I am trying to locate a marriage record for my great grandparents and birth records on my aunts and
My Great grandparents are Franz Keil DOB March 11, 1981 (born in Svedler) and Mathilde Fabry DOB March 14, 1893 (unknown birthplace, unknown parents). I am also looking for full names of their children because it seems like they went by nicknames. The family was displaced post war 1945 and they resettled in Beueren, Alten Buseck Germany 1946.
They had 5 children: (To my knowledge they were all born in Svedler)
Gretel Keil
Helene (Elisabetha?) Keil
Emmy Keil DOB December 13, 1923
Hans Keil (It was said that he was pulled from school somewhere near Svedler to serve on the Russian front where he died)
Margarethe Anna Keil DOB July 26, 1931 (My Grandmother)
Any help is much appreciated! The most important birthdate and name is Helene (Lena) (Elisabetha?) Keil because I recently found out that her husband, Ernst Hess, is the biological father of my dad Hans Keil born in 1950, Beueren, Germany. As a result of the pregnancy, Ernst Hess and Helene became estranged from the family. They resettled in Mainz, Germany. I'm hoping the info will help me find more information on Ernst Hess. Thank you so much for any help that you are able to provide me!!
Stacey
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There are some Lutheran records for Švedlár on FamilySearch--the full records only go to 1898 but there is a marriage index from 1783-1943 (here's the link to the records). I found the index entry for their marriage: there is a Franz Keil and Mathild Faby who married there on 28 February 1914. The original image of the marriage should be in the state archive in Levoča, Slovakia. Unfortunately, since those years haven't been digitized, you would need to contact the archive or send a researcher there for copies of any records after 1898. But it looks like you definitely have the right place!
Franz's baptism record in Švedlár should be online on film no. 1791952, which is called Krsty (Baptisms) 1851-1896 Manželstvá (Marriages) 1830-1898 Úmrtia (Deaths) 1830-1889, if you want to find that as well.
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Thank you for the information on their marriage!! Do you have any suggestions on finding Mathild Fabry and Franz’s children’s birthdates? The Keil family from Franz on back has been relatively easy to locate. My challenge has been the Fabry side and the records that are after 1915. Do you think the state archive in Levoca, Slovakia would have information on their children or should I just keep trying to research within the Lutheran churches which was their practicing religion?
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You're welcome! Yes, I would expect to find their children's baptism records in the Lutheran records for Švedlár at the state archive in Levoča. Those records should give you their full names and birthdates. Have you searched for Mathild's baptism in Švedlár? She could have been from the same place as her husband, especially since they married there (marriages usually took place in the home parish of the bride). If you can't find her baptism in the online records (make sure you check page-by-page even if she's not in the indexed records--the indexes aren't complete), you could search neighboring parishes, or get their full 1914 marriage record from the archive in Levoča, which should list her hometown.
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