G'day folks. I've watched this topic for a while.
For your information, I'm German and live in southern Germany in Baden-Württemberg near Stuttgart. There may be the one or other having the luck to get back to 1000 or 1200 but my experience they should be under the 0.0001% having such luck but is like Jan said. The 1550's is in Europe a boarder for the most. Another boarder is also the 30 year war between the German and Swededs. This was between about 1618 and 1648. In this time the Cathlic burned down the Protestant churches and visa versa. Thus very much information was lost. Upto now I've used the possibilities which I could get free of charge, eg. German Ahnenbücher or Ortssippenbücher. For those not knowing what these books are. The first, the Ahnenbuch (plural Ahnenbücher) was introduced from Hilter so evereyone could prove his German Descandancy. The second is the Ortssippenbuch. These is a books are published from people who studied the history of a German town searching for their descendantss. They reseached eg. Church books, tax lists, lists of soldiers etc. In my research I had very much luck as there was an old painted family tree which could be corrected and verified in the last years. Also I could copy an Ortssippenbuch from the village where the husband of my niece comes from. Due to this help I could go back to about 1540. Getting data earlier is very difficult as the Cathilc-Church started at about this time to document the topics of our interest. Birth, Marriage, Death. BTW. I could only research my family name "Scholz" in Wohlau back to about 1741 as at that time the church burned down destroying al records. I'm greatfull for every name I find. In the meantime there are too many to remember but while visting a cemetary I take a picture and the GPS-Data of every one I find. We could be related. Bernhard -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Cunningham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file My ancestors were all very poor, and most lived below the radar. With my father's family, I feel lucky to have gotten to 1850 in one line. In my mother's it is easier. Her mother was from a group of Bucks County people who actually owned land. I can get my father's mother to a ship manifest, and that is it. Good for all those people who can go back farther, but a lot of us cannot. I feel very lucky to have 1200. Elizabeth C Jan Roberts wrote: > I always wonder how people who claim links way way back have managed to actually make the link given that so many records have been lost. I consider myself lucky to have been able to go back to the mid 1550s on ONE line - most peter out in the late 1700s. Not questioning that you (and others) have done it, just wonder how you've done it. > > Cheers > Jan > > From: Bob Vary [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 4 July 2011 14:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file > > But not everyone has it well documented. I also feel that I have the good fortune to have several proven lines of descent from notable medieval figures. Whether its a mathematical certainty or not is irrelevant. > > > From: John S. Adams [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 11:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file > > I don't think it has anything to do with "good fortune." It's almost a mathematical certainty. > > John S. Adams > Hermosa Beach, CA > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 15:35:50 -0700 > One reason is that some of us have the good fortune to be direct descendants historical people living in the 9th and 10th centuries...... > > > CE > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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