Germany, Bavaria, Neumarkt Miscellaneous City Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Foreign Language Title
Deutschland Archivgut

Collection Time Period
This collection of mixed records from city archives covers the inclusive years of about 1500 to 1900.

Record Description
This collection of mixed records from city archives includes records such as: finding aids and indexes, wills and estates, guardian and ward records, land and tenancy records, court records, Jewish births, tax records, school records, guild, apprenticeship, and associations, funeral sermons and sexton records, voting registers, council meeting protocols, and hospital books. Most of the records are handwritten in narrative style and in later years in formatted forms. Text of the records is in German.

Record Content
The key genealogical facts found on these records may include:


 * Names of parents, children, witnesses
 * Dates and places of events, ages
 * Residence and religion of principals
 * Occupation of principal person and maybe of other people listed depending on the record
 * Legitimacy

How to Use the Records
In order to find data in this collection it will be necessary to know at least the name of the ancestor, the place of the event, and an approximate date.

Some records have indexes at the end of the volume. Frequently, these indexes are arranged by the given name of the individual and sometimes use the Latin form of the name. Those volumes without indexes need to be searched chronologically for the individuals sought.

Begin your search by finding your ancestors in the index. Use the locator information in the index (such as page, entry, or certificate number) to locate your ancestors in the records. Compare the information in the record to what you already know about your ancestor to determine if this is the correct person. You may need to compare the information of more than one person to make this determination. Be aware that as with any index, transcription errors may occur.

When you have located your ancestor’s record, carefully evaluate each piece of information about other people listed in the record. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. For example:


 * Use the birth or baptism date and place to find the family in census records.
 * Use the residence and names of the parents to locate civil and land records.
 * The father’s occupation can lead you to employment records or other types of records such as military records.
 * The parent’s origin places can tell you former residences and can help to establish a migration pattern for the family.
 * Marriage date and place may help find their children
 * Burial place may also help to know of their migration pattern

It is often helpful to extract the information on all children with the same parents. If the surname is unusual, you may want to compile baptism entries for every person of the same surname and sort them into families based on the names of the parents. Continue to search the baptism records to identify siblings, parents, and other relatives in the same or other generations who were born, married and died in the same place or nearby.

Record History
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Why This Collection Was Created
These records are created to help civil authorities and for the benefits of its citizens.

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Record Reliability
Most of the records listed in this collection are reliable to a point, it depends on the knowledge of the person giving the information and the person that received it and wrote it. The most used records for genealogical research are the civil registration records after 1876 and the church records. However, if those are not available, the population registers (census) and emigration records are also reliable and great records to search for data that will help find other family members and other records.

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Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections
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 * United States. Bureau of the Census. 12th census, 1900, digital images, From FamilySearch Internet (www.familysearch.org: September 29, 2006), Arizona Territory, Maricopa, Township 1, East Gila, Salt River Base and Meridian; sheet 9B, line 71
 * Mexico, Distrito Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1886-1933, digital images, from FamilySearch Internet (www.familysearch.org: April 22, 2010), Baptism of Adolfo Fernandez Jimenez, 1 Feb. 1910, San Pedro Apóstol, Cuahimalpa, Distrito Federal, Mexico, film number 0227023

Sources of Information for This Collection:
“Germany, Miscelaneous City Records”, images, FamilySearch (http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch), 2010; from Stadtarchiv Neumarkt, Bavaria, Germany. Germany, Neumarkt Archive records. Stadtarchiv Neumarkt, Bavaria, Germany. FHL digital images. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Digital copies of originals are also housed in different archives throughout Germany.

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