We are now on Day #16. I hope you were able to find some useful information yesterday with the land records at the Bureau of Land Management’s General Land Office Records. Today we will explore Catholic records from central Europe (Austria, Germany, Poland and Serbia) with Matricula (https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/). You will have to read some German to do this challenge but it won’t be that hard.

Click on the globe on the Matricula homepage to see the map of where the records are from. In the search box enter Damme, Germany. Zoom in until you see the pin for St. Viktor in the center of Damme. Click on the pin and go to the St. Viktor page to learn about the history of the church.

Knowing just a few German words can make the task easier. I have provided some translations in the questions. For more German words that are important to genealogy research visit the FamilySearch Wiki (https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/German_Genealogical_Word_List).