Advice on tracing Prussian ancestors - Stettin area

I'd be very grateful if anyone could offer any advice please. I have looked at many sites but I am unfamiliar with the area and really don't know where to look. The information I have is the baptism of RICHARD EMIL FRANZ HAASE on 24th June 1855 in St. Gertruds, Stettin Stadt, Pommern. His father was CARL AUGUST HAASE and his mother REGINE WILHELMINE BRATZ.

I found this information on Family Search but can't find any siblings or the marriage of his parents. I've tried to find some information on St. Gertruds thinking that may help with the area but can't find anything.

I know that the family later moved to Paderborn and then onto Dussledorf.

I don't speak Polish and running everything through GoogleTranslate is very time consuming when I don't know what I'm doing :-)

I appreciate that there are a number of Polish sites but it's difficult to know where to start.

I'd really appreciate any help.

Many thanks
Lin

What information are you looking for ? I doubt there's much of German archives left in Poland.

That's not correct. Most of the civil registration records as well as quite a few protestant church books are still in Poland.

@Linda

Some old records from Stettin can be found at

szczecin.ap.gov.pl
fs.webosi.net/detail/pommern/all# (enter Stettin as search phrase)

The last link leads to the Mormon database. If you want to access the scans, you'll need to sign up.

I don't think the siblings or the date of the parents' marriage were put in birth records. At least not the ones I have seen.

Try contacting the state archives in Szczecin.

That's not how it works. You'll first need to find the birth record of your ancestor, which also names his or her parents. Once you have the date of birth, you go backward in time to look for the marriage of the parents. If your ancestor was the oldest child, the marriage is usually found the same year or a year earlier. If the ancestor is not the first child, you'll have to dig backwards through the records until you find the parent's wedding.

Thank you all for your replies. Sorry I haven't managed to answer any earlier. I was hoping to find records of siblings in order to get an idea of when his parents married - was Richard the eldest or youngest or somewhere in between? If he was the oldest then his parents are likely to have been married a year or two before i.e. 1854ish. If he was the youngest they could have been married any time up to 20 years before.

German marriage records often give the parents names as well, which is really useful. Even if they don't, assuming that people married around the age of 25 it would give an indication of where to look for their births. As it is, I can't find anything for his parents.

Family Search only has limited records for Stettin transcribed and, needless to say, not the ones I'm looking for! They do have other films and printouts and I went to Society of Genealogists yesterday in the hope of finding something as they now have the collection of the Family Search films, but not the ones I want!!!!

I have tried the Szczecin site, thank you, but to no avail.

I live in hopes and any other suggestions would be most welcome.

There are plenty of church books from Stettin on this site; St. Gertrud amongst them: archion.de/en/search

To view the scans, you'll have to sign up and pay.

Thank you, I'll try that

Marriages St. Gertrud #53/1854, p.45

Carl August Haase, 30 years old, both parents deceased
Regine Wilhelmine Bratz, 22 years old, never been married
Date of marriage: June 29th, 1854

Father of the bride: Johann David Bratz, worker, deceased, from ??? (can't read that)

Sorry, I can't post a screenshot of the page here for legal reasons.

Hi Lin; FamilySearch.org has computer printouts of the Stettin church books. For example, see this one for St Gertrud:
familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSM4-2SJF-2

If you search their Catalog, you will find other church books for other churches in Stettin and many other cities now in Poland. These images are not yet indexed by FamilySearch so you can't use their search feature, but you can look through them yourself; they are pretty easy to figure out. My ancestors came from the area now divided by the German-Polish border. You can contact me at swstieg@att.net, or through FamilySearch.org if you want to.