{"id":666,"date":"2021-10-22T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.creativethemes.com\/blocksy\/justice\/?p=666"},"modified":"2024-01-05T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:13:35","slug":"enns-research-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/enns-research-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Enns Name Research Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol>\n<li> Understand the Geography of where you are researching. Open up Google Maps and find out the relationship of todays locations to the locations of where your family lived. Many times the place names and spellings have changed. Search for older maps from the region to find out how names were spelled in the past. Most Enns names are associated with:  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search multiple Spellings\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Most common:<\/strong> Enns, Entz, Ens, and Ense <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Less Common: Endsee, Endsea, Enz, Enss, Ensz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rare: Ennes, Ennis, Anse, Enten<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search in German &amp; Dutch. There is a wealth of resources only available in other languages. You can use your browser to automatically translate pages. Also many wikipedia articles only exist in German or Dutch regarding more specific locations, people or moments in history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search other countries. There may be a tie. Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland have the oldest records. Prussia (now Poland\/Germany), Ukraine and Russia have many records. Canada, USA, Brazil and Paraguay have more recent records. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find the website for local city archives. Most archives don&#8217;t seem to be indexed by search engines. Often times there are different archives on the federal, state and municipal levels. Remember, the borders we know today were very different hundreds of years ago. What is Ukraine, Germany and Poland today may not have been back then.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask around your family, uncles, aunts and grandparents for any possible information. Most families have someone interested in keeping the history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Register on genology sites like FamilySearch and Ancestry, but don&#8217;t put too much weight on other people&#8217;s family trees that don&#8217;t have source documents attached.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look on mennonite history research websites such as GAMEO, GMOL, and Horst Penners research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\" \/><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"tnc_tax_1075":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",889,667,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609-300x225.jpeg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609-768x576.jpeg",768,576,true],"large":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",889,667,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",889,667,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",889,667,false],"tainacan-small":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",40,30,false],"tainacan-medium":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",275,206,false],"tainacan-medium-full":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",205,154,false],"tainacan-large-full":["http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-august-de-richelieu-4427609.jpeg",480,360,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Understand the Geography of where you are researching. Open up Google Maps and find out the relationship of todays locations to the locations of where your family lived. Many times the place names and spellings have changed. Search for older maps from the region to find out how names were spelled in the past. Most Enns names are associated with: Search multiple Spellings Most common: Enns, Entz, Ens, and Ense Less Common: Endsee, Endsea, Enz, Enss, Ensz Rare: Ennes, Ennis, Anse, Enten Search in German &amp; Dutch. There is a wealth of resources only available in other languages. You can&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/category\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Marcelo","url":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/author\/johonbravo\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"tnc_tax_1075","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/enns.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_tax_1075?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}