General Help and Information from my free FamilySearch Consultation
So my consult was specifically for the Haub family in Frankfurt am Main. But I learned so much more. Some of these suggestions I've seen other places on the board, but I'm including the entire post I shared with my genealogy network just in case it's helpful to someone here...
Not only did he help me with my specific questions but I learned soooooooo much. 20 minutes of amazing help! You can sign up for a session using this link: https://go.oncehub.com/ResearchStrategySession
Germany had a guild system like Britian/London, so there isn't a lot of overlap with folks moving from the country to the city until after the industrial revolution. So that can be a great indicator that you're looking at the right/wrong family. One of the only way country folks got permission to move to the city is if they married the daughter of a successful tradesman...and successful tradesmen didn't want their daughters "marrying down" so it didn't happen much.
German Empire gazetteer so you can dig down and make sure that your place is actually *your place* https://www.meyersgaz.org/
For the most part, the algorithm at FamilySearch uses the most current place-region-name to search. So even though Frankfurt am Main was an independent City until the early 1800's to the late 1860's, you will get the best hits by putting in the location name of the jurisdiction as it's found now.
Also, it's best, for the search algorithm to use only one (the best guess/most predominant) spelling of the last name in the "Surname" box on FamilySearch and then add the additional full name with alternate surname spellings here: person>details>other information>click "add information">alternate name
For those of you with Swiss Ancestors: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/famn/
Oh, and I forgot this gem. www.familysearch.org/research/places
shows a timeline of the jurisdictional changes for cities. For example, we tried Prēsov, Slovakia (which is where Tom's maternal grandfather's family is from). And, tada! Since the city doesn't move, you've got a stable location which changes countries as history happens. This is a newer feature so it's not amazing, amazing yet...but it's still pretty darned amazing! Oh, and you also get the names in the language of the country in which the location was boundaried...so the name shows both the Slovak name *and* the Hungarian name. Yeehaw!
So, for example, this is what I ended up with (even though my consult was for the Haub family in Frankfurt am Main, Germany)...
Basic Information
Prešov (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpreʂɔw] (listen), Hungarian: Eperjes, Rusyn and Ukrainian: Пряшів) is a city in Eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of administrative Prešov Region (Slovak: Prešovský kraj) and Šariš, as well as the historic Sáros County of the Kingdom of Hungary. With a population of approximately 90,000 for the city, and in total about 110,000 with the metropolitan area, it is the third-largest city in Slovakia. It belongs to the Košice-Prešov agglomeration and is the natural cultural, economic, transport and administrative center of the Šariš region. It lends its name to the Eperjes-Tokaj Hill-Chain which was considered as the geographic entity on the first map of Hungary from 1528. There are many tourist attractions in Prešov such as castles (e.g. Šariš Castle), pools and the old town.
Latitude, Longitude
48.9979, 21.2399
Additional Type Information
The name Eperjes, Sáros, Hungary was used for this place before WWII.
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Thank you for sharing this information, @Sharon Lynn Ringler.
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