The record requests I put in last month with the Berlin Landesarchiv came through yesterday in the mail—copies of the official death records for Isaak and Betty Wohlgemuth. Hurrah!

The archive holds historical Berlin vital records that are at least 100 years old. More recent records such as the 1929 and 1942 deaths of our Wohlgemuth ancestors are held in the local registry offices in specific districts around the city. To locate these records, you need both the right district office (usually the residence location) and the date of the recorded event. 

A comprehensive database of Jewish surnames, marriages and marriage parties collected from historical civil marriage records for the city of Danzig is now live at Family History Machine.

It is a research tool for use of people working on an indexing project of the JewishGen Danzig Special Interest Group. Contact the adminstrator to request accsss. FHM hopes to make the data publicly available at a later date.