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I wondered if you knew about this website.. I found the gedcom = GEDBAS page very useful for researching German connections. As well as searching just for a surname of just for a given name, you can even search by town name and every surname entered by an am.researcher who has an ancestor in that town is shown in the results.
http://www.genealogienetz.de/index_en.htmlI realise things have changed since I started and finished my German research, which I did by looking in my local telephone directory to see if there was a "Church of Latter Day Saints" in the area (allied to familysearch) . A phone call to ask if they could provide a micro-fiche of the parish church I was interested in and would they order a copy for me at a (then) cost of £2.50. The earliest census was end of the year 1851 and called a "building and people count" , Some parish clergymen only gave the number of people living in his parish, others listed names of well to do people plus the number of "others". Later end of year "counts" were far more detailed and helpfully giving religions, which saved money when approaching churches and or church archives for family records.
The Ev. Lutheran churches in the UK give far more detail than the usual parish records. I was lucky and found my grandmother's baptism in Hull, Yorkshire, which listed that she had been named in favour of her German grandmother Sophie Ehlers in Saltzgitter - How exciting was that do you think !!!
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many historical Lutheran records remaining, I think the chief Lutheran church is in Liverpool which could give more information:
"The German congregation in Hull also started its existence as part of the Anglican Church. Founded in 1844 by the Bishop of Hull, it was not until four years later that it became Lutheran in Faith and Practice. Other German congregations established in this period are Manchester (1853), Bradford (1876), London-Sydenham (1875), South Shields (1879), Newcastle (1890), and Middlesbrough (1897).https://helmut-hild-haus.de/english/archives.htmlI was lucky and found my ancester was amongst a handful of Yorkshire Police Archive records of "Alien Registration". It showed he had arrived with a musician uncle when he was 10 years one day old. Although his three sons were on active duty in the Army WWII and he was married to an English woman, he still had to report to the local police station each day during WWI and also WWII until his death aged 86 in 1942. He obviously suffered from dementia as the final police report stated he couldn't recall the name of his mother (who my own grandmother was named after).
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