u/BlyatBoi762

Hi, so I've been trying to put together my family tree. I'm from Australia, and one side of my family is of German settler stock, mostly coming from Lower Silesia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, Oldenburg and Hannover.

I've found myself hitting something of a brick wall in tracing my ancestors back any further than those who settled in Australia and were recorded in our archives. Would there be any good online archives to access Lutheran Church records from these regions? Especially territories like much of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Posen and Lower Silesia which are largely in modern day Poland. Were these Church records preserved or destroyed following Ww2?

Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks.

Hi, so I've been trying to put together a family tree. One side of my family is of German settler stock, mostly coming from Lower Silesia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, Oldenburg and Hannover.

I've found myself hitting something of a brick wall in tracing my ancestors back any further than those who settled in Australia and were recorded in our archives. Would there be any good online archives to access Lutheran Church records from these regions? Especially territories like much of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Posen and Lower Silesia which are largely in modern day Poland.

Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks.

Hi so I know this is a pretty niche question, but I've been looking into my German ancestry. I'm from South Australia, and during the mid to late 19th Century many Old Lutherans from what we now call Germany settled in South Australia, especially in the Barossa Valley.

However, they all came from different places. Quite different places, especially linguistically. How would a German from say Lower Silesia, speaking a dialect of Eastern Mitteldeutsch, be able to understand a settler from Oldenburg speaking a dialect of Plattdeutsch?

Perhaps inter-regional communication was done through common vocabulary in their Lutheran bibles? As religion and a broad cultural similarity were the two things that united these disparate German settlers.

If anyone has any clues they would be much appreciated.

Thanks.