There are some documents collected in Germany; Ortssippenbucher or "One-place studies." Books with encoded information documenting families, marriages n particular, birthdates, marrige dates, death dates, children, etc.
Each village in certain areas compiled them. And in post world war years, many geneaoligists updated them. Likely they are the source for the Feibelman and Schmeiheim family trees on Ancestry.
It's not easy to find them, I think Family Search has digitized some of them. The entry above is from Schmeiheim Ortssipenbucher; the marriage between Isaak Baumann and Gutel Baum in 1839. Isaak Baumann a merchant; Gutel from a nearby town Nonnenweier. The numbers in <> brackets refer to another marriage. So you can find information about the marriages of some of the 7 children (kdr) . The youngest son Maier emigrated to America 1883 and called himself Morris Baumann (my great grandfather).
Wow, cool, tons of detail, if incomplete.
But these documents come with a creepy price. They were started on the request of the Nazis in the 1930s. The reason? To document each family's aryan ancestry. How do you think they knew who the Jews were in these small towns and villages? Nazi school teachers worked on them for class projects. They were stopped during the war then picked up by geneaologists.
A new contact, Pete F, who knows about these sent me some images from the Schmeiheim Ortisspenbucher. Learn more about them here. He runs the Kehila Link form Schmeiheim on Jewish Gen; designed for more comprehensive information about a particular place or community. He asked me if I would write about Morris Baumann to include on the website. Hey, I'm flattered!
Picture of on Ortssipenbuch, maybe and the image of theentry from the Schmeiheim one regarding my great great grandfather's family.
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