German Records on Ancestry

[Kit]

I've discovered ancestry has German records that related to my MIL's family.
They seem quite detailed but I can't read, write or speak German. Is there anyone here who has German family that can tell me if the transcriptions are accurate?

I can see the dates and names and know they relate to the family but the Germans seem very verbose.

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Kit

I've discovered ancestry has German records that related to my MIL's family.
They seem quite detailed but I can't read, write or speak German. Is there anyone here who has German family that can tell me if the transcriptions are accurate?

I can see the dates and names and know they relate to the family but the Germans seem very verbose.

Kit, I could possibly help you. However, old German handwriting can sometimes be nigh impossible to read, so it depends on each individual entry!

If you post the links I'll take a look later on.

[kiterunner]

I can have a look too but I can't promise anything.

[Kit]

Thanks Elizabeth.

The father's name is Christoph Schafer and the mother is Elisabetha Wilhelmina Catharina Hofmann. Her long name comes in handy. To me it looks like they mention the marriage date of the parents and somewhere, maybe not below, they mention the mother's birth day. I'm just getting random entries off my tree. Here are 3 entries for you to pick from.

Elisabetha

Catharina

Maria

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Kit

Thanks Elizabeth.

The father's name is Christoph Schafer and the mother is Elisabetha Wilhelmina Catharina Hofmann. Her long name comes in handy. To me it looks like they mention the marriage date of the parents and somewhere, maybe not below, they mention the mother's birth day. I'm just getting random entries off my tree. Here are 3 entries for you to pick from.

Elisabetha

Catharina

Maria

Slight glitch. I should have thought - I don't have Worldwide Ancestry so I can't see them. Could you email them, Toni?

[ElizabethHerts]

My FMP subscription is worldwide.

For Elisabeth:
Marriage index 7 Oct 1844
Father: Johann Ernst Friedrich Hofmann
Mother: Susanna Maria Elisabetha Ritsch

Spouse: Schafer
Frankfurt-am-Main

[kiterunner]

Sorry, this is going to take a long time so I will have to come back to it later. This is as far as I have got so far with your first link:

Month April 1838
Birth records Frankfurt a M
No 380
...
Wednesday 18th April 1838
Hofmann, ??? Schäfer, ???
the unmarried Elisabetha Wilhelmina Catharina Hofmann, born here 15 May 1815

[kiterunner]

Oh, I should mention that Ancestry has a good message board for help translating German records though you sometimes have to wait a while for a reply:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/lo...%20translation

[Kit]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I can have a look too but I can't promise anything.

I missed this before, thanks.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

Slight glitch. I should have thought - I don't have Worldwide Ancestry so I can't see them. Could you email them, Toni?

I can. Could you PM me your email address? I mostly wont be online again until midday, my time tomorrow.

Sorry I forgot I had a worldwide sub. I made sure I was in .co.uk when they came up. My bad.