I have been trying for many years to research my father’s family in Germany but with no success due mainly to the high cost of professional genealogists, my inability to speak German and the understandable reluctance of the staff at the archives in Hamburg to give out any information in regard to families. All I have is my grandfather’s names, date of birth and date of death, which I obtained from a photograph of the family grave that I found amongst some old photographs that I had.
My father and his family came to South Africa from Hamburg Germany in the early 1900's (approx between 1920 and 1930) and after getting a divorce, my grandfather (Georg Curt Adolph Dollmann) returned to Germany where he died on the 20 March 1953 and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg in the family grave site, which was demolished in 1976 due to lack of funds for the upkeep thereof.
I would appreciate any assistance I can get in regard obtaining information in regard to my grandfather and any related family .