Hi Jean, The only thing you could try, that I know of, is to search the GRO indexes of Overseas BMDs on the findmypast website, this is a pay per view site so you would need a subscription of one kind or the other. Go there and look under the Births Marriage and Deaths tab near the top of the page. Click on the link and you will need to scroll down the next page to the section on Deaths and Burials. Follow the links to find the right link for either Service deaths or Army deaths etc., for a suitable span of years. If he died while still in the army then is death should have been registered with the British Consul etc., and eventually the registration sent back to the UK to appear in the GRO index of Oveseas events. I believe that is roughly how it worked. Failing that you might find that his marriage and the birth of his daughter were registered only locally to where they took place and you would need to contact the relevant German BMD/Civil Registration office or it's equvaent if you can find out where these events took place. Perhaps a Rootsweb list covering Germany would help, the common language of all rootsweb lists is supposed to be English, though you may find the odd foreign language message creeping in here and there. It could be well worth a try though, especially if you know whereabouts in Germany the child was born or the couple were married, you may find a list for that particular County/Province or equivalent. in Germany. Maybe someone on such a list could find the family in the German census, if such a thing exists and is in the public domain and maybe on line. The subscribers of such a list should be able to to give you more guidance on this subject, perhaps, than the WRY list subscribers at least. Go to the rootsweb site at Rootsweb.com and look under the heading Mailing Lists, you should then be able to search for a list for Germany, or the place/Province where you believe these events took place. You can then search or browse you chosen list's archives to see the sort of discussions that take place on the list. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<One of my uncles (HAROLD FOX b. 1927 Dewsbury) was in the army and married a German national (VAULTRAUT SCHMIDT (SCHMIT?) while serving in Germany. They had one child, a girl named MARVIN. The family lived in Germany and we only met the wife and child once when they came over to stay with us in the 1950 - 60s. Harold died in Borneo in 60s - 70s whilst still serving in the army. We never had any other contact with the family and none of Harold's siblings are still living. Having lost contact with the children of all Harold's siblings, I don't know anyone who would know what happened to the wife and child. Presumably they stayed on living in Germany. How would I find the marriage and death records for Harold since they didn't take place in this country? Does anyone know of a website where such records will be traceable? Thanks.>>

Hi you should find the records in the overseas section. The records exist and are in the goverment's lists of birth deaths and marriages. regards Terry Norway > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:01:42 +0100 > Subject: Re: [WRY] Advice please on finding overseas (army) BMD records > > Hi Jean, > > The only thing you could try, that I know of, is to search the GRO indexes > of Overseas BMDs on the findmypast website, this is a pay per view site so > you would need a subscription of one kind or the other. Go there and look > under the Births Marriage and Deaths tab near the top of the page. Click on > the link and you will need to scroll down the next page to the section on > Deaths and Burials. Follow the links to find the right link for either > Service deaths or Army deaths etc., for a suitable span of years. If he > died while still in the army then is death should have been registered with > the British Consul etc., and eventually the registration sent back to the UK > to appear in the GRO index of Oveseas events. I believe that is roughly how > it worked. > > Failing that you might find that his marriage and the birth of his daughter > were registered only locally to where they took place and you would need to > contact the relevant German BMD/Civil Registration office or it's equvaent > if you can find out where these events took place. > > Perhaps a Rootsweb list covering Germany would help, the common language of > all rootsweb lists is supposed to be English, though you may find the odd > foreign language message creeping in here and there. It could be well worth > a try though, especially if you know whereabouts in Germany the child was > born or the couple were married, you may find a list for that particular > County/Province or equivalent. in Germany. > > Maybe someone on such a list could find the family in the German census, if > such a thing exists and is in the public domain and maybe on line. The > subscribers of such a list should be able to to give you more guidance on > this subject, perhaps, than the WRY list subscribers at least. > > Go to the rootsweb site at Rootsweb.com and look under the heading Mailing > Lists, you should then be able to search for a list for Germany, or the > place/Province where you believe these events took place. You can then > search or browse you chosen list's archives to see the sort of discussions > that take place on the list. > > Regards > Jenny DeAngelis > Spain. > <<One of my uncles (HAROLD FOX b. 1927 Dewsbury) was in the army and married > a German national (VAULTRAUT SCHMIDT (SCHMIT?) while serving in Germany. > They had one child, a girl named MARVIN. The family lived in Germany and we > only met the wife and child once when they came over to stay with us in the > 1950 - 60s. Harold died in Borneo in 60s - 70s whilst still serving in the > army. We never had any other contact with the family and none of Harold's > siblings are still living. Having lost contact with the children of all > Harold's siblings, I don't know anyone who would know what happened to the > wife and child. Presumably they stayed on living in Germany. How would I > find the marriage and death records for Harold since they didn't take place > in this country? Does anyone know of a website where such records will be > traceable? Thanks.>> > > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010