Bremen, Germany Genealogy

Germany  Bremen (Bremen)

Guide to Bremen (Bremen), Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

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Bremen

The capital, Bremen,

Research Tools
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Germany, Bremen Name Card Index to Passenger Lists (FamilySearch Historical Recods)


 * German Word List
 * Latin Word List
 * Handwriting
 * Handwriting Guide
 * German Handwriting Tutorial
 * http://www.kurrentschrift.net/index.php5?s=schreiben (enter German genealogical word, click on "umwandeln", view your word in Kurrentschrift (Gothic handwriting)
 * German Chronological Jurisdictions
 * Websites
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Getting started in Bremen research
Before starting your research in Bremen, you need to know the name of your ancestor in its original or Germanic form, an approximate date when he or she was born, and the village or parish where he or she may have lived in Bremen.

Civil registration was introduced in Bremen in 1811 and this form of registering vital statistics was in force until 1876. The information in civil registration is in general more detailed than it is in church books. In the areas surrounding Bremen the pastors kept civil registration parallel to church records. The civil registration records are available through the catalog of FamilySearch and its research centers. If your research begins before 1811, you should begin with the parish registers for baptisms, marriages and burials kept in the church archives.

Once you have this information, you can search in the local archives for more information about your ancestor.

Here is a link to start research in the city of Bremen. The link contains information about emigration, family books from various areas of Bremen locations, citizenship lists, civil registration

http://www.genealogy.net/vereine/maus/datenbanken/index.php?lang=de

Bremen/Linkliste http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Bremen/Linkliste

Administrative Districts
Bremen is divided into five boroughs (Bezirke).

Boroughs (Bezirke):

Mitte, Nord, Ost, Süd, and West

Urban Districts (Kreisfreie Städte):

(Mitte)= Häfen, Mitte -- (Nord)= Blumenthal, Burglesum, Vegesack - (Ost)= Borgfeld, Hemeingen, Horn-Lehe, Oberneuland, Ostehrholz, Östliche Vorstadt, Schwachausen, Vahr - (Süd) = Huchting, Neustadt, Obervieland, Seehausen, Strom, Woltmerhausen - (West) = Blockland, Findorff, Gröpelingen, Walle

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