Bavarian records archive
I would like to know the exact agency / office where I need to go to find ancestor's information. I'm hoping to find documents regarding their emigration permission or anything. I don't know if they were married when they left Bavaria, but I do know they had a child before they left. The surname of the husband is anglicized and I don't know if the change was a direct translation, something that sounded the same, or something he chose in line when he arrived in the U.S. They immigrated in the 1832-1834 time frame. Anyway - they are end-of-line individuals and I would like to get further with that line. I assume the office I need is in Munich. I'll be in Germany for another month and would like to try to find this information.
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Hi @SusanLorenzen, there is a lot to mention here.
First of all, there are church records and civil records. Typically a civil record is birth, marriage, death and a church record would apply to religious ceremonies, baptism (christening), marriage, burial.
Usually churches have an archive, a room, where they store records. These are not central, but there may be a church that has the records for the region. I think civil records from this time would be kept at a regional office. I'm not an expert at this so anyone who knows better, please feel free to correct me. My main point is that the records are not centralized. Even if they were, there are so many records and they are organized by region, it would be impossible to look through them all.
The second point is that Bavaria at this time is not modern Bavaria. There were kingdoms of Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, etc. and the respective kings sometimes owned disconnected property. There could even be a patchwork of properties from the various kingdoms. Many immigrants came to the US from the Pfalz region. Much of it belonged to Bavaria at the time. But now it is part of the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate.
There is an effort to transcribe the church records and make them available online. There is a pay site https://www.archion.de/en/. Even if you don't find the person you are looking for, you might find an area where the family name is frequent. Bavaria was huge and if you want to look at old records, you need to narrow down the area. Records are also spotty. There may be water damage or fire.
Best wishes.
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1834 is pre-civil registration, so you would have to look for church records, which may or may not include a notation that the people emigrated. If the family was Catholic, which is highly likely in Bavaria, you will not find those records at Archion, which is Protestant records for the most part. However, there is a similar project for Catholic records, which is available for free at https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/landkarte/?bbox=-901345%2C5022831%2C3853649%2C7082349. If you know the name of the parish of origin, you can enter it at the top right, and Matricula will display the records available for that place - birth, marriage, death by timeframe.
You can also search online at the Bavarian State Archives, using the search term Auswanderer, which means emigrants. https://www.gda.bayern.de/findmitteldb/Suche/Archiv/
Here are a few other links that could be helpful in your search -
https://www.blf-online.de/projekt/auswandererkartei
https://www.germanroots.com/emigration.html
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Bavaria_(Bayern)_Emigration_and_Immigration
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