Zentner

Zentner is a German surname and the subject of an ongoing surname study of global scope. The surname is most prevalent in the United States and Germany, with small concentrations in Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, France, the Netherlands, Canada, and elsewhere. The surname occurs in most of Eastern Europe: see German Genealogical Research in Eastern Europe.

For this surname FamilySearch has over 22,000 indexed historical records and over 6,000 individual profiles in the Family Tree.

Many of these thousands of profiles are in small trees but as historical records are examined that prove relationships small trees are joined into large trees. Some large trees in Family Tree are headed by:


 * LTBX-NFP Martin Zentner 1496–1549
 * GHN7-Y2J Peter Zentner 1480–Deceased
 * LZZQ-KNH Fredrich Jacob Zentner 1435–Deceased

19th century Baden-Württemberg
Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg has indexed 16 records of emigrants who left for other parts of the world. Some are matched with Family Tree records, and have source records reflecting this index; others remain to be worked into Family Tree. To see the desired result, inspect these profiles on Family Tree:


 * LR62-DTP Bernhard Zentner
 * GC9K-5GX Barbara Zentner
 * 9ZMR-HNL Christiane Zentner and son Karl Friedrich

Note how the Landesarchiv records are used as sources. These records are not indexed on FamilySearch but are online and can be included in Family Tree.

Questions?
Please use Talk:Zentner.

This project

 * Zentner surname study by the Guild of One Name Studies
 * Zentner talk page on this wiki

Other resources

 * Zentner in the FamilySearch Catalog
 * Zentner on Wikipedia