writes:
>
> << they had to carry documents their genealogy to prove they were not of
> Jewish descent. Has anyone every heard of anything like that? >>
>
> Yes, I have papers that were my father's. There is a great deal of
> information in them regarding birth, baptism, and wedding dates and names. My
> father was a mounted policeman...a gendarme, and those papers were a
> necessary part of his entry not only into the academy, but into the force.
> As shocking as it seems now that people had to prove their heritage, it was
> the life they lead.
>
> Margo Koroknay-Palicz
> Holland, Michigan

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