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Hopefully once your full birth certificate arrives, that should be fine along with your parents' marriage certificate (and, if they need it, the declaration from the UK national archives).

Once you've got your full birth certificate I should think that will be helpful to take with you to your passport appointment.

In terms of your ancestors and finding out more about them, Igor was asking about the marriage certificate - does that give you some more details e.g. your grandfather's name and profession?

I have some more information .. my mother died recently and my sister was sorting through her papers and came across my fathers German Passport which gives his place of birth as Francenhof, KRS. Bromberg (I think the Francenhof is spelt incorrectly and should be Frankenhof as I can find no reference to Francenhof anywhere).

The marriage certificate says my dads father name was Wilhelm Marschall, occupation farmer (Frankenhof is a farm in Germany just outside Nuremberg)

I also have a document that I can't make out the wording, it looks like a Christening and confirmation booklet .. photo attached.

I have just read back and seen the posts about your father's marriage so it owuld seem congratulations are in order - you are already German! 

Liz

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German citizenship by being born in wedlock

Children born in wedlock between Jan. 1, 1914 and Dec. 31, 1974, acquired German citizenship only if the father was a German citizen at the time of their birth.

THat is what I thought .. however .. I contacted the German Embassy in London via email giving them all the information I have, there reply was -

Thank you for your enquiry.

If you are able to provide sufficient proof that your father was German in the time you were born in wedlock, then there should be no problem.

I'm now confused as to what else (if anything) they require.

I'.m now totally confused 

I've been looking at the German law in order to see if I can apply for German Citizenship. I've found conflicting information.

In one place it says that as my father never renounced his German citizenship and I was born before 1975 ie my father was a German Citizen at the time of my birth, that I automatically acquired German citizenship, and yet on another site it says that is only correct if my application for citizenship was sent before my 23rd birthday.

Can anyone clarify for me please.

Quote from: rosie99 on Sunday 06 September 20 10:53 BST (UK)

Do you have a copy of the 1951 marriage certificate as that may give information on his father.

I agree that this is the first document I'd try to obtain, as it should show father's name and occupation.

I cannot currently see a wedding for a Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall in 1951, although the death reference is there.

Have you found a marriage?

Yes I found the marriage in the indexes, it has been transcribed with a spelling error in the name .. Marochall instead of Marschall. I am in the process of sorting out a copy of the certificate.

Quote from: Colin Marschall on Sunday 06 September 20 03:16 BST (UK)

Quote from: Kloumann on Saturday 05 September 20 17:26 BST (UK)

Welcome to Rootschat, Colin

Have a look at this article

https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2018/ColoradoMagazine_Summer-Fall1979.pdf

hi thank you for your response,

The article is unavailable .. the site says it has been removed.

It's a PDF document - and downloads for me.

Got it now thank you .. wouldn't download yesterday.