Help understand discrepancies in marriage location in Prussia

BonnieJLarson

I found 3 records for the marriage of my ancestors Carl August Nagor and Dorothea Kaufmann. Each one has the same names, and marriage date, but the location of marriage and name of the church are totally different. I suspect that Carl was in the military and that may have something to do with this. Can you help me understand the discrepancies and what is the most correct information to enter into FamilySearch?

Robert Seal_1

Hello @BonnieJLarson,

Have you looked at each of the original records?

I am only able to view the first record so it is not possible to answer your question without viewing all three original records.

Based on the three indexed abstracts you provided, it appears that abstracts 1 and 2 might be duplicates of one another given that they both appear on the same pages: 558-559. The differences between these two might be because different indexers indexed these records which appear on different microfilms at different times. The third record might be a record of the same marriage made for another military unit.

You would need to verify this by comparing and contrasting the three original records.

JohnsonGreg

I think this is the same book having been filmed thrice with differences in the indexing. One film, 102461807, is visible online.

In familysearch's description of film 102461807 it says:

Parish register of baptisms, marriages, deaths and confirmations for the 17th regiment of the Old Prussian Army. The regiment was headed finally by Karl Peter von Treskow, and garrisoned primarily in Köslin, Rügenwalde, and Danzig.

So this parish book apparently followed the regiment as it moved and the location will vary with time. It is necessary to look up the actual image and perhaps surrounding pages to figure out where the regiment was garrisoned at the time. Treskow is a place but it is not where the regiment is located. It is where the head of the regiment was from.

In this case the top of the page says it is the marriages at Gedanenses. Gedanenses is the latin form for the city of Danzig which is now called Gdansk in Poland. Here is the image.

BonnieJLarson

Thank you for sharing your insights.