same name. Gottscheer parishes. First names would help as the year of birth, marriage and death. Marriage banns, family books and other church records may also be found. Gottschee Surnames Federal Criminal Records Military Letters 1863-1865 Navy Enlistments 1864-1865 Lusitania . In the 1880s through 1910, most settled in the states of Ohio and New York, while others traveled to California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, and Wisconsin. Their plots Baptism registers usually give: The earliest marriage records may give only the names of the bride and groom and have little or no information about the couple's parents. r/Genealogy - The Weekly Paid Record Lookup Requests . An example is the 764-microfilm Brenner collection described on page 38. No new records were added. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE COUNTY OF GOTTSCHEE. Included are the names of the villages included in the parish records, dates when a parish may have split into two parishes, where to find the records for specific villages, and a section on research tips on how to read these parish records which are written in Latin, German, and Slovenian languages. Look for word matches in books, stories & newspapers, etc. Enriching many American genealogies are letters to and from Gottschee. of the former Gottschee county are in the Catholic Church Archives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Deciphering German Handwriting by Amelia M. Schiller. In the 1980s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS, the Mormon church) made copies of these microfilm records. For details on finding the address for a parish church, click on the wiki research article for the state where the town is located. Parish employees will usually answer correspondence written in German. It follows that for locations the language of the official record should be used. from age 45 to 90. Updates: These surnames are from Martha Hutter's booklet, Surnames of Gottschee, 639 Surnames of Gottschee from 1890-1941. three things: the microfilm records of baptisms, burials and marriages in the catholic church as made Geni requires JavaScript! Website Proudly Made in the USA. Item #490, ISBN 1-931509-04-2. The oldest church records in this collection date from the 16th century. light and work all day. These parish records primarily contain information about births and baptisms, marriages, and deaths and burials. This gave community members a chance to object to the marriage. We at GHGA have a very modest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS, Mormon Church) made copies of these microfilms from Germany in the 1980s. The most important church records for genealogical research are baptism, marriage, and burial registers. I spent ten years looking for Gottschee, mostly because I did not know how to go FamilySearch Catalog, Die Maus, Index to Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Bremen Church Books, index, ($). Click on "View Full Listing" from the parish page. West Prussia, East Prussia). GHGA maintains its own The German-speaking residents of the region are called Gottschee Germans or Gottscheers, and their German dialect is called Gottschee German or Gottscheerish. Most begin in the late 18th century. Some records and collections must be viewed at a FamilySearch center (FSC), affiliate library or may be restricted to members of supporting organizations. All hands helped with the work. Gottschee refers to a former German-speaking language island centered around the city of Gottschee in Unterkrain (Lower Carniola) and largely coterminous with the borders of the early nineteenth-century (pre-1850) District of Gottschee. Some of the most poignant Gottscheer writings are the poems of the love of the land. In many regions, it was also common for the local church records to function in the role of civil registries. marry. Some parishes even have separate rolls of film for the left side The earliest records were in Latin, then moved to German, With the marriage dates, it is easy to check the birth For the provinces of East Prussia (Ostpreussen), Posen, Pomerania (Pommern), Silesia (Schlesien), parts of Brandenburg, and West Prussia (Westpreussen), areas which no longer belong to Germany, the online gazetteer, Class: Kartenmeister.com Finding Places in the Former German Area of Poland, Berlin Evangelical Central Archive Inventory Online - The, The records for the eastern provinces of Prussia that went to Poland are in the, GERMANY - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS, GERMANY, [STATE] - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS, Each day of the year had several patron saints and was a feast day to honor those saints. The Wiki page for each of the historical provinces of Germany, containing more detail about online records, and a map of Regional Churches can be found later in this article. available by the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church, by the GHGA publication: Gottschee: Family Record Research Using by an afternoon of socializing, singing and dancing. Since 1991, the region is located in Slovenia. NYC Municipal Archives Holdings Quick Chart by Joseph McMahon. Available in CD and in book format. * Tote 1741-1784 link (missing Aug 1782-May 1784). were not large. Germanic Alphabet Chart. In some of the parishes, these records begin in the late 1600s, although most begin in the 1700s, and all end in 1941. From my own personal experience, these gaps are also present in the records in The practice of keeping parish registers evolved slowly. Catholic Diocese in Germany by Tom Risinger. DOCUMENTATION Gottschee: Family Records Research Using the LDS Microfilms. Sometimes each side of a book is found on a separate microfilm. button box musician. The LDS Latin Genealogy Word List, may be downloaded at no charge from familysearch.org/ResearchHelps/Wiki/ and type in Latin Word List, then print. If you are researching in a parish where the marriages have not been copied, you take Agnes was born on January 17 1870, in Kaschen #2, Tschermoschnitz, Gottschee, Austria-Hungary. For example, often Evangelical Registers in West Prussia are also populated with Mennonite data, when Mennonites lived in those regions. Use duplicates, where available, to supplement parish registers that are missing or illegible. Search for the relative or ancestor. Latin, German and Slovenian. If they happen to be raising a family in the such a record, but if you do not find any proof, this person cannot be part of your Additional parishes are underway and will be published by GHGA The marriage banns themselves may exist in a separate record. Archion and Ancestry are both subscription websites. All Rights Reserved. This book If you find a surname in the list that is of interest to you, send a query to: Non-GGG members please note: We are sorry, but we are NOT able to do any research on anyone's ancestors. The parishes are Altenmarkt (Stari Trg ob Kolpi), Altlag (Stari Log), Banja Loka, Ebental (Polom), Fara, Gttenitz (Gotenica), City of Gottschee (Kocevje), Laibach (Ljubljana), Masern (Grcarice), Mitterdorf (Stara Cerkev), Morobitz (Borovec), Nesseltal (Koprivnik), Obermsel (Mozelj), Oberskrill (Zdihovo), Ossiunitz (Osilnica), Pllandl (Kocevske Poljane), Reifnitz (Ribnica), Rieg (Kocevska Reka), Semitsch (Semic), Stockendorf (Planina), Suchen (Draga), Tschermoschnitz (Crmosnjice), Tschernembl (Crnomelj), Unterdeutschau (Nemska Loka), Unterlag (Spodnji Log), Unterwarmberg (Dolenje Topla Reber). The youngest groom I have found in the records was 13, the youngest bride was If you find a surname in the list that is of interest to you, send a query to: Eileen Swanberg(<== Click HERE) about that surname, along with the Member number (s) from the search results. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + tlJsHost + "trustlogo/javascript/trustlogo.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); In some areas, the records of people of other faiths were kept by the predominant church. Copyright 1999 - 2023 German Genealogy Group. The guidebook contains the microfilm numbers for the Catholic church parish records of marriage, baptisms, death, and family records (census of each village); the names of the villages within each parish, plus the name of the original parish and date when a parish split into two parishes. replenishing. In that case, it may be helpful to load both films on adjacent readers. Through the numerous American Gottscheer clubs such as the Gottscheer Heritage and There is no LDS Slovenian Word List, but GHGA has a small one compiled by the Slovenian Genealogical Society. Parish registers are an important source for information on births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials. These microfilm records are available through a local Family History Library of the Mormon church. In general, you will need to know the religion of your ancestors as different religions kept separate records. These printable handouts can be used for ready reference when reading German Handwriting. In Canada, most Gottscheer immigrants settled in the cities of Kitchener, Toronto, and Vancouver. Do not sell or share my personal information, Event Type (Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death, Burial). Cholera, typhoid and If earlier generations are not in the record you are using, search neighboring parishes and other denominations. and marriages, but the Gottscheer parishes also include family books, which list the head I had no established community where I lived to The Index can be sorted by surnames, village of origin in Gottschee, and their address in the U.S. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + tlJsHost + "trustlogo/javascript/trustlogo.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); FamilySearch Catalog, Die Maus, Index to Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Bremen Church Books, index, ($) of all the same surnames and given names from the same village. Published in Excel format, the index lists the names of Gottscheers living in the U.S. published in the Gottscheer Gedenkbuch 1330-1947 by the Gottscheer Relief Association, compiled by John Kikel. In your query, please include some brief information regarding the surname you are asking about, such as time period, town or region. Gottschee: Family Records Research Using the LDS Microfilms Compiled by Kate Loschke Pruente. tuberculosis killed many more. If a couple needed to get married quickly, permission to skip the proclamations could be obtained for a fee. The German-speaking population, settled in the region since 1330, was resettled during World War II to the Rann Triangle in Untersteiermark (Lower Styria) (Nov 1941-Jan 1942) and then, at the the end of the war, expelled from Yugoslavia (May 1945). Edit your search or learn more, Year start date must be less than year end date, xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx, xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxx xxx xxxxx, xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx, Do not sell or share my personal information. Some areas used preprinted forms that required specific information. You can search by Surname OR by Germany Area (NOT BOTH), //