r/germangenealogy

My 4GGF, Johann Hermann Bruns (1842-1918) is an illegitimate child of his mother, Friederike Bruns (1823-????). And I'm wondering if It's ever possible to find his father and who he was. The only birth record I have of Johann is this: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPNB-6QH1?lang=en, and I'm POSITIVE it doesn't even contain his name, and that maybe whoever tagged it accidentally chose the wrong one? I'm not sure.

Then the only other confirmed record of his mother is the immigration record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2757-PYF?lang=en and despite Johann being alive during this time, where he would roughly be about 10 years old, he is nowhere to be seen on that record, however, there does seem to be an 'Ernst Bruns' attached. Whoever he is, I am not sure. Whether it is the father or a brother to Friederike isn't known.

Despite the immigration, I cannot find where they moved afterwards, nor can I find a grave. Though I do know that Johann was buried along with his wife in Missouri: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23042447/john_h-bruns.

Any information helps, and thanks in advance.

Hello, I've hit a brick wall on Ancestry regarding my Great Grandmother. My Great Grandfather was Ferdinand Eberle Born on 1 Jun 1879 • in Altenstadt, Bayern, Germany. My Great Grandmother was Barbara Dillinger who I believe was born in Dillingen, I don't know the year. My Grandfather Johann Eberle was definitely born in Dillingen in 1909.

Family lore has it that in the lead-up to WWII she wrote my grandfather and, instead of telling him to come home and fight for Germany, she told him to stay in the US. The letter was intercepted and she was arrested, but because her Brother-in-law was a Bishop (Franz Xavier Eberle of Augsberg) she was sent to a convent.

Any help with where I could get started or who I could contact would be greatly appreciated.

Are Anna Katharinas parents mentioned in her marriage record? And the couples ages?

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61119/images/47890\_b370911-00296?queryId=3b34c70b-d7ec-486e-a52e-089cb482d493&usePUB=true&\_phsrc=zgb60&\_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=453966610

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I don't actually know if it's a marriage record.

I am trying to locate the grave of my great-grandfather, who served at the front in the soviet army. Archival records indicate he is buried in the village of Waldorf (other sources list it as Waltendorf or Walterodorf), presumably in the Silesia region. There are also references to his participation in battles for Waldau and Gross Neudorf. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these places on a map, nor am I certain of the correct transliteration of their names. Could anyone perhaps help?

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I need help reading one word in the fifth column. It says "Johann Bath, <???> Day worker from Klein Lunow". Any ideas what that third word is? Thanks.

I have an ancestor where his mother's name is Maria Christina Hanna Bath (from his baptism), which also appears on her marriage record. On my ancestor's baptism record, one of the surnames of the sponsors is Plugge. I believe I've found the right Maria's baptism record with mother's maiden name of Plugge. Age, place (small town), father's name, everything seems right except her baptism name was 'Anna Maria Friederica Bath.' Is it possible these are the same person and they just didn't remember all their given names?

I am struggling to make out the birth places. While this is written in German and was produced in Germany, the people involved are Estonians. AI seems to think the first person's birthplace is listed as "Perisaar".

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Hi! I’m trying to break through a very strange genealogy brick wall and wondered if anyone here might have access to records or a family tree that could help.

I’m looking for Johann Josef Wahl (also shows up as Johannes Josef Wahl), born 1899 on 19th of October in Treis, Germany (Treis an der Mosel, now Treis-Karden, Cochem-Zell).

What I know with reasonable certainty:
-Born 19 October 1899 in Treis, Germany.
-Moved to the Netherlands in 1936.
-Lived around Cuijk, St Agatha,North Brabant.
-Was a fruit grower.
-Married a Dutch woman and had children in the Netherlands (don’t have a specific date but he was married before 1924)
-His Cuijk family card explicitly identifies him as German.
-He remained German until his Dutch naturalisation after the war.
-The official 1956 naturalisation assessment states that during the war he was called up by Germany for military service, initially received a deferment, and then went into hiding in 1943.
-He was subsequently naturalised in the Netherlands in 1957.

The strange part is that I can find very little about Johann before WW2 or before moving to the Netherlands. I’ve searched both versions of his name, as well as records connected to his wife/wives, but I haven’t been able to find a convincing German birth/baptism record, marriage record, or other documentation identifying his parents.

His children are a bit easier to trace, so it’s not simply that the family left no records.

I also found a MyHeritage search result which appears to associate Johann with eight siblings, including people named Johann Wahl and Nikolaus Wahl, but I can’t see the underlying tree or source records without logging in. I’ve tried searching for those siblings independently, but there are far too many people with those names to identify them confidently.

I’m particularly interested in finding:
-Johann’s parents
-his 1899 birth/baptism record
-his siblings
-his marriage record(s)
-any information about his life in Germany before he moved to the Netherlands in 1936.

If anyone has him in a family tree or can point me toward the relevant Treis records, I’d be extremely grateful!

EDIT: So from asking around and doing as much digging as I can, most likely explanation as to why he moved the family from Germany to the Netherlands was economically motivated by trade policies affecting him as a fruit seller in Germany. Still working on getting a birth certificate for him.

Hi. I'm new and wanted to ask a simple question. My mom's father (my grandfather)came over to the USA from Chemnitz, Germany. He came with some of his family. Their last name was : Michael.

I am only able to go back to my 3x Great Grandfather Oscar J. Michael.

I'm having trouble finding information on him. Anyone know how I can go about finding more like his birth parents, etc?

German citizen Marie'le Adeline Rosenhammer (born 1925 September 12 to Johann Rosenhammer and Franciska (Engelbrecht) Rosenhammer) bore a child to American soldier Guy Sterling Allison about 1947. Her family claims that they were married; his family says otherwise. The child later moved to the US and spent the rest of his childhood living with his father.