Hamburg, Germany Genealogy

Germany  Hamburg (Hamburg)

Guide to Hamburg (Hamburg), Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Find Important Information About Your Ancestors' Town

 * To begin using the records of Germany, knowing that your family came from Hamburg might not be enough to use the records of Germany. There are many different parish churches in Hamburg, and many different civil registry offices. Any information you can find in greater detail about their exact origins in Hamburg will help, such as
 * the street address
 * whether they were Evangelical Lutheran or Catholic
 * a parish or village name

Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin
If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it.
 * Use Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin as a guide in exhausting every possible record to find what you need.

Meyers Gazetteer
Once you know the town name you need, the other facts you need are contained in Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-lexikon des deutschen Reichs, the gazetteer on which the FamilySearch catalog for Germany is based.
 * Use MeyersGaz, the digital gazetteer, to find the details you need, particularly the Kreis (county) it belonged to, found after "Kr".
 * MeyersGaz Help Guide
 * Abbreviation Table

Here is part of an entry from MeyersGaz.org. (The whole entry can be studied at Heusenstamm, MeyersGaz.)

Research Tools

 * German Word List
 * Latin Word List
 * Handwriting
 * Handwriting Guide
 * German Handwriting Tutorial
 * Kurrentschrift Converter (enter German genealogical word, click on "convert", view your word in Kurrentschrift (Gothic handwriting)
 * Passenger List Terminology
 * Hamburg Notarial Records


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