GERMANY: Looking for Gmach in Rotz Germany and surrounding area.

[timsouch]

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.

[Berlin-Bob]

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

[Berlin-Bob]

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

   

[Rossi14]

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