About our help to find your ancestors
Finding your ancestors or
living relatives in Germany is nearly impossible if you don`t have access to
the primary sources like church and civil registers, tax rolls, military
documents, passenger lists, etc. These sources are often well preserved in
state or church archives here in Germany. Therefore, if you know the name of an
ancestor and the place where he came from it will be possible in many cases to
trace back the roots of your family to the 17th century.
I would like to provide for you professional
research assistance to reach this goal. After I had worked as a lecturer and
research assistant at the history department of the University of Bremen I
started my own business as a full-time genealogist and historical researcher on
15th January 1999. Although my research service business is only 6 years old
now, I have many years of experience in family history research, biographical
research, transcription (deciphering old handwriting) and archive
investigations. I am a member of the "Gesellschaft für Familienforschung
`Die Maus` e.V., Bremen" which has one of the best genealogical libraries
in Germany. Since August 2004 Ines Weißenberg, a qualified historian, has
joined me to work at "Historical Research Services". Her experience
in doing archive research and in doing biographical research at the university
means that we can provide even more and better research assistance now. Last
but not least my wife, Regina Koppe, is an important member of our team. She
does office work, professional transcriptions and developped a good, often
crucial sense of discussing and solving complicated genealogical questions during
the past two years. And she is the one who is responsible for our ambitious 1852 census project for the
Kingdom of Hanover.
Depending on your research
aims we will search for relevant sources and select the ones which promise the
best research results. We will work out a sketched research plan with estimated
costs - for free - in order to give you an idea of what can be done in your
special case. The main part of our job is to go to church or state archives
where thousands of parish registers and other worthful sources for the family
researcher are kept. We can provide access to sources which have never
been filmed - and this is still true for the great majority of genealogical
relevant sources in Northern Germany.
Details
about our researching team
If you need help in
transcription and translating historical documents, or if you want me to write
a whole family or village history, just ask me for an offer.
For detailed information about my research assistance, just click here and return to
the homepage of
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
SERVICES
Jens
Müller-Koppe
hrs@hist.de
Oslebshauser
Heerstr. 147
D - 28329
Bremen
phone:
+49-421-577 80 20