Dorothy, if you are looking for help with Lubeck, I would highly recomend a researcher in Kiel, I have used [email protected], Mr Uwe Jacobsen Roy Shiflet, Laurel, MD ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:01 AM Subject: SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 183 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Help w Anna M. M?nsson 1876 (Dorothy Beckelman) > 2. Success in L?beck (David Armstrong) > 3. Re: Help w Anna M. M?nsson 1876 (David Armstrong) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:21:22 -0600 > From: "Dorothy Beckelman" <[email protected]> > Subject: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] Help w Anna M. M?nsson 1876 > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Need help, if at all possible. > My grandmother Anna Marie M?nsson was b. January 23, 1876 in Lubeck > Schlewig-Holstein. > She was born out-of-wedlock to Stina M?nsdotter. I do not know the name > of her father. > She left from Niedorfer, Lubeck May 5, 1882 for Virestad, Sweden to live > with her grandparents. She was baptised February 11, 1876. Where? > > Is it possible to get her birth certificate and the name of the church she > was baptized in? > Someone told me all records were destroyed during the WW? Is that so? > > Anna Marie's mother worked as a domestic servant. In 1873 for A. Bendfeld > in Sierksdorf, and in 1875 for Muhle (Mill) Quintzahn in Hasselburger if > that helps any. There is a letter of recommendation for future employment > with these two names on it. > > Any help appreciated or pointing me in the right direction or resource > also appreciated. > Thank you, > Dorothy > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:11:50 +0900 > From: "David Armstrong" <[email protected]> > Subject: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] Success in L?beck > To: "Schleswig-Holstein List" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > G'day everyone, > > I thought I would share a recent success concerning my German ancestry > with the list. > > My Great Grandfather Asmus Kunde was born in the parish of Zarpen near > L?beck in 1852. He went to sea and later settled in England. > > The LDS don't have the registers for Zarpen on microfilm but they do have > the ones for Hamberge, the neighbouring parish to the south. From this, I > picked up Asmus's mother's second marriage and also her burial. Both > entries recorded that her eldest son, Hans Kunde (b: 1846), was living in > L?beck. > > The L?beck Archives informed that they had the Probate Records for Hans > Kunde and his wife. I was able to purchase a copy of the Testament which > informed me that Hans had 11 children, 7 of whom survived to adulthood. > It also gave me the names, dates of birth and current address of the > surviving seven children, along with husbands names of the four daughters. > > I am now slowly working my way through the city directories and the parish > registers on microfilm following up on this. > > There are only 16 people in the L?beck 'phone book with the Kunde surname. > Just over a month ago, I sent each of the them a brief letter in German > with a descendency chart. I have now had several replies including from > two who are my 3rd cousins! (My poor German is now getting a serious > workout!). Better still they have a sister living in Bad Segeberg where > the old Zarpen registers are in the Lutheran archive! > > I hope this encourages others to keep going with their research. > > Regards > > David Armstrong > Maylands, > Western Australia > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:58:54 +0900 > From: "David Armstrong" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] Help w Anna M. M?nsson 1876 > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dorothy > > The L?beck City Directories have been microfilmed by the LDS, as have > many if not most of the parish registers for L?beck. These can ordered > into your local LDS library. > > There are certainly some gaps in the LDS collection of parish registers, > presumably as a result of the Second World War. > > By locating your family in the Directory, you can work out which is the > nearest church. I recently had an address for the 1880s in the Innenstadt > (ie Old Town) and then I used Google Maps to locate the street, and from > their changed to the aerial photograph to see that St Jakobi was the > nearest church to their home. > > The main Register Office for L?beck has a website > http://www.luebeck.de/fb3/340_standesamt.html > > from where you should be able to get a civil birth certificate. (They'll > charge for a search if you can't give the exact address.) > > Also, have you considered "Confirmation" Records. Your grandmother was > presumably confirmed in the Lutheran Church in Sweden when she was about > 14? What do Swedish confirmation records say? (I'm currently awaiting a > Confirmation Register microfilm from St Lorenz which I hope will give me > details of the children who were born in St Gertrud (I think) during a > period when the St Gertrud baptism registers haven't been microfilmed > (because they're destroyed?)). > > Regards > > David Armstrong > Maylands, > Western Australia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dorothy Beckelman > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:21 AM > Subject: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] Help w Anna M. M?nsson 1876 > > > Need help, if at all possible. > My grandmother Anna Marie M?nsson was b. January 23, 1876 in Lubeck > Schlewig-Holstein. > She was born out-of-wedlock to Stina M?nsdotter. I do not know the name > of her father. > She left from Niedorfer, Lubeck May 5, 1882 for Virestad, Sweden to live > with her grandparents. She was baptised February 11, 1876. Where? > > Is it possible to get her birth certificate and the name of the church > she was baptized in? > Someone told me all records were destroyed during the WW? Is that so? > > Any help appreciated or pointing me in the right direction or resource > also appreciated. > Thank you, > Dorothy > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS list administrator, send an email > to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS mailing list, send an > email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 183 > ******************************************************** >