German Marriage Records Translation

These are my favorite german translation websites for genealogy and yes i use them myself.

German marriage records translation.

General familysearch genealogy records germany requires free registration. Lr whatever that means marriage dispensation with or without denunciation. 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. They are an excellent source for information on names and dates and places of births marriages and deaths.

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. Civil registration records are records of births marriages and deaths kept by the government. This is a great site for transcribing german genealogy documents especially if you can only recognize some of the letters in a word. German terms for these records include standesamtsregister zivilstandsregister or personenstandsregister.

Unless somebody specifically asks for a full translation translators will translate the essential facts date of event names and ages place and parish any other useful information included e g. Name of first wife or husband if it is a second marriage place of birth names of parents for marriages. If it s handwriting help you are looking for consider joining our premium group weekly access to live office hours where you can ask katherine your tricky transcription and translation questions and get immediate answers. See the latin word list 34077.

Familysearch also has some digitized microfilm of german genealogy records. I never did come to any resolution with bits of it but i can always ask a german friend or post the record in the genealogy translations facebook group to get help with those little bits and to have them correct my translation. If you would like the entire translation reference guide for your marriage certificate it can be found here. Top 9 german translation websites and resources.

To view some of the images you must be at an lds family history center or a familysearch affiliated library. Marriage records generally have four dates listed. Includes some german baptism marriage and death indexes and other items. The fathers occupation and towns of residence.

Standesbeamte at the civil. These records are kept by the civil registrar german.