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Do the aforementioned certificates actually exist?
If so, are they equivalent to the British BMDs?

Yes.
Civil registration began in Germany in 1792 ...
Here is a general overview ...
https://www.thoughtco.com/germany-vital-records-1422812
and this website lists where you can find various records online ^(*)
https://germanroots.com/germandata.html
but as you can see, the records are "all over the place", there is no german equivalent to the "GRO", so you will need more information to be able to know where to look.

^(*) mostly pay-sites
Sorry - in your other topic, when I said there isn't much online, I meant in the sense of equivalents to freeBMD, freeREG, freeCEN, and other such (free) sites.

Bob

Going back a step ....

Where does this information come from ?

.... the birth of a Frida (other known spellings Frieda, Freda, Freeda) Reinhardt,  April 1879, Yonitz, Germany.

Is it a typed record (transcription) or do you have a an image of  a hand-written record. ?
If hand-written, perhaps you could post the relevant section here, so that we can check the place name.

(Reinhardt is a common surname in Germany, so any way of limiting the search will be useful )

Bob

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I expect there are others here who use it as well, so if you wanted to try it and had any questions, there should be someone who can help.

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regards,
Bob

Hello Sentinel,

Welcome to Rootschat

are you more interested in their lives in Britain, or also in their ancestors in Germany ?

Here are a couple of links, where you might be able to find out more:

The RootsChat German Pork Butchers Database
Searching for ABENDSCHEIN shows 4 entries
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/dbsig/dbsig-quick-search.php?dbsig_num=2&letter=A&surname=ABENDSCHEIN
All entries are from 'paulne', who has said here (with some details)
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=767549.0
that she is related to this family. Perhaps you could get in touch with her.

And if you enter ABENDSCHEIN in the RootsChat search box, there is another mention of a Johan Jakob A.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=438133.0

Good luck!

Bob

Hi Jessica,

Welcome to RootsChat

Unfortunately Gwendolin made this post (her one and only !) in 2005 and hasn't been on RootsChat since.

Maybe she just decided not to bother searching her Mueller (Müller, Muller) side of the family when she noticed that it's a very common surname in Germany - similar to it's translation: Miller in english-speaking countries.

regards,
Bob

ps. @ anybody researching european surnames:
Surnames developed in many countries out of peoples' trades and professions, so these names tend to be very common, either in the original language or the anglicised versions.

So the more we can pin it down with details of places, dates and other information, the better our chances of finding the right ones.

there is a wiki page here, showing the most common names (with english translations !):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_surnames_in_Germany
If you hover the cursor over a name, you get more details, sometimes with variant spellings.

Added:
for more information see also this topic:
Topic: Germany: Distribution and frequency of surnames
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=366583.0