I have searched high and low in the US to find the town where my Haverbecks came from. No one has this information. Not LDS, Not marriage cert, Not death cert, not US Fed. Census, Not obits, Not Ship lists.Where does one look now? Judy Christopher (researching Haverbeck) ----- Original Message ----- From: <rct301@msn.com> To: <NIEDERSACHSEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:40 AM Subject: [NIEDERSACHSEN] Re: Bro. & Sis. - Hannah and Harmann Köster/Koester: Hannover > AL > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/4054.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Evelyn, vital records are not and never have been kept at either the > national, state or provincial level in Germany. In Germany, vital records > are kept strictly at the local level. So before you can proceed, you are > going to have to do additional research in the U.S. and find out exactly > which city, town or village in Hanover the Köster family was from. > > The brother and sister you mention were born in what was until 1866 the > Kingdom of Hanover (in German: Hannover), the capital of which was the > city of Hanover (Hannover). Like most of the major German states, Hanover > sided with Austria against Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War, or Seven > Weeks War, of 1866. Austria and her allies were defeated. The Kingdom of > Prussia (in German: Preussen; capital: Berlin) thereupon annexed Hanover, > which then became what was to then remain until 1945 the Prussian province > of Hanover. > > As I've mentioned before, following World War II and the break-up of the > vast state of Prussia by the Allies, the Prussian province of Hanover, the > state of Oldenburg, and the two very small states of Brunswick (in German: > Braunschweig) and Schaumburg-Lippe combined to form today's German state > of Lower Saxony (in German: Niedersachsen), with the city of Hanover (in > German: Hannover) as its capital. > > Here is the link to a map of pre-1945 Hanover (shown in purple) so that > you know what it looked like. To give you an idea of size as you look at > the map, Hanover covered an area a little larger than that covered by the > U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware combined. You will also note the > tiny state of Schaumburg-Lippe (capital: Bückeburg), shown in white and > where Bergkirchen was located, which, as I've mentioned before, is NOT to > be confused with the state of Lippe (capital: Detmold) to its south and > shown in yellow and which is one of the components of today's German state > of North Rhine-Westphalia (in German: Nordrhein-Westfalen): > > http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Preussen/Hannover/uebersichtskarte.html > > Again, like I said, before you can proceed, you are going to have to do > additional research in the U.S. and find out just exactly which city, town > or village in Hanover the Köster family was from. > > Robert > > > > > ==== NIEDERSACHSEN Mailing List ==== > NOTICE -- To answer messages from the MESSAGE BOARD you > must click on the link in the message. This will take > you to the MESSAGE BOARD and you can click POST REPLY > to answer. Your reply will be sent back to the list for > all to benefit. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >