Finding family in Dresden

[marialina]

Hi,
Im looking for anyine that maybe related or knew a Kurt Fritz Mai, born Dresden 1924 Fritz Mai or a Lina Berger parents.
Kurt was a P.O.W in Italy 1946/47

Data protection in Germany predates the GPDR by years - when I was young there was an uproar because of a census.

Stems from the time our ancestors had to prove their ancestry to the regime four generations back.

I dont know...just told the other day he had passed away and that was all the info I had.
I have been sending E.Mails to ask Cemetery records and maybe ask for a Death certificate, we will eait and see. 👍

Have you done a DNA test though? It may find some cousins which can give you a lead. Some of my matches are 2nd cousins.

I dont know that! No-one will tell me. 😒

Prokupatuscrakedatus...
I have trued the usuak Ancestry, familysearch.irg Mormon site....filled in Registry forms, Stasi forms...Army records.....Dresden radio.......Dresden site on F.B....Internatiinal German Geneology site.
Waiting for a reply from Lars to let me know who he contacted...phew....
Most of these wont tell me anything, the rest have no results.

Where did you do your DNA?

Ancestry DNA

Also, if you get your mother to do it too, Ancestry will show which of your DNA matches you share...making it easier to work out which are your mum's side and which are your dad's.

Thank you...i will try Entnazif....what is it?.i have asked army records 6 months ago. Still waiting.
Im waiting for death certificate (if they will let me) and burial records.

Bramblyhedge..
My Sister-in-law did Ancestry DNA...all it showed she was from eastern Europe.

It should also produce matches, on the quest for my maternal grandfather I got my mother to do ancestry dna. She had six second cousin matches, of which three had really good family trees and a fourth was very willing to help with practical research, photographs etc. Second cousins showed us which generation to look at, we narrowed it down fairly quickly. When ancestry introduced thrulines it was extremely useful for refuting or supporting various hypotheses by showing how my mother was likely related to her matches via various common ancestors. Ancestry also put her in an additional community of Swiss and German US settlers which showed us where to focus the search regionally. It really helped to keep it all on track!