Hello Amanda, > My family has Xeroxes of a few pages of a document from my grandmother's > cousin's branch, which came over separately (and later) than my > grandmother's > parents did in 1911. The pages are numbered, as if they come from a > booklet, > which appears to contain the immediate ancestry of grandma's cousin. > > I want to know what kind of book this is. Let me describe it. That seems to be an Ahnenpass, a document in the Third Reich to prove a non Jewish origin. > and > stamped with a circular stamp containing the word "Salzburg" in the > middle, > with what appears to be "Enang. Pfarramt G.B." (or perhaps two other > capital Thst should read "Evang(elisches) Pfarramt" and either A.B. (that´s Augsburger Bekenntnis, e.g. Lutheran) or H.B. (Helvetisches Bekenntnis, e.g. Reformed). > what > is the Geburtseinte? just a guess, maybe this should read Geburtseintr(ag) meaning birth entry. Greetings from Vienna Peter -- Peter Haas Carabelligasse 5/184, A-1210 Wien, Austria http://members.chello.at/familie.haas/ Reg. Linux User #17202 main(){printf(&unix["%%str\151d!\012"],(unix)["Peter"]+"Haas"-'c');} GMX.at - Österreichs FreeMail-Dienst mit über 2 Mio Mitgliedern E-Mail, SMS & mehr! Kostenlos: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atfreemail

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:32:28PM +0200, Peter Haas wrote: > Hello Amanda, > > > My family has Xeroxes of a few pages of a document from my grandmother's > > cousin's branch, which came over separately (and later) than my > > grandmother's parents did in 1911. The pages are numbered, as if they > > come from a booklet, which appears to contain the immediate ancestry > > of grandma's cousin. > > > That seems to be an Ahnenpass, a document in the Third Reich to prove a > non Jewish origin. Thanks for your reply! I googled Ahnenpass, and the format seems to be different. Did it change over time? The format of this document is: for each couple, male birth information on the top left, female birth information on the top right, marriage information goes across both pages in one long band in the middle of the page, male death information on the bottom left, and female death information on the bottom right. I'm hesitant to post scans, although everyone named on these pages has died, partly because I'm not a direct descendant and haven't asked a descendant's permission to post (we've lost touch with them). Maybe if I blurred out the names? > Thst should read "Evang(elisches) Pfarramt" and either A.B. (that´s > Augsburger Bekenntnis, e.g. Lutheran) or H.B. (Helvetisches Bekenntnis, > e.g. Reformed). Any reason you can think of why it was stamped by an Evangelisches Pfarramt when they were all Roman Catholic? Could it be that they were residing in Salzburg and going through the local parish? > > what > > is the Geburtseinte? > just a guess, maybe this should read Geburtseintr(ag) meaning birth entry. Thanks! That makes sense. Amanda