Records in Germany (1905-10) for an illegitimate child's father?

Question

My German grandmother, Anna Elisabeth/e Berg bore my illegitimate father in Frankfurt, DE, when she was about 16 years old in 1906-7. Would she have been required to make records for her newborn (or somewhat older) in that time and place?  

My father, Anna's son, was born out of wedlock (yes, simply knowing that bothered him) in Frankfurt during those years (leaning toward 1907). 

Since these records SEEM unavailable, how would you advise further research to continue? Which one (or ones) might be most likely. 

I'm 80 now and those living at the time did not communicate about any of this, except what appears above. I'm stuck probably because I only know the rudiments of genealogy. Please assist me if you can by providing useful/verifiable routes for this integral family research. 

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Have you tried jewishgen.org. ?

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I haven't Eddie. I don't have a name for my paternal GF.

Jewishgen.org is an unknown for me, though I'm at least one quarter to one half Jewish. A new map of an unknown nation.

I'd become an auto-follower of the White Rabbit.

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You have to join. That's free. I'm using it for hunting down my Holocaust profiles. It's hard to navigate at first but once you get oriented, records are astonishing, most not even found in Ancestry or family search

https://www.jewishgen.org

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You'd search under Gramma's name and see if there might be a synagogue record on Dad, birth, bar mitzvah, etc naming other family members.

Takes time.

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Did you look for his naturalization application for exact dates and places?

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Eddie, I'm so grateful for your help. But . . . /And:   You may not have time for this: if I join the group and become overwhelmed, will you be able to answer my questions?

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Dunno if I can answer questions. Some answers easy to find, some not. I can't do any lengthy involved research. Paycheck job, community activities and I promised Gaile Connolly to build up Holocaust project.

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Thanks, Eddie. I mean it.

If I thought I could help you w/ the Holocaust project, I'd say so. While I need to build my skills, I think I might not be "UP" to that one. Let me know, though.

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Eddie, I tried getting into Jewishgen about last Friday or earlier this week.

Stymied. so far.

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To access jewishgen records, you have to join. Become a member.This doesn't cost anything. But you will get emails begging for donations several times a week.

Answer 1

There is a Frankford In Sussex County Delaware,What was

your fathers full name.

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Wayne, Hi. This is meant to be a kind response that's factual:

* DE is the abbreviation for Germany in English and German

* I wrote that my GM Anna Berg bore her son, my father, in Germany (DE).

I could state more but that is enough to clarify, probably, the following:  I want to know "if German records were made for the illegitimate children of the era at their birth."

May I politely overstate that idea differently: Please make sure you read carefully before you answer anyone's question. I BELIEVE doing that helps all of us.

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Roberta, the way you wrote it (Frankfurt, DE) it is easily possible to understand it as Frankford, Delaware, especially if the reader does not know your previous postings about your grandmother.

This what happened here is the best example why WikiTree Leaders actually tend to tell the users NOT to use abbreviations. DE also can be Delaware, CA can be California or Canada etc. etc. It is also the reason why I personally kick out abbreviations in locations whenever I find them.

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Here's an add on to my former note:  I and a great many others would understand it, but not all readers of it.

Frankfurt DE is where my father was born. If you look it up, the definition will say Frankfurt, Germany, without anyone explaining  what it means. I've never thought of it any other way. But then I've read since I was 9 years old. My mother prompted me to read since she never had an education but was highly intelligent and wanted me to have TOOLS.

I DON'T know the abbreviations to Canada, Spain, Ukraine and almost any place in the rest of the world, so I'd write them out.

I will write out such place names in the future. I treasure your correction. You too want me to have good tools.
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My Old note is here: Thanks for the steer, Jelena.  And of course you're right. I won't assume things I've come to think are everyone's "basic."

    Just think of me as "blind in one eye." I will try to follow your directions. Long habits are hard to break.