Hamburg, Germany Genealogy

Germany  Hamburg (Hamburg)

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

Find Important Information About Your Ancestors' Town

 * To begin using the records of Germany, knowing that your family came from Hamburg might not be enough to use the records of Germany. There are many different parish churches in Hamburg, and many different civil registry offices. Any information you can find in greater detail about their exact origins in Hamburg will help, such as
 * the street address
 * whether they were Evangelical Lutheran or Catholic
 * a parish or village name

Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin
To hopefully find more detail, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt:
 * Use Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin as a guide in exhausting every possible record to find what you need.

Boundary Changes
In 1937-38, several municipalities from neighboring Schleswig-Holstein and Hannover were annexed to Hamburg. These maps show the original areas of Hamburg during the time of the German Empire and the annexed areas which are part of Hamburg today. '''Alt-Hamburg, the city center. All of these areas were in the city-state of Hamburg during the time of the German Empire. This is a blowup of the central part of the following map.'''



Research Tools

 * German Word List
 * Latin Word List
 * Handwriting
 * Handwriting Guide
 * German Handwriting Tutorial
 * Kurrentschrift Converter (enter German genealogical word, click on "convert", view your word in Kurrentschrift (Gothic handwriting)
 * Passenger List Terminology
 * Hamburg Notarial Records


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