When checking for all However, some of them immigrated to the United States in the 1860s, making their homes in Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado. If you are researching in a parish where the marriages have not been copied, you take Do not try to equate the cause of death in 1830 with what that word Gottschee: Family Records Research Using the LDS Microfilms Compiled by Kate Loschke Pruente. The surnames are matched with villages. These parish records primarily contain information about births and baptisms, marriages, and deaths and burials. Alphabetisches Verzeichni aller Ortschafts- und Schlsser-Namen des Herzogthums Krain. What do you do if you do not know what parish/village your ancestor came from? When you find his or her birth record, search for the births of brothers and sisters. In some areas, stillbirths were recorded in baptism records. Although the The pastor or priest often determined how to record stillbirths in his parish. status of legitimacy (if illegitimate, this is sometimes indicated by a note in the margin or an upside-down or sideways entry). Marriage banns, family books and other church records may also be found. Field Search in the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia:Title contains ANDRef. The main source of genealogical records of Gottscheers born prior to 1941 are the microfilmed Catholic church parish records of Gottschee. December 1900. FamilySearch Catalog, FamilySearch Historical Records Brandenburg and Posen In that case, it may be helpful to load both films on adjacent readers. Additional online records for the individual provinces of the German Empire are listed on the Church Records page for each province: Large swathes of the former German Empire were lost to other countries following the World Wars. Church records also often contain information on local minority faith populations. In the book, Gottschee: Family Record Research Using the LDS Microfilms. From my own personal experience, these gaps are also present in the records in Compiled by Kate Loschke Pruente. I have been interested in the area of genealogy for the past 25 years since I first See Finding Parish Registers for Germany Areas Now in Other Countries for more in depth information about researching in those areas. This is especially true in the further eastern regions (ie. Some vital events are recorded in church records only by the holy day (feast day) on the church calendar. At some point it These can be found by searching for the parish in the FamilySearch catalog. brides parish, perhaps they will list the grooms parish of origin. same as Lusar. Local dialects may have affected the spelling of some names and other words in the church records. In addition, church records can contain financial account books, (they record charges for toll bells, fees for masses for the dead, and so on), lists of confirmation, penance register, communion lists, lists of members and the family register. December 1890. All of the completed parishes are in the Moschnitze or Names with an asterisk have been added to this list at the request of individuals who have Gottscheer ancestors and the surname was not included in Hutter's publication. death information, as an added note or signified by a cross. Please report any WEBSITE PROBLEMS to the GGG WEBMASTER. Unfortunately, they do not as yet have a Slovenian list. Compiled by Martha Hutter. Wien, 1902. This list does not include all the surnames found in the Catholic Church records of Gottschee prior to 1890. Baptism registers usually give: The earliest marriage records may give only the names of the bride and groom and have little or no information about the couple's parents. Most Gottscheer men who served in the Austrian army enlisted in the old 43rd Infantry Regiment (disbanded in 1810) or later in the 17th Infantry Regiment. Agnes was born on January 17 1870, in Kaschen #2, Tschermoschnitz, Gottschee, Austria-Hungary. Castle Garden (http://www.castlegarden.org) processed eight million immigrants between the years 1855-1892. They recorded details of baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials. If there were no marriage restrictions, girls typically married for the first time between ages 18 and 25. The Gottscheers arrived in the 1300s, when much of the area was untamed forest. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, Thuringia, Germany, Selected Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1549-1876. Proklamationen 1844-1848 (microfilm only), Proklamationen 1853-1878 (microfilm only), Familienbuch I ab 1840: Nesselthal, Taubenbrunn, Familienbuch II ab 1840: Neufriesach, Oberkatzendorf, Altfriesach, Familienbuch III ab 1840: Lichtenbach, Kummerdorf, Brunnsee, Familienbuch IV ab 1840: Bchel, Tanzbchel, Oberteutschau, Familienbuch V ab 1840: Oberbuchberg, Mitterbuchberg, Unterbuchberg, Schlechtbchel, Schaflein, Grodez, Wurmberg, Familienbuch VI ab 1840: Reichinau, Untersteinwand. Edit your search or learn more, Year start date must be less than year end date, xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx, xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxx xxx xxxxx, xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx, Do not sell or share my personal information. This collection contains an index of names found in parish registers from numerous Protestant communities that are today part of the German state of Thuringia. Sundays were days of rest: church in the morning, perhaps lunch at a Gasthaus followed the researcher has in one location a list of the microfilm numbers which covers a financially, since the wealth (land, livestock) was passed on to sons. Whenever possible, you should confirm all information found in family registers with baptism, marriage, and burial records. The marriage registers of some churches give the dates on which the marriage banns were announced. In your query, please include some brief information regarding the surname you are asking about, such as time period, town or region. In the records themselves, there are gaps, which, I assume, are due to fire, flood, Gottschee Surnames Federal Criminal Records Military Letters 1863-1865 Navy Enlistments 1864-1865 Lusitania . Non-GGG Members: Non-GGG members may search the Surname List database. The records were published in 1942 by the German consulate in Laibach (Ljubljana). The following source contains a helpful list of German church record inventories with FamilySearch Library call numbers and English annotations: Blodgett, Steven W. Germany: Genealogical Research Guide. They list the church records, their location, and the years they cover. You may view the available forms in a new window by clicking on the links of your preferred format Or you can download (save files to your computer) by Right-Clicking on them instead, then choosing "Save as". Links to those articles are at Jurisdictions 1945-present (for towns located in present-day Germany), and Research Articles on Former States of Germany. If there is a family book for this time period, the priest may have Requesting Birth and Death Certificate copies can be done by mail. Early records were usually written in paragraph form. Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy. Die deutshe Sprachinsel Gottschee in Krain im Jahre 1878, Habsburg Empire - Cadastral maps (XIX. Records of the twentieth century may provide additional details, such as the name of the hospital, birthplace of parents, occupation of the parents, marital status of the mother, and the number of other children born to the mother. This table includes villages in the 19th-century Gottschee District plus adjacent villages with a Gottschee German population. var tlJsHost = ((window.location.protocol == "https:") ? Gottschee Surnames Federal Criminal Records Military Letters 1863-1865 Navy Enlistments 1864-1865 Lusitania . I have seen death records of several Left-side (l.s.) Christian Benjamin Friedrich Gottschee Latvia Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1854-1909 Birth, Baptism & Christening View Prussian Provinces, Selected Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1661-1944 Birth, Baptism & Christening Eastern Prussian Provinces, Germany [Poland], Selected Civil Vitals, 1874-1945 Birth, Baptism & Christening View Name Dezember 1869. The other is the Gottscheer Chat NYC Municipal Archives Holdings Quick Chart by Joseph McMahon. The term parish refers to the jurisdiction of a church minister. Gottschee. * Tote 1741-1784 link (missing Aug 1782-May 1784). Suffolk County, NY Civil War Draft Records, All members of the German Genealogy Group are invited to submit a form listing of the surnames they are researching to. She will then forward your query to the GGG member who submitted the surname. In German areas under French domination during the early nineteenth century, many church records were kept in French. Often the child and parents are listed on the left side of the page, and the year and birth/baptism date on the right. //]]> See Germany Obituaries for more details. For the provinces of East Prussia (Ostpreussen), Posen, Pomerania (Pommern), Silesia (Schlesien), parts of Brandenburg, and West Prussia (Westpreussen), areas which no longer belong to Germany, the online gazetteer, Class: Kartenmeister.com Finding Places in the Former German Area of Poland, Berlin Evangelical Central Archive Inventory Online - The, The records for the eastern provinces of Prussia that went to Poland are in the, GERMANY - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS, GERMANY, [STATE] - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS, Each day of the year had several patron saints and was a feast day to honor those saints. Church records were the official vital records for the Habsburg empire. In some of the parishes, these records begin in the late 1600s, although most begin in the 1700s, and all end in 1941. To locate the parish name for the village where your ancestors were born or married, purchase the GHGA publication, Surnames in Gottschee, 639 Surnames of Gottschee from 1890-1941 by Martha Hutter. These records are created by local authorities, and with possible exceptions for events overseas, in the military, or in the District of Columbia. //]]> Of course, errors were made in listing house numbers and some names. Original microfilms of the Catholic Church records of Gottschee are located in Liepzig, Germany. locate the older records. Church record inventories are available for most areas in Germany. U.S. and state census records are an excellent source for the many Gottscheers who emigrated from Gottschee in the late 1800s and early 1900s. For more information regarding restrictions for FamilySearch Historical Record Collections, click on the "Learn more" link found on each collection details page. The City of Long Beach Vital Records office remains closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Marriage banns, family books and other church records may also be found. As record keeping improved, columns were often used in the entries. These are Lutheran church records from Thuringia, Germany. Information about parents, birth dates, and birthplaces may be inaccurate, depending on the informant's knowledge. Copyright 1999 - 2023 German Genealogy Group. In some small way, we have become another family. the Gottscheer Bulletin Board where people searching for their Gottscheer ancestors and Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. This area was populated by about 30,000 people. Immigrant passenger records of Castle Garden (1855-1890) and Ellis Island (1892-1954) for Gottscheers who emigrated from Gottschee in the 1800s and early 1900s. half have been completed and of the 7 adjoining Slovenian (Duchy of Krain) parishes, only The marriage record will often lead to the parents' birth records. Additional information (usually found with the baptismal record) may include the fact Vital records most commonly refer to records such as birth and death certificates, marriage licenses and divorce decrees, wills and the like. All Rights Reserved. If your request is unsuccessful, search for duplicate records that may have been filed in other archives, church registers, or in civil registration offices. Large cities have many churches, each serving part of the city. View this catalog record in WorldCat for other . the purposes for our existence given by our charter is: to provide information and These printable handouts can be used for ready reference when reading German Handwriting. Many a morning, the Deciphering German Handwriting by Amelia M. Schiller. Non-GGG members may search the Surname List database. Almost every village had at least one The table is sortable. One of track of your particular family, in among the others with the same surnames, by using the The following details may be found: The indexed records are based on older microfilms of the holdings in the administrative archives in Erfurt. Before the marriage ceremony could take place, the non-local party was required to present the officiating pastor with a paper stating that the proclamations had been read, and there were no objections. century), Gottscheer Umsiedlervereichnis - Datenbank, Wolsegger, Peter, "Das Urbarium der Herrschaft Gottschee vom Jahre 1574,". records for all of the children of this couple. It follows that for locations the language of the official record should be used. Soon local pastors were required to provide the town administration with a yearly copy of these records. . FamilySearch Catalog, Die Maus, Index to Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Bremen Church Books, index, ($) Please report any WEBSITE PROBLEMS to the GGG WEBMASTER. The region has been part of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hapsburg Empire, the Illyrian Provinces of the French Empire, the Austrian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (SHS), and, until 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It would have been wonderful if every Gottscheer man married a girl from his home This varied by location and time period. If more than one possible candidate is found, search confirmation, marriage, and burial records to determine the correct individual. Formal Expect to encounter restrictions on access to records at FamilySearch. You can use supposition to help you locate Dezember 1910. Orts-Repertorium des Herzogthums Krain. Once you overcome language, spelling and handwriting difficulties you are faced with Old age was given as the cause of death in people This table does not include areas no longer in Germany. The table is sortable. (FS Library book 943 D27bs; film 1,573,115 item 2; fiche 6,001,630.). Wood was used for fires, tools, structures, furniture and needed constant Most families were quite large. Alphabetisches Verzeichni der Namen aller Ortschaften, Schlsser, Gter und Hfe im Herzogthume Krain, mit Bercksichtigung der Landeseintheilung vom Jahre 1854. Selling them for $35 each for the time and effort they do take to copy. It is a simple No guessing allowed. 2; Person Id: I1682; Tree Id: 235081; Search for Maria Mausser in Newspapers 256547 Possible Record Matches on Ancestry Parents Father: Franz Mausser: Birth: 6 Jan 1873 in Altlag 12, Altlag Parish, Gottschee, Austria. Expect to encounter restrictions on access to records at FamilySearch. The In Canada, most Gottscheer immigrants settled in the cities of Kitchener, Toronto, and Vancouver. Geni requires JavaScript! Auf Grundlage der Volkszhlung vom 31. The Internet has become a great genealogical tool. For example, often Evangelical Registers in West Prussia are also populated with Mennonite data, when Mennonites lived in those regions. Ancestry.com ($). After 1918, the people in this territory became citizens of Yugoslavia. To learn more about Gottschee and its history, visit their website at www.gottschee.org. that is written there. and marriages, but the Gottscheer parishes also include family books, which list the head They identify what records should be available for a specified parish and where to write for information on these records. Because the Gottscheers numbered each house in the village, it is fairly easy to keep Only a limited vocabulary is used. Birth records generally give the child's name, sex, date and place of birth, and the names of the parents. house number. Additional parishes are underway and will be published by GHGA Researching in the Gottscheer and Slovenian parishes requires language abilities in By 1650 most Reformed parishes began keeping records. These surnames are from Martha Hutter's booklet, Surnames of Gottschee, 639 Surnames of Gottschee from 1890-1941. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + tlJsHost + "trustlogo/javascript/trustlogo.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); 1840-1860) l.s. Of areas no longer in Germany, only the Polish provinces whose records are stored in Berlin are included in this table. This collection is an index to the names found in the ecclesiatical records. With the marriage dates, it is easy to check the birth seasons of fasting, they fasted. Occasionally, private researchers create large indexes of church records. village, but often he married a girl from the neighboring parish and the marriage took Side Note: the baptismal and death years between 1691 and 1812 include, Side Note: the baptismal and death years between 1695 and 1789 include, 1U) Taufen 1826 - 1897 - Kirchenbuch 1669 - 1941 Katholische Kirche - Unterwarmberg, 1N) Familienbuch 1820 - Kirchenbuch 1724 - 1941 Katholische Kirche Nesselthal (Gottschee), 2N) Tote 1881-1928 - Kirchenbuch 1724 - 1941 Katholische Kirche Nesselthal (Gottschee), 3N) Tote 1930-1941 - Kirchenbuch 1724 - 1941 Katholische Kirche Nesselthal (Gottschee), 1S) Taufen 1792 - 1803 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 2S) Taufen 1804 - 1812 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 3S) Drfer A-Z Taufen 1813 - 1831 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 4S) Drfer A-Z Tote 1813 - 1831 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 5S) Heiraten 1813 - 1815 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 6S) Taufen 1832-1857 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 7S) Taufen 1857-1884 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 8S) Familienbuch 1810 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 9S) Familienbuch 1830 - Kirchenbuch 1792 -1941 Katholiache Kirchen - Stockendorf, 1T) Taufen 1741-1764 - Tschermoschnitz, Krain, Austria, 2T) Taufen 1766-1783 - Tschermoschnitz, Krain, Austria. 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