Ancestral Research

#1

Are there any posters on here who are involved in researching their ancestry? If there are I would love to hear about your results and exchange ideas. This thread could also be useful to people who have not done so yet but who may be interested.

#2

Yes, I've done alot of research, especially on my dad's side (100% Hungarian). Turns out I have a relative who fought with SS Div Hunyadi, such as is was, and died defending the Reichstag. Mom's side is Austrian and Silesian German.

#3

Yeah, we had a genealogy thread on here that vanished in some forum bamboozling. There's another one with news updates. No one's posted any stories in it yet though.

#4

My maternal ancestry is (all) German. I can presume this from the research that my German mother had to do before she married into the SS. Unfortunately after the war she threw away her Ahnentafel and I was not astute enough to question her whilst she was still alive. It is virtually impossible for me to research my German ancestry from England. There are no centralised and very few digitalised records and the authorities place restrictions on who can access their records so I am left with my paternal ancestry which is mainly English and then Welsh. I have found that the familysearch.org site is a very useful one and it is entirely free. The big downside is that the pedigrees are all public and any Tom, Dick or Harry can change your records. Some of the researchers are excellent but there are some real numpties who use that site. So what I am in the midst of doing is transferring manually all the information onto my pedigree on Findmypast which is not free but you can build your tree on there for free.

Genealogy and ancestry general - take two!
#5

Same here, its nigh on impossible to trace the Austrio-German lineage except through family legends. Hungary on the other hand is making birth and marriage records public on the internet and throgh a long out of print book I was able to trace my relative in the SS. The rest fought for Hungary in WWII and apparently the TamĂ si family can be traced all the way back to the 1100s as a Cadet branch of Clan Heder.

#6

Let's hope that in the not too distant future (before I am dead) they will digitalise more records. Ironically Americans can trace their distant German lineage further back than me even though I am half German!!!

#7

See this.

#8

Awesome stuff! Thanks, now here's the issue, my mother's grandfather came from Silesia which we well know was chopped off and given to the Poles after WWII, I'm not entirely sure which town they came from as there's alot of dead ends when researching. I do know one branch of that family went off and settled in Braunschweig c1919 so I'm thinking they came from the area NW of the Vistula river that Germany lost after WWI. Now my mother's grandmother came from Linz Austria, this was well documented in an old family bible that sadly was lost after a fire, but I was able to track her entry paperwork from Ellis Island and her home city was listed at Linz. As for Dad's side of the family the Tamasi's are fairly well known even today in Hungary and hailed from Transylvania while his grandmother was from Bukovina as best as I can tell. Again, thank you, I will use your information well.

#9

Some of my relatives owned the satanic mills in Manchester, that caused Engels and Marx to write the Communist manifesto.