Would you like to join the Germany Project? [closed]

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PLEASE ANSWER THIS POST TO JOIN THE GERMANY PROJECT: If you have a question about German Genealogy, please create a new G2G post with your question (click on "Ask A Question" above) and add the tag "Germany". Thanks!

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The Germany Project is seeking members to join us as we add and improve the profiles of our German ancestors (those that lived in the country we now know as the Federal Republic of Germany, formerly the German Confederation, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire, etc.).

The Germany Project covers all things German, including 16 regional teams, functional teams for translation and profile improvement, as well as historical, migrational and special-interest teams. If there’s not an existing team that covers your area of interest, just let us know and we can look into adding one. Take a look at our main PROJECT PAGE for links to our teams.

The Germany Project is a helpful community that encourages collaboration between people from all around the world. Along with sourcing, connecting and improving German profiles, our project is developing a German portal, which will make it much easier to collaborate with German-speaking members. The future of the Germany Project is bright with possibilities and it’s a very exciting time to join us.

Membership is open to all who have: 

• signed WikiTree’s Honor Code
• been a WikiTree member for at least 3 months, and
• made at least 100 contributions to our shared tree

Joining is easy … just post an ANSWER below (as opposed to a comment or reply - note that comments will be answered but then hidden).  Please state:

• that you'd like to join the project, 
• what your German-related interests are, and 
• what you want to contribute to the project.

Our only contribution requirements are: (1) you respond to twice yearly check-ins, and (2) you improve one German profile every 6 months.

The only thing you’ve got to lose is a brick-wall or two!

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P.S. You don't have to join the project to add the German Roots sticker to your profile ... simply copy the following and add it to your profile: 

{{German Roots Sticker}} 

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edited 1/26/21 to update membership requirements, 2/11 added sticker info, 9/27 added contrib requirements

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I would like to join. My Omas name was Berta Weiss (Alternate spelling: Weiß) she was born on November 22, 1932 in Lambsheim, Germany to Friedrich weiß and Elisabeth Weiß (Born Gimbel).  

Berta's grandfather's name was Wilhelm, but I'm not sure if it was her grandfather on her mother's side or her dad's.

Berta's father, Friedrich was in the Wehrmacht, He got shot in the face and left for dead by a SS officer for disobeying orders, but survived.

Her mother, Elisabeth was a house wife.

They were protestant.

Their hometown was Frankenthal, the street they lived on ended at the entry gates, and across the street from a plant that Friedrich worked at.

Berta had her first child named Wolfgang Weiß, with Unknown person in Germany. Unknown was abusive to her, and she left him. Later on She met my grandfather, Francis Clifford Chenette (Born July 28, 1929 in New Hampshire) who was in the US Army and stationed in Germany, She waited tables in a restaurant and he couldn't read German so She translated the menu for him. They married in Germany first but the US didn't recognize their marriage from Germany so they remarried in the US. They got married on a military base.

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Berta and Francis had 2 children together named Michael Steven Chenette born on September 14th, 1961 in Montgomery AL, and Frank Charles Chenette born on February 6, 1967 in Saint Louis, Minnesota.

Friedrich and Elisabeth only visited the states one time to visit berta and her family in Florida around 1976 or 1977.

Friedrich died around 1977 or 1978 from a stroke.  

After Friedrich died, Elizabeth went to live with bertas family for a couple of years, but missed Germany so she moved back and died around 1983.

Francis chenette died in 2015, and Berta died in 2018.

Answer 1

Hi Traci, I have managed to log into the Germany Project but can't copy the german roots sticker to my profile page.

I would also like to join one of the Australian groups ,probably the Prussian emigration one.

Thanks, Fran Pedler

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Hi Fran, I sent you an email.

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Hi Fran. You have been added to Prussian emigration to Australia.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Prussian_Settlement_in_Australia_-_German_Australians. Please ask if you have any questions.

Answer 2

I would like to join the German Project. My maternal ancestors came from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's northernmost state.

Surnames include:
Boysen (Almdorf); Brodersen (Ellerbuell); Carstensen (Bredstedt); Hargens (Heide); Ingwersen (Hattstedt); Petersen (Hattstedt); Sander ( Dellstedt)

I have struggled with translating documents, names, and naming patterns.

My grandfather, Johann Carstensen immigrated to America in 1901 when he was 15 years old with his brother Paul who was 18 at the time. They went to live with their uncle Christian August Ingwersen in Chicago. Many family members came by way of chain migration.

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Hi Marilyn, I sent you an email about joining the project.

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Hi Tracy,

I received your email.

Thank you.

Marilyn

Answer 3

Yes I would like to join. My German interests are 1500s to 1745 in the Rhine land, Phfalz and Baden Wurtenburg, My Helmantoler ancestors were Mennonites that came to Pennsylvania in 1745 and settled near Fredrick Maryland. I am a heavy contributor to FamilySearch.org. I will keep my part of WikiTree synchronized with dates, places and names in FamilySearch.org

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Hi Michael, you are already a member of the project. I assume you are responding to the check-in comments/email I sent, so I will mark you as checked in. Thanks.

Answer 4

Hello!

I am answering this post as a request to join the Germany Project. My Ancestry DNA results show that I am 48% Germanic with emphasis on Central and Northern Germany. I know part of this includes Switzerland, as my paternal Grandmother's father immigrated to the USA from Switzerland in 1911/1912. I have a few questions I would like to ask regarding other members of my German immigrant family, and have added their profiles. Thanks!

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Hi Sarah, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 5

Hi Traci. Would you please add me to the Germany Project? My husband is a Frankfurter and we now live in Australia. I have researched his family back a few generations and will be working on these profiles to improve their quality. Thanks Cherryl

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Hi Cherryl, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 6

Hello Traci. I would like to join the project as I have family and records from areas around Niedersachsen and Hesse. I, like everyone else, would like to work on this one tree to improve the genealogical record and avoid duplication. I have transcribed some records from Matricula and have others that were transcribed for me that I would like to add. I look forward to working with everyone

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Hi William, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 7

I would like to join this project and I would like help with my Parade and Putzke family line

Comments

Hi Christopher, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

Answer 8

My family immigrated from Insel Föhr in the1870s. I have extensive data from that branch. I am specifically interested in the Schleswig Holstein/Föhr pages. I have not uploaded trees onto the Wiki but could...most of my info is on ancestry.com.

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Hi Candyce, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 9

I want to join the Germany Project.

My wife and I both have German ancestry..

I have added profiles for all of our German ancestors (that I could find and authenticate)  and I want to see if I can find more of our German ancestors.

Comments

Hi Scott, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

Answer 10

I answered your questions and received an email stating that I needed to answer your questions. Tiessen - 117.

Please help as I don't understand what further questions you want me to answer.  do you need proof that I have grandparents from Germany and Prussia?

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Would you like to join the Germany Project Connie?

Answer 11

I'm very interested in joining this project as my family appeared to be 99% German until recently when I discovered we were alot English also. I do know both sides of my family come from all over Germany.  Will Silesia be covered in the project?  Family there is one of my largest brick walls.  Janice Wall-Buker

Comments

Hi Jan, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 12

My great grand grand parents came from Goslar, Niedersachen. George Ernest August Schmidt 1816-1858 and Johanne Jane Caroline Wilhelmine Leinig

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Hi Paul, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

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Hi Paul, I have a lot of family connection around Burra, my father was born in Kooringa. Your contribution will be interesting.

Answer 13

Hi, I would like to join both the Germany and Prussian projects. My paternal grandfather, Ernst Max Hoppe, was born in Berlin in 1887 His mother was a Richter from kreis Randow, Pomerania, Prussia. Grandfather's paternal parents came from Muldszen, kreis Gerdauen, Konigsberg, Prussia.

Comments

Hi Charlette, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

Answer 14

I would like to find some information about my great grandfather and his family who came from Prussia.

Comments

Hi Dianne, I sent you an email about joining the project.

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Hi Dianne, I'm interested in 19th century migration to Australia from Prussia. I looked at your family tree, and noticed you have a great Grandmother born at Pilow, which is now the small settlement of Pilów, 120 East of Szczecin in Poland. 

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Thank you for your response.  I was unsure about the spelling as it was spelt differently on several documents.  I found it very difficult to track down which Carl Riek was my great grandfather.  It appeared to be a very common name and there were several possibilities.  I was lucky enough to find an obituary which gave me sufficient details to identify him.  There are several publications re German migration.  Let me know if I can help you in any way.  Regards Dianne

Answer 15

I'd like to join the Germany Project.  My great Grandfather Peter Thomsen and great grandmother Catherine Jurgensen immigrated from the Schleswig Holstein area in 1888.  I found their immigration record showing date of arrival in New York as 25 Jun 1888 along with their son Thomas.  They were going to Omaha, Ne so I believe they had friends or relatives there.but I've been unable to determine who they are.

Comments

Hi Karen, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

Answer 16

Hi Traci,

My paternal grandfather (Georg Otto) was born in Brandenburg an der Havel and very young immigrated to Brazil alone. He went to live in São João da Boa Vista in the state of São Paulo. He was an influential person in the city and married Catharina Kühl, became a widower and later married Ida Agnes Schmeiske born in Peitz Cottobus. My father Emílio was born from this last one. From my grandfather I have now obtained information about his hometown, since my grandmother Ida, I have many family members arriving in the 1700s. For this reason I would like to participate in this project to add my family and discover new relatives.

Comments

Hi Paulo, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

Answer 17

Hi Traci

I have 2 German families on my maternal side. My 2xgreatgrandfather he came over from Bavaria, Germany with his parents when he was a young boy. They were Roman Catholic.

My 3xgreatgrandfather came over from Wittenberg, Germany. I don't know much about him. He married twice and had several children.

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Hi Dallace, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.

Answer 18

Hi Traci,

I have German roots on both sides of my family, and my surname, Pagels, is a German surname that was anglicized from Pagel when immigrants left Germany for America. I also have surnames in my family of Kroll, Moeller, and Deutsch, all of German Origin. Would love to help out!

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Hi Austin, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 19

Hello Traci, I have a few ancestral lines that trace to Germany: Geist, Wagner, and Koch.  I am seeking input on how to continue my research in Europe. I am not very in-depth on International research, but I can help with Ohio and some other states if members need it.

Thank you, Jerry Geist

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Hi Jerry, I sent you an email about joining the project.

Answer 20

Hi, I would like to join the Germany project, to find more about my ancestors in Germany. My paternal grandfather was born near Kassel, immigrated in 1914, and met my grandmother here in NY state. Her family were immigrants from the Mecklenburg area in the 1860’s I believe. I want to find out more.

Thank you

Bob Schafer.

Schafer-1463

Comments

Hi Bob, I posted a comment on your profile page about joining the project.