Re: illegitimacy in 1800's Germany
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In reply to:
illegitimacy in 1800's Germany
Marilyln Stanley 1/05/14
Marilyn;There was a period in German history where the poor where not allowed to marry.They would live together as husband and wife and often the children would have the father's name but the state did not deem them eligible to wed because of their economic status.
That is another thing that makes German genealogy so difficult.Sometimes the children would have the mother's name and sometimes the father's.