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Is Bavaria in Germany relative to 'The South' in the US?

Kirstner...Bavaria, Germany?

  • My ggf immigrated from Bavaria to America. He was born in 1824 and was in the 1860 census in Blair County, PA. How do I find any family connection in Bavaria? His name was George Kirstner and he arrived with his wife Barbara.

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    I can give you a short cut. There is a little town in Michigan called Frankenmuth. It's built on its Bavarian heritage and their local library is full of experts on everything Bavarian. They have access to records that most libraries don't carry...because Bavarian genealogy is very specialized. Here's more on the town: http://www.frankenmuth.org/ Here's the library's site: http://www.frankenmuthcity.com/library/ If nothing else, contact them to see if they can have a volunteer work with you to find the records you need.

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You may find records on their arrival in the US at castlegarden.org that would give a city, but that's almost a bit early. It would still seem to me that Philly would be an immigrant port but I don't know yet of an immigrant intake center there for that time. However - there should be immigration records. It's also possible that one or more of their children lived to die in the period when deaths were certified and certificates may give the city of parents' births. You may need to watch for either/or baptismal or given name. I'm pretty sure that when you learn where, that the records you'll want to research will be church records.

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