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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: timsouch on Monday 10 September 07 15:49 BST (UK)
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I am looking for Gmach from Germany Rotz, Birkmulh, englemulh and around the cham districk but can't get there to look up the parish or church book. is there any where online i can find them or any other way of getting the information as i am new to germany genealogy.
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Hi Timsouch,
there are very view parish registers online in Germany. Usually you have to go there yourself, or write to the diocese, requesting details.
So you need to know exactly: name, date, parish
Sorry,
Bob
Ps with Rotz, do you mean Rötz in Bavaria ?? (also spelt Roetz, without the umlaut Ö)
this site: http://gov.genealogy.net/index.jsp German place names gives
Rötz, Oberpfalz, Bayern
Cham, Oberpfalz, Bayern
Birkmühle in Wenzenbach, Oberpfalz, Bayern and
Birkmühle in Pemfling, Oberpfalz, Bayern
the nearest I found to englemulh was
Engmühle in Postmünster, Rottal-Inn, Niederbayern, Bayern
Bayern is Bavaria, Niederbayern is Lower Bavaria
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There is a searchable german site: http://gedbas.genealogy.net/index.jsp where people upload their GEDCOMs
GMACH (entered in Nachname:) finds two entries:
Susanna GMACH * 1742 Birkm?hl ~ 1742 Grafenkirchen + 1814 Pemfling
Paul GMACHL * 1852
* = born
~ = baptised
+ = died
no details for Paul, but the place names for Susanna look familiar. Any bells ringing ?
There is an e-mail address for further contact.
Bob
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There is also a Gmach family in Switzerland. They emigrated around 1910 from Bavaria (Bayrischer Wald - Bavarian Forest) to Wichtrach, a small village in the Kanton Bern. Both families, the one in Bavaria (close to Cham) and the one in Wichtrach, own a sawmill and deal wood with each other. The Bavarian one has a website:
http://www.holzwerke-gmach.de Maybe it is worth sending them a mail.
I didn't find one for the Swiss Gmach family.
As Bob already said, there is not much online. I don't know the places Birkmuhl or Engelmuhl, but there is also no kinship book for Rötz. But maybe you can find the parish registers at the LDH.
Rossi