Dorothea, this link may be helpful to make sense of at least the given names and their variations and derivations : http://www.rootdigger.de/Names.htm Good luck. Greetings from the roots, Klaus (Struve), in Kiel, SH, Germany -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:42:23 -0700 > Von: "Dorothea Sanderson" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] Finding siblings > > I am going to the Family History Center and see if I can order a film > to see if I can find any birth records for siblings of my grandfather > who was born in 1855 in Hamburg as far as I know. Will I have trouble > reading the script on these old films. Can anyone give any guidelines > for making it easier for one who knows no German? > > Dorothea > > ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: > http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01