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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: anderson100 on Saturday 27 February 10 18:10 GMT (UK)
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does anyone have an email address for heligoland. for either the pastor or the cemetary groundsman, or anyone who has information about the people who are buried there...
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This link might help (has phone, fax and E-mail):
http://www.kirche-helgoland.de/kg.root/one.adressen/index.html
Nigel
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Hi...Heligoland was British from 1807 to 1890 when it was swapped with the Germans for Zanzibar....
so my gg grandfather was born there in 1848 and when he moved to Liverpool was a BRITISH SUBJECT on the 1881 census.....where on earth would I find any records of him or his family when the Island was bombed and flattened during WW2....does anyone know if any records survived and who would have them ???? allan :)
just been told by another site kruess[at]museum-helgoland.de
allan
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Hi Allan
Have you check overseas BMDs?
Ken
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Hi evryone I am a new member. I am interested in Helgoland too. My great grandfather was a lighthouse keeper there about 1870 and married a local girl. I have her birth ,marriage and passport. I have e-mailed the museum and am waiting for a reply, but given what the British did to it, there may be nothing to find. I have been there twice and still have some distant cousins there. The Island was handed back to the residents in 1952, but there was hardly anything left standing or in one piece, including the graveyard. Its now a holiday resort favoured by Germans as it retains a duty free status(as far as I know that is still the case)
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I had a pm today about helgoland. Apparently I am unable to reply until I have made 3 postings. It was from garstonite, asking me how I went the Island.
First time I went I flew to Hamburg, then I had to get to Bremerhafen to catch a ferry, took a couple of hours I think, the weather was vile. When we got to Helgoland I had to transfer to a much smaller boat(that was fun!!!!) to get to the quayside. Second time I went I flew to Hamburg and changed to a local flight. I have looked on the net to find a flight but so far no luck.
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Thanks very much Towson....I`m planning a trip there in the near future....cheers...allan ;)
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my gx3grandfather was born in Heligoland in 1821 - please if anyone is doing some research over ther look out for a James black, father Frederick black.
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A question which is meant seriously: Will the record be for Frederick Black, or Friedrich Schwartz? In other words was English or German used on the island when it was British?
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Hi all,
we have quite a few queries about Helgoland/Heligoland. I found a site where they talk about finding Familienstammrollen (Pedigrees) of Helgoland families. If you click translate on your tool bar it gives you an English translation which is not too bad.
http://www.helgoland-genealogie.info/wp/forschungen/ahnenforschung/
Kontakt
Kpt. Erich-Nummel Krüss
Scharhörner Weg 604
D-27498 Helgoland
* Telefon: (0 47 25) 4 96
* Telefax: (0 47 25) 8 10 96
Perhaps greyingrey, who lives in Germany and has offered to do phone calls could be contacted to find out, what exactly is available from Mr. Krüss.
A t Familysearch http://www.rootschat.com/links/08tz/ you can order a film for the Stammrollen. I don't know if they are the originals or if they were filmed after restoration.
Perhaps the results could be posted here, that new posts can refer to it.
Regards Peonie
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Thanks very much Peonie.....just maybe I can unravel my gg grandfathers birth parents....fingers crossed....allan ;)
ADDED...sadly no records of the name Sacht.....thanks anyway ...ANY links are a bonus....cheers...allan :)
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To redroger I believe that German was used for the registrations - our family have certainly the tradition that they had the name schwartz but they were scots and british citizens and all records here call them black.
To paeonie - thanks I'll try that Phyl
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Thanks Phylscot for the information. I thought that might be the case, something for those who have connections with the island to be aware of.
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Greetings from New Zealand
My name is Sam Kupa and am searching for records of my great great grandfather Charles Louis Spitzenberg (or Karl Ludwig Spitzenberg) who was born in Helgoland on July 18th 1833. He apparently left and sailed to Samoa in the Pacific via New York. He married and died in Samoa and are trying to trace his lineage, parents, siblings etc. Can anyone help???
Kind regards
Sam
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Here is a link to gravestones from Helgoland, but I don't know how old they are.
http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/namelist.php?cem=364
And a futher link with family registers
http://www.online-ofb.de/famlist.php?ofb=helgoland&b=A&lang=de
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And here is a historic name list from helgoland
http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/namelist.php?cem=422
And here is a list from Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Norddeutschland with the parish registers from Helgoland, but the dates are not online.
http://www.kirchenbuchportal.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3708&be_kurz=31392e333420536469&ve_vnum=0#11
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I think you can ask here for parish registers from Helgoland
http://kirche-dithmarschen.de/das-kirchenkreisarchiv/
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Here is a link to gravestones from Helgoland, but I don't know how old they are.
http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/namelist.php?cem=364
And a futher link with family registers
http://www.online-ofb.de/famlist.php?ofb=helgoland&b=A&lang=de
Thank you Betty for your help I'll keep trying