This is remarkably, remarkably like the FTO episode where AGP commentates the coronation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOkPmzB1rGE
"Here comes the Queen. Resplendent. That's all, just resplendent."
"Where do they find the little boys?"
Hello all,
On the 27th of February, I submitted a request for my great-grandmother's Erweiterte Melderegisterauskunft to the Hamburg State Archives, at this link. The automatic reply told me that employees of the Archives would soon be in touch, but that processing times could total four weeks.
After nine weeks had passed, I tried to E-Mail them, and I wrote to an address someone else had mentioned in this forum (this other user had written to them there, and had soon gotten their documents after writing an E-Mail). This address was "lesesaal@bkm.hamburg.de".
From them, I had an automatic reply saying that they no longer accept E-Mails, and to send an order form to "digitalisierung-im-staatsarchiv@elbe-werkstaetten.de". So, I then wrote to that E-Mail address (I did not write an order form, however), explaining my situation, and asking who I should write to about my already submitted document request. They replied the same day, to tell me that they had not processed my request - as my request was processed through the online service - but they had forwarded my E-Mail to the relevant colleague, who would contact me.
It has now been another week since then, and I don't know whether I'm just supposed to wait, or what. I do not mind waiting if there are high processing times! - I am not meaning to complain. It's just that the original E-Mail said four weeks, and given that nearly three months have passed I'm not sure what to do.
Has anyone had experience dealing with the HSA recently, or does anyone know what I ought to do? Thank you!
Hello all,
Myself and my family are applying under StAG 5 - we are all British citizens presently, but my cousins are also Swedish citizens.
We are using our passports (certified copies made either by a solicitor or the post office) as our forms of identification, but my uncle is wondering whether my cousins ought to have certified copies of just their British passports, or of their Swedish passports too (or their Swedish passports instead, I suppose?). My guess is that we only need one form of identification each, as we aren't aiming to prove these particular non-German citizenships, merely aiming to identify ourselves - but I would very much appreciate some clarity from someone who knows for certain!
Thank you! :)
Hope I can share this here (apologies if not!!) - nothing's a worse turnoff than this, I don't think...
