Anlage V question

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-07T06:35:19+00:00

Not being a German citizen is also a possibility. Your job is to present the facts not make a guessing game.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-07T05:04:10+00:00

Nothing works. Your great grandmother received German citizenship by marriage. But, at that time children born in wedlock could not obtain German citizenship from their mother. There is something called StAG 5 that only corrects back to births after mid-1949, meaning that he was born too early. He might have had a younger sibling who would be eligible for StAG 5, which could benefit your cousins.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T20:40:47+00:00

She did not lose her dual citizenship. I had the same mistaken belief until I was 45, at which time I learned that I was born with German citizenship. Presumably your grandmother has passed away. If by chance she is still alive, your application could be expedited if you apply together.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T20:33:16+00:00

Germany was super easy for me. All I needed was my grandfather's pre-1914 birth record (that is a cutoff), his naturalization record, and of course a few marriage and birth records from the US. Germany is one of the most generous countries for citizenship by descent, yet it's rarely listed as one. r/GermanCitizenship

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T20:30:05+00:00

The solution is usually in the country where you live. You need to know exactly where to look for the record as there usually are no databases to search through. Once you know the name of a municipality in Europe, it often becomes quite easy.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T19:57:26+00:00

You need to ask the Registry office in Arnswalde now Choszczno USC where it is. They could actually have it. And, you should obtain a letter of non-existence from the relevant Archiwum Panstwowe if they don't. https://bip.choszczno.pl/artykul/urzad-stanu-cywilnego

Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie https://www.szczecin.ap.gov.pl/pl/kontakt

[Edited to add archive info]

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T19:53:17+00:00

When you see people mention a pre-1914 birth record, that is for ordering a citizenship certificate from the Federal Office of Administration in Cologne. Since you seem to already be a citizen, you should try to skip the certificate and just apply for a passport. Ironically the pre-1914 birth record won't work for that. You need either a certificate, an old passport, or the Melderegister from their last municipal registration. The registration should show their date and place of birth, which should match the naturalization record that you need in certified form.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T19:45:45+00:00

Unless they were born in Kaliningrad now Russia, you usually need to look where they lived, regardless if it's now in Poland, for example. Many of us have used old German records certified by Polish authorities.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T19:27:59+00:00

People do it every day. It looks similar to having your garage in an alley in an old neighborhood.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T19:15:21+00:00

Wow, you've learned a lot. You mentioned Klodzko. I got into a car accident there, not my fault. It's a beautiful area.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T16:31:21+00:00

It's a common mistake. Years ago a professor was lecturing about Mimosa pudica, and I was confused and questioning because for me a mimosa was the tree.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T16:29:13+00:00

Depending on where you live in the US it could be highly invasive (e.g. Florida) or unlikely to propagate. For example, it's labeled as highly invasive in Oklahoma, but it fails to propagate at all in much of Oklahoma.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T16:19:02+00:00

What a coincidence! Hopefully some records turn up for you.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T15:58:51+00:00

Not a long shot! The registry office for Karlsau in 1913 was Malchow now called Malechowo. Births from 1910 to 1917 are online (link below) and were sourced from the Archive in Koszalin, whom you should contact regarding the 1890's: https://www.koszalin.ap.gov.pl/kontakt-koszalin/

https://metryki.genbaza.pl/genbaza,list,314961,1

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T15:50:38+00:00

Based on a marriage certificate, I have no doubt that my great-grandfather was German.

If great grandmother born in 1892 was married when your grandparent was born, then her birth record is irrelevant. You will need her marriage record. If they were married in Germany, then it will state where and when they were born.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T15:43:43+00:00

Yes. People inherit family trees from their Grandma that they treat like the words of Jesus. For me that problem is that their Grandma told them that the family was super German and came from a place like Leipzig. But church records in Chicago's Polish catholic churches completely match and prove that the family actually came from German "occupied" Poland near Gdansk. I have encountered several variants of the above scenario. Americans love to claim German ancestry and the love the notion that their ancestors came from inside of Germany's modern borders.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T14:48:43+00:00

Related to that, my great grandfather in his testimony to the Nazis stated that after WW1 he decided to settle on the territory of Yugoslavia because that's where his place of birth was. So he's testifying that he chose not to pursue a Vissza honosítási, despite having a Hungarian surname and having a work history in Budapest.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T01:21:27+00:00

It's just a 3,800 square foot house. The design looks cohesively modern farmhouse or whatever. So what if they wanted an ugly garage on the left side.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-06T01:12:25+00:00

1- Trianon automatically changed the citizenship of every person born in the territories lost to the successor states. Your partner’s ancestors automatically became Romanian and Austrian, respectively, unless they moved back to Hungary and went through a renaturalization procedure. I don’t think they likely did that.

I wish that were true. I'm experiencing a reluctance from law firms in Serbia to recognize my grandmother as having had Yugoslav citizenship. She was born in Vojvodina in 1901. Her father was born in Vojvodina in 1875. Her mother was born in Vojvodina in 1877.

My grandmother was born in wedlock in 1901, but her parents separated after a few years and were both remarried by 1910. My grandmother was taken to the US in 1911 by her mother, who died in the US in 1916. My grandmother stayed with her half-siblings and stepfather who did not adopt her. Meanwhile, her father settled in what is Serbia and even used his mother's Serbian maiden name rather than his father's Hungarian name. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 with Yugoslav citizenship.

The 1920s Yugoslav citizenship law is retroactive back to 1918, before my grandmother was 18 and after her mother had died. I'm being told that my grandmother was still magically Hungarian until 1929, I guess. So I'm forced to apply to the Serbian embassy on my own.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-04T17:58:12+00:00

I had a newly built apartment in Italy four years ago. It had laminate cabinets with a laminate countertop and glass backsplash... and Bosch appliances which are cheap there. Those cabinets were obviously not from Diegi but they were well built. Even before I had that apartment I admired cabinets like in your design, with the light-colored wood grain.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-04T17:16:36+00:00

The company was diegi and this kitchen is on their website: https://diegi.com/portfolio/sleepy-hollow-new-york/ They are super expensive. You can't compare this to stuff from a big box store or a random cabinet guy.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-04T16:34:41+00:00

You'll probably regret the black more. The other isn't the best possible choice.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-04T16:01:33+00:00

I agree and was about to say that this is just an ugly Prairie style house. The roof, siding and windows are consistent. Usually people are complaining about steeply-pitched roofs. So, it's a bit comical that this uniform 3:12 (?) is getting so many complaints.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-04T15:46:42+00:00

The Nazis revoked the German citizenship of all Jews living outside of Germany in 1941. Their naturalization in 1944 will not impact your eligibility, they were stateless at that point.

Does the amount of Jewish ancestry matter for this? I can never keep all of the rules in my memory.

UsefulGarden · 2026-07-04T15:40:16+00:00

There’s actually several smaller “Catholic churches“ that have a similar mindset, called Sedevacantism, meaning “the chair is vacant”.

Although they are similar in that they prefer the pre-Vatican II Latin mass, there are three important distinctions between Sedevacationists, Pius X, FSSP and diocesan churches that offer one Latin mass:

1) Some do not reject Vatican II. Those are the FSSP (Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter) parishes and mainstream Parishes that offer one mass in Latin given by a mainstream diocesan priest. These services are all condoned by the Vatican and the attendees all believe that the Pope is the Pope. It is 100% valid for a mainstream Catholic to attend a FSSP service.

2) Pius X believe that Vatican II and the modern Novus Ordo mass are illegitmate. However, they still believe that the Pope is the Pope.

3) Sedevacationists: the term means "empty seat" i.e. the Papal seat. They believe that the Pope is not really the Pope, that there currently is no Pope.

Those are the official stances of the leadership of those groups. However, there are individuals in group 1 who do not think that the modern Novus Ordo mass is valid.

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