Methodology - making the jump from Germany back to Silesia 1600s
I'm researching a family in Friedelshausen, Saxe-Meinigen. In the 1729 death entry it noted that the 84-year-old deceased person was born in Silesia.
How would one go about to try and figure out where in Silesia he was born (if no other clues were found in entries for other family members in the church records) to possibly extend the line (if Silesian records are available)?
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Two possibilities come to mind - were any of this person's children also born in Silesia? If so that would mean he was married in Silesia as well. So Look for a marriage record in (or near) the place where he died to rule out this possibility. Look for the children's birth records as well.
Then look at neighbors to see if any of them also came from Silesia - cluster research. Maybe he came to Saxe-Meiningen in a group rather than alone. Look at the history of what was going on at that time. Doing the math, if he was 84 in 1729, then he would have been born about 1645, i.e. right at the tail end of the 30 Years' War. Lots of people were displaced at the time, lots of records destroyed, so you may not find your answer.
Here's a link to the FamilySearch Wiki article on Silesia and available records - https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Silesia_(Schlesien),_Prussia,_German_Empire_Genealogy
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@sylviaelchinger1 Thanks for your reply.
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