Posts about Prussian genealogy research, including Posen, Pomerania, Silesia, and areas of Prussia once in Germany and now in Poland.

28 Apr 2016

Visiting Prussia for the Time-Traveling Genealogy Blog Party

By |28 Apr 2016|Genealogy Blog Party, Kirschstein, Prussian Genealogy|10 Comments

Visiting Prussia for the Time-Traveling Genealogy Blog Party is my entry in the latest blog party. Courtesy of Elizabeth O'Neal, here's this party's theme. You and The Doctor (of Doctor Who fame [who of course is [...]

9 Mar 2016

Translating Hamburg Passenger List Categories

By |9 Mar 2016|German Genealogy, Immigration Records, Prussian Genealogy, Translation|3 Comments

Need help translating Hamburg Passenger List categories? Is your German a little rusty or perhaps even non-existent, like mine? This post helps you decipher the categories of information that were recorded on the Hamburger Passagierlisten, [...]

19 Oct 2015

FamilySearch German Databases Updated

By |19 Oct 2015|Databases, Death Records, Digital Collections, Genealogy, German Genealogy, Marriage Records, Prussian Genealogy|3 Comments

An astute friend told me that the FamilySearch German Databases updated on 18 September 2015. Great news! If you haven't searched the three main German databases available at FamilySearch in a while, it's worth taking [...]

21 Jul 2015

Finding Missing German Marriage Records

By |21 Jul 2015|German Genealogy, Marriage Records, Prussian Genealogy|3 Comments

Today's post is about finding missing German marriage records. I've been reading German parish records pretty steadily for five years now, and encountered my share of records that take a lot of finding and [...]

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