{"id":4921,"date":"2014-02-28T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T06:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2014-02-28T22:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T04:34:03","slug":"a-little-help-deciphering-german-church-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/a-little-help-deciphering-german-church-records\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Help Deciphering German Church Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"245337Back in January, I acquired several church records for my family from Bromberg, Posen, Preu\u00dfen.  While I have had luck deciphering most of them (thanks to my handy book German-English Genealogical Dictionary<\/a><\/em> and, of course, Google Translate<\/a>), there are a few that I\u2019m having trouble reading.  I thought maybe my readers would be able to offer a hand.<\/p>\n

There are four records, which I will describe briefly below.  I have uploaded PDFs for each, which includes the full-page image as well as any close-ups.  The text I\u2019m struggling with is highlighted.  Any help would be greatly (very greatly!!) appreciated.  You are welcome to leave a comment (which is nice so others can see) or you can email<\/a> me privately.<\/p>\n

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M\u00fcller-Ristau Marriage<\/h6>\n

This is the record for my third great-grandfather, Friedrich M\u00fcller to his first wife Regine Ristau.  I\u2019m having trouble reading two words in the column that talks about who got married (residence, occupation, etc.) and most of the words in the consent column.  Link to PDF<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"245351 <\/p>\n

Wojahn-Zaske<\/strike> Jaster Marriage<\/h6>\n

This is the marriage record for my newly-found fourth great-grandfather to his second wife.  I\u2019m having some trouble deciphering the consent given for the wife.  Link to PDF<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"245351 <\/p>\n

M\u00fcller Twin Baptism (or lack thereof)<\/h6>\n

The last two entries on the page are for the twins of Friedrich M\u00fcller and Regine Ristau (of the first record above).  They apparently died at birth and were not actually baptized, but nonetheless, they were recorded in the church register.  There are two spots I\u2019ve having trouble reading:  the name column and the remarks column.  Link to PDF<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"Muller <\/p>\n

M\u00fcller Deaths<\/h6>\n

This record contains the death entries for the twins (above) and their mother.  For the twins, I believe it says unbaptized son and unbaptized daughter, but I cannot make out the words between those two lines (other than the word \u201ctwins\u201d); I also cannot read the cause of death.  For the mother, I cannot make out the cause of death or the remarks.  Link to PDF<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"Muller <\/p>\n

Again, any help would be appreciated.  I am getting better at this, but sometimes, you just gotta ask for some help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January, I acquired several church records for my family from Bromberg, Posen, Preu\u00dfen.  While I have had luck deciphering most of them (thanks to my handy book German-English Genealogical Dictionary and, of course, Google Translate), there are a few that I\u2019m having trouble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-location-germanyprussia","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-1hn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}