The second gravestone was for Gottlob Heinrich Bergmann, the third for Sophie-Dorothea Magdalena Bergmann, née Jungblut. You were very lucky to find a historical graveyard, as graves are not eternal in Germany. Most are leased for 25 years or similar and vanish if after that nobody is there or willing to pay for another period of time.
That is so cool you could read that all! And wow - now that I know about the leasing situation that makes this experience even cooler. I’ll have to do some more research about if these people are related to me. I had a free trial of Ancestry but cancelled it before I left for Germany. Thanks for decifering the gravestones!!
@@LaurenMarie32300 My grandparents still had a lot of books printed in Gothic script, so I got a lot of practice :) (And we still went over it in school.) I also only had a trial for ancestry, it is quite pricey. Try familysearch, it´s free and very comprehensive. Just be sure to verify everything by actually looking at the image of the original document. All these online archives are fraught with transcription errors and mistakes copied into different family trees a thousand times over. Before 1873, there were mostly only church records and dpending on how clearly the person entering data was writing, deciphering can be challenging. Good luck!
If you want to find out how to search for family connections, maybe watching how Ashton and Jonathan from "Black Forest Family" aka "Type Ashton" (new name) went about it could be a good start. They actually found living relatives in the villages they were from! The best place to go to are Lutheran or Catholic churches (depending on your family's membership back then), as you'll find most important dates of people's lives in church registers. You just need the full name of your relative and his birth and baptism dates. Ideal would also be the names of his parents and siblings and some birth and death dates as well. These dates alone could already help you to find out more.
Thanks so much for the tips! I have my great great grandpa’s birth certificate, but it’s also in old German script so it’s hard to read the names of the parents. I’m pretty sure he was Catholic at the time though. I’ll have to see if I can connect to a church and get more info. Thanks for the tips!
@@LaurenMarie32300 Sometimes, librarians or people from church can read the old script. I can read it, too, but not sure how to help you with that in practice ;) Good luck! Genealogy is incredibly interesting once you get into it!
The second gravestone was for Gottlob Heinrich Bergmann, the third for Sophie-Dorothea Magdalena Bergmann, née Jungblut. You were very lucky to find a historical graveyard, as graves are not eternal in Germany. Most are leased for 25 years or similar and vanish if after that nobody is there or willing to pay for another period of time.
That is so cool you could read that all! And wow - now that I know about the leasing situation that makes this experience even cooler. I’ll have to do some more research about if these people are related to me. I had a free trial of Ancestry but cancelled it before I left for Germany. Thanks for decifering the gravestones!!
@@LaurenMarie32300 My grandparents still had a lot of books printed in Gothic script, so I got a lot of practice :) (And we still went over it in school.)
I also only had a trial for ancestry, it is quite pricey. Try familysearch, it´s free and very comprehensive. Just be sure to verify everything by actually looking at the image of the original document. All these online archives are fraught with transcription errors and mistakes copied into different family trees a thousand times over. Before 1873, there were mostly only church records and dpending on how clearly the person entering data was writing, deciphering can be challenging. Good luck!
5:02 lot of mountain men without mountains
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Someone informed me that Bergmann means “miner” not “mountain man” and that actually makes a lot more sense 😂
@@LaurenMarie32300 whattttt
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The Bergmans that came to America moved near mountains.
If you want to find out how to search for family connections, maybe watching how Ashton and Jonathan from "Black Forest Family" aka "Type Ashton" (new name) went about it could be a good start. They actually found living relatives in the villages they were from! The best place to go to are Lutheran or Catholic churches (depending on your family's membership back then), as you'll find most important dates of people's lives in church registers. You just need the full name of your relative and his birth and baptism dates. Ideal would also be the names of his parents and siblings and some birth and death dates as well. These dates alone could already help you to find out more.
Thanks so much for the tips! I have my great great grandpa’s birth certificate, but it’s also in old German script so it’s hard to read the names of the parents. I’m pretty sure he was Catholic at the time though. I’ll have to see if I can connect to a church and get more info. Thanks for the tips!
@@LaurenMarie32300 Sometimes, librarians or people from church can read the old script. I can read it, too, but not sure how to help you with that in practice ;) Good luck! Genealogy is incredibly interesting once you get into it!