German Marriage Records Translation

Civil registration records are records of births marriages and deaths kept by the government.

German marriage records translation.

Before working as a translator christopher was a german teacher in the south east of england where he co authored the paper cultural content and references in the teaching of german with dr. The letter s often looks like an f in old documents. Apoplexy paralysis due to stroke aquis suffocatus. They are an excellent source for information on names and dates and places of births marriages and deaths.

These records are kept by the civil registrar german. If you are looking at levern or dielingen records for example you might some variances but you should be able to. Two examples are provided and are from the wehdem church records. You re right it s a marriage certificate.

If you re still looking for an answer it s bescheinigung der eheschliessung certification of the marriage. He has completed translations across a broad range of subject areas from german and russian to english. Mark payne of the university of sheffield. Ascensio pulmonum upper respiratory infection.

Annus et dies obitus. German i decided to test drive it using a marriage record from the bischöfliches zentralarchiv regensburg that my friend mente. German terms for these records include standesamtsregister zivilstandsregister or personenstandsregister. Using german church records.

Even if you don t speak or read german however you can still make sense of most genealogical documents found in germany with the understanding of a few key german words common english genealogy terms including record types events dates and relationships are listed here along with german words with similar meanings such as words commonly used in germany to indicate marriage including. This is only a partial listing of the many german marriages recorded with the bulk of the records coming from baden bayern hessen pfalz bayern preußen rhineland westfalen and württemberg. Year and date of death. If the word you are looking for is not on this list please consult a german english dictionary the online grimm deutsches wörterbuch one of the best sources or other regional online dictionaries found at woerterbuchnetz de latin words are often found in german records and a few are included in this list.

Over 7 million marriage records from across germany have been transcribed and are available in a free online index from familysearch. Standesbeamte at the civil. German church records are usually well organized and can give a lot of information about a person. In records often associated with infants baptizatus.

Year and date of marriage. The fathers occupation and towns of residence. See the latin word list 34077. In my last post i wrote about my excitement over my brand new copy of hoffman and shea s recently published german genealogical translation guide in their words.

Marriage records generally have four dates listed.