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To trace your ancestors, we consult a wide range of sources and, thanks to our experience, have an excellent understanding of where to look for specific types of information.
In order to find all existing records related to your ancestors, we consult the following sources:
- Church records
- Civil records
- Military records
- Passenger lists
- Online databases
- Emigration permissions
- Emigration records
- Naturalization records
- Censuses
- Graves
- Newspaper articles
- Letters
- School records
- University records
- Prison records
- Residency files
- Address books
- Tax records
- Land and property records
- Your DNA results (if available)
- etc.
Moreover, archives outside Germany hold collections relating to Germans in Poland, the Czech Republic, France, and the USA. Every month, we send out between 50 and 100 requests to various archives on behalf of our clients. Thanks to our experience, we know exactly which archive to contact for each type of record.
Curious if we can help you with your research?
Request a non-binding offer from us — we will send it to you within 24 hours.
Where do we find all this information?
Thanks to digitization, more and more records are now available online. Several primary sources can be accessed through websites such as Matrikula, Archion, various state archive websites, GenWiki, and many others.
However, many records are still neither digitized nor indexed. For these, we consult archives all over Germany. Germany has always been a very federal country, which means that records are held at different levels — city, county, regional, state, and federal. In addition, there are Catholic and Protestant archives (often organized at the county or regional level), as well as archives responsible for specific time periods, such as the Prussian Privy State Archives or the Arolsen Archives.
Four Steps to Your Family Tree
(1) Write to Us
Send us an email detailing how we can assist you and all the information you have about the ancestor(s) you'd like to learn about.
Email: fehmergenealogy@outlook.de
(2) Free Preliminary Check
We will conduct a quick check to ensure that sources are available for the individual(s) in question. Some records may be irretrievably lost, so we want to ensure that we can genuinely help.
(3) Receive a non binding offer
If the initial assessment is successful, we will provide you with a customized offer package. We are happy to tailor the offer to meet your specific needs. Once all parties agree on the terms, we will commence the research.
(4) Research
We will carry out the research and provide you with regular updates as we proceed. You can look forward to receiving the results.
We perform the check in Step 2 to avoid unnecessary costs for you and unnecessary work for us. However, despite this check, we may occasionally hit dead ends and be unable to locate the requested information. No professional genealogist can guarantee results, and this applies to us as well. If this happens, we will inform you transparently to ensure fair pricing.