On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:56 AM, <devicesofwonder@...> wrote:

I want to find a birth record for an ancestor who was born in Memel (Klaipėda) on 1 September 1874.

I located an 1873 birth record for Klaipeda for a family member on ancestry.  It's worth searching there. - and good luck!

Joyaa ANTARES
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Researching ZAUSMER, ZOUSMER, CHOUSMER, CHAUSMER, MARCUS, DAVIDOFF, COHEN, KAHN in Polangen, Kretinga, Darbenai, Libau, Riga, Memel

Try searching the ALD of LitvakSIG. Hopefully you'll find what you're looking for.
Carol Hoffman
Tel Aviv

Thanks Joyaa,

I only found Klaipeda, Lithuania, Civil Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1874-1920

<https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61298/> and this is only marriages and deaths for Klaipeda.

 

Please will you send me the link to births (1874) for Klaipedia?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul ST GEORGE

Researching SCHIMMELFENNIG, SCHIMMELPFENNIG, Memel

Paul,

The earliest birth records for Memel that I know of were recorded beginning in December of 1874. However, Memel birth records include some that were recorded on a delayed basis, and there are, in fact, half a dozen such delayed records for 1874 births. None of them have the precise date you are looking for, but still worth checking in case your information is not accurate. The records can be searched on Ancestry.com as mentioned by Joyaa Antares, but I suggest you search in the LItvakSIG All Lithuania database (https://litvaksig.org/search-ALD) because the extractions there are superior - they are more accurate, and they include the mother's maiden name, the father's occupation, and sometimes further information such as the death of a parent. For delayed registrations, in particular, Ancestry sometimes conflates the year of recording with the year of birth. 

Russ Maurer
Klaipeda district coordinator, LitvakSIG

I do not know when, if ever, there was a census in East Prussia.

There are Memel directories for a few years (none particularly close to 1885). They can be accessed at http://www.bork-on-line.de/adressbuecher/start.htm.

Russ Maurer
Klaipeda district coordinator, LitvakSIG

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 08:47 PM, Russ Maurer wrote:

There are Memel directories for a few years (none particularly close to 1885). They can be accessed at http://www.bork-on-line.de/adressbuecher/start.htm.

Paul - in addition to Russ's tip, you could look here - https://www.online-ofb.de/famlist.php?ofb=memelland&b=A&lang=de (I don't read German and change the language to English).
Cheers, Joyaa Antares
Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Hi Paul,

Yes - that's the correct dataset.   I think that Russ's comment "However, Memel birth records include some that were recorded on a delayed basis, and there are, in fact, half a dozen such delayed records for 1874 births" would explain the inclusion of my "Anna MARKUS".  She and two of her siblings (they were born in 1867, 1870 and 1873) each had their births registered in 1890.

Joyaa ANTARES
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia