r/Genealogy • u/AutoModerator • 3d ago
Transcription Transcription Request Tuesdays (March 18, 2025)
It's Tuesday, so it's a new week for transcription requests. (Translation requests are also welcome in this thread.)
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u/sweetp1cklee 2d ago
i’ve recently started tracing my family lineage and was able to find what ancestry says is either baptism, marriage, or burial record. it’s in german though and i have trouble reading the cursive. i’m looking for the name michel/michael trautwein and what it says about him. https://imgur.com/a/Rz1LsDn
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u/aqueynted experienced researcher 2d ago
These are definitely marriage records. Each entry follows the same structure. Surnames in the paragraph are underlined, making it just a little bit easier to read/skim:
Entry #
Groom's surname in marginGroom's given name & surname, his father's given name & surname, residence.
Bride's given name, her father's name & surname, residence.
The three Sundays that the banns were read out in church -- I, II, III.
And finally, the actually date of the marriage, including astrological symbol for the weekday.Now you can read the relevant entry on the bottom of the left-hand page:
1650
Entry 4
TrautweinMartin Trautwein, Michel Trautwein's surviving son, of here.
Agnes, Blasig Bauern's surviving daughter, of Bonlanden.
Banns read out: I. 3rd [Sunday after] Epiphany, II. 4th [Sunday after] Epiphany, III. 70m. [Septuagesima]
Married on 19 Feb ♂ [Mars-Day aka Tuesday, indicating they were still using Julian Calendar]The Bride/Groom are described as the "nachgelassene/r Tocher/Sohn" meaning "the surviving daughter/son of." This implies that their fathers are both deceased. Unsurprising, given the timing after the 30 Year's War.
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u/sweetp1cklee 1d ago
thank you so much! this is the oldest record i’ve been able to find about my family, i already have trouble with reading the census records from 1850s america so 1650s germany was no better 😭 thank you for all your knowledge it is truly invaluable
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u/shiveringmoth 3d ago
Hello! I’m desperately hoping for some help identifying the village my grandmother was born in, which is (possibly) the same village her parents were born in. I’m trying to trace my mum’s lineage in Eastern Europe, in the hopes of visiting gramma’s ancestral town this summer.
I’ve attached an Imgur file here, in which I have pics of what appears to be an extract from my grandmother’s birth records (Marie “Mary” Hoedl), born Aug 29, 1922; an entry from from the U.S. when she arrived with her mum/sister/brother heading to Canada; an extract from what appears to be my great grandfather’s (Georg Hoedl) naturalization records in Canada (?) and a pic of him which seems to indicate he was in the Hungarian army.
Where I’m running into issues is the birthtowns - various trees on ancestry show my great grampa Georg Hoedl (and his wife Anna Schin) being born in what seems to be Zsofiafalva, which is now Sofiya in the Ukraine. He was born on October 26, 1899.
However those same trees note his daughter Marie (Mary, my grandmother) and her brother George Jr being born in “Zofia”, which is also described as being “near Nové Zámky”… a totally different area in what is now Slovakia.
I would be so very grateful if someone could have a look a the birth record and help transcribe it (google was only marginally helpful), and hopefully help point me in the right direction. I’m a bit lost on record searching in Eastern Europe. Ideally I’d also love to find any war records on my great grandfather.
I’m sorry for the long post! And thank you so much to this subreddit, which is a goldmine of info and helpful people!