Thanks for the help. One of the brothers was a miner, the other a tailor. I understand the Brandenburg province had mining while the Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg was primarily agricultural. The brothers could have originated in one and worked in or relocated to the other. Where would genealogical records of the 1850s be held if they still exist?
Hi Betsy, at this time (about 1850) Brandenburg as whole Germany was agricultural, there didn't exist minings. Since you have Anhalt-Bernburg as birthplace you should look through the (Protestant) church books of the town of Bernburg which are microfilmed by the LDS church: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=topicdetails&subject=372185&subject_disp=Germany%2C+Anhalt%2C+Bernburg+%2D+Church+records&columns=*,0,0 But it's possible that you will find nothing since your ancestors might be born not directly in the town of Bernberg but in a village which belonged to the Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg. I don't think that Brandenburg will be the clue since it's too far away from Bernburg. By the way the German pronunciation of Bernburg is very similar to the pronunciation of Bran(den)burg. Best regards, Stefan Rückling Stefan Rückling Kröpeliner Straße 13 13059 Berlin http://www.rueckling.de/english/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betsey Cotter" <betsey@tarletonacademy.com> To: <PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Prussian/German historical geography (Timmy) > Thanks for the help. One of the brothers was a miner, the other a tailor. > I understand the Brandenburg province had mining while the Duchy of > Anhalt-Bernburg was primarily agricultural. The brothers could have > originated in one and worked in or relocated to the other. > > Where would genealogical records of the 1850s be held if they still exist? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >