Portal:Memelland/Contact

Please send only questions relating to the Klaipėda Region.

Please also see the page Familienforschung Memelland

Thanks, and have a lot of success!!!

You have questions concerning your ancestors or you would like to add information about them

contact genealogy: If you have questions about your ancestors, please write to this contact address!
You have your documents only in paper form available and you can't scan the documents? Use your fax machine and send it directly to our employee in the Memellandteam

Holger Schimkus, FAX-Number.: + 4932224358138

You can help us respond to your questions, by providing as much of the following data as possible:

1. the person's personal data

last name (name at birth for women)

given name (please underline the preferred name)

birth (date and place)

christening/baptism (date and place)

church wedding (date and place)

civil marriage (date and place)

death (date and place)

funeral (date and place)

occupations with places of residence in the Klaipėda Region

religious affiliation

2. the person's father

last name

given name (please underline the preferred name) …

birth (date and place)

christening/baptism (date and place)

death (date and place)

funeral (date and place)

occupations with places of residence in the Klaipėda Region

religious affiliation

church wedding (date and place)

civil marriage (date and place)

3. the person's mother

last name (name at birth!)

given name (please underline the preferred name) …

birth (date and place)

christening/baptism (date and place)

death (date and place)

funeral (date and place)

occupations with places of residence in the Klaipėda Region

religious affiliation

4. Further details

• the person's spouses details as in 1-3
• the person's children details as in 1
  • their spouses details as in 1-3
    • their children details as in 1
• the person's siblings details as in 1
• half siblings details as in 1+2 or 1+3
  • their spouses details as in 1-3
    • their children details as in 1
• the person's grandparents details as in 1-3
• additional ancestors of the person details as in 1-3
  

Have you already found a person in the local family book, we would like to know the ID - Number shown on the page. The ID - Number is right in the line with the name of the person. This ID - Number is unique and directly linked to the personal data. Popular and frequently awarded first name in connection with same surname complicate our work and we must ask for a unique assignment in the circumstances. This can be avoided by specifying the ID you´ve already found.

You would like to contribute images

contact images: If you would like to contribute images to the GenWiki pages, please write to this contact address! Please provide as much of the following data as possible:

occasion of the photograph

location

date or year

photographer or owner of the photograph, if known

names and/or relationships of the people, from left to right

names and/or descriptions of the buildings, from left to right

If you have documents for the GenWiki pages, please write to this contact address!

You would like to contribute other documents or information

contact documents and information: If you have documents for the GenWiki pages, please write to this contact address!

You are writing for a different reason

contact for further questions: Send your questions and requests to this address.

You would like to get in touch with other people that are interested in the Klaipėda Region

Yahoo-group Memelland (Klaipėda Region)

Within this group meet researchers and interested people that deal with the northern most region of East Prussia – Memelland (the Klaipėda Region) – in the context of local history and genealogy. The Klaipėda Region was made up of the districts Memel, Heydekrug and Pogegen after World War I. Many of your questions might be answered by this group.

Registration and membership: free
Website: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/memelland/

Note: this group is not a forum for political debates.

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