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12 apr 2024 · Guide to Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy before 1945: birth records, marriage records, death records, both church and civil registration, compiled family history, and finding aids.
23 ott 2023 · Between 1850 and 1890, Mecklenburg with a population of only 420,000 people had some 148,000 people emigrate, the majority to the United States. Most of these emigrants were peasants, struggling in poverty, looking for opportunities for a better life.
Census for Mecklenburg-Schwerin is available at the Family History Centers for 1704, 1751, 1819, 1867, 1890 and 1900. There are also a few early census records for the Duchy of Mecklenburg for 1633-1634, 1677, and 1689 (microfilm #068,934).
Many of the 261,000 Mecklenburgers that left their home country (the Grand duchies Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz) between 1820 and 1890 would have answered just that, if one had asked them that question.
20 giu 2023 · These are genealogy links to Mecklenburg online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
Mecklenburg, historic region of northeastern Germany, located along the Baltic Sea coastal plain, from the Bight of Lübeck about 100 miles (160 km) eastward. It is now included in the German Land (state) of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania (q.v.). By the 7th century ad the Slavic Obodrites and the Lutycy.
From 1873 on the German currency units were Mark and Pfennig (one Mark was 100 Pfennig). And here some prices: in 1819 one "Pfund" (550 g) from 3 to 4 Schilling (source: Flasch, S.: Die Kosten einer Reise von Friedland nach Sternberg vor 120 Jahren.
