Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
That's Tallinn and there were a lot of congregations there: six Lutheran ones alone. You still have the choice of the fast but costly method of contacting the nearest Estonian Consulate for a birth certificate, which will be based on the church record, or the slow but fun method of finding it yourself. Both methods will tell you about her parents, your great-grand parents. The slow but fun method could tell you about other family members and will certainly give you more detail than the certificate.
Here goes: http://www.ra.ee/dgs/explorer.php also known as Saaga. Check the link to English in the top right corner. I think that you will need to register to read the records, but that's only so that those who run this service and need to justify it to the Estonian Parliament can provide it with demographic details on users.
So start with the second entry, Church records. Then try Lutheran church next if you know that fits your grandmother. After clicking on that, the Lutheran churches in Tallinn can be found near the bottom of the next list: "Tallinna praostkond" or Tallinn deanery.
Next look for links with Sündide or something starting with Sün- in the title. They will refer to births.
The next click takes you to a whole heap of German titles. Don't worry about what they mean; look for the dates in the fourth column from the left.
Actually, for the first praostkond I could not find a book with records as late as 1919. That rules that one out. See if you can find 1919 records for the other congregations. You won't be looking at transcriptions, by the way, but you will be reading through scans of the original records so you will be dealing with handwriting. Still I would expect your grandmother's name to stand out for you.
If you can't find her after looking through all the congregations, then it's back to the Consulate. However, you will have been learning something about how to find her parents' records once you have hers.
Good luck, and come back to this list if you have more questions.
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/estonia/messages/1509.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|