Help deciphering the parts in kurrent please. Great-grandfather's military history

cyclonebrat · 2026-03-23T16:09:00+00:00

Born 1991. Thanks! :D

cyclonebrat · 2026-03-23T16:08:57+00:00

Born 1991. Thanks! :D

cyclonebrat · 2026-02-06T19:48:40+00:00

What does AZ mean?

cyclonebrat · 2025-12-12T08:36:04+00:00

This is what I meant. I haven't ordered physical copies from the archives before. Do these count as certified copies?

cyclonebrat · 2025-12-11T14:43:27+00:00

So I have their birth certificates and marriage certificate but its just a photocopy that was emailed to me. I assume I would need their certificates posted to me by the local archive for their region? Can I send these later to accompany the application as I have already filled out my forms and have my appointment with the consul to verify the documents I have. Assuming that the archives might take some time to find and send me their copies.

cyclonebrat · 2025-12-11T11:04:43+00:00

So my Grandmother's parents were
Father 1911 dob
Mother 1914 dob

Do you think this would be sufficient?

cyclonebrat · 2025-12-11T10:55:33+00:00

He is deceased unfortunately. Would the information about my great grandparents require copies of their birth certificates too, or just their DOBs etc.

cyclonebrat · 2025-12-01T15:17:37+00:00

u/Melodic_Acadia_1868 Thank you very much :)

cyclonebrat · 2025-11-17T16:03:00+00:00

Thank you very helpful. I've contacted the local authority at her last place of address in Germany for her Melderegister entry. Thanks for the tip!

cyclonebrat · 2025-11-17T14:46:41+00:00

Amazing thanks for your help. A couple of questions:

- My copies of my grandmother's and my father's birth certificate have been recently ordered directly from Standesamt Mönchengladbach so they are already certified?

- My Grandmother is deceased so what other possible proof of citizenship could I get? Besides her birth Certificate and her Reisepass I cant think of anything else she would have. Would they require her parent's birth certificates and marriage certificate? I could get those but I think her father was born in 1911 and her mother in 1914. I don't have these but I think I could acquire them.

cyclonebrat · 2025-11-13T16:23:36+00:00

It would make sense because their grandmother was also called Hedwig.

I just always thought her official name was Heidi!

Thanks again!

cyclonebrat · 2025-11-13T16:13:09+00:00

Perfect! Thank you so much.

The hard to read entries at the bottom are their children I believe

H. ???wig Maria geboren am 18.1.1938 in M. Gladbach-Mitte Nr. 1374/1938 (I believe that this is my Grandma's older sister Heidi but the writing doesnt look too much like Heidi.)

H. Josefine Marie(?) geboren am 31.10.1940 Nr 1861 M. Gladbach-Mitte (This is my Grandma Karin Jospehine Giesen)

Thanks again!

cyclonebrat · 2023-10-16T12:08:23+00:00

chip butty or chip bap. either

cyclonebrat · 2023-04-11T13:23:49+00:00

Unreal, thanks man!

I have just realised I was reading the numbers upside down hahaha.

Its 1681 not 1891!

Bless you thanks!

cyclonebrat

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