Dear ted49,
I have consulted both the printed version and the online version of
the official Hamburg telephone directory listings. "Wigger" is not a
common name in Hamburg. Currently, only 45 persons of that name are
listed in the Greater Hamburg area, so chances are very good that at
least a number of them are descendants of Johann Peter Adolf Wigger
and/or Friedrich Bernhard Paul Wigger, or that they belong to that
Wigger family.
However, because of the very strict privacy rules of Google Answers,
Researchers are not allowed to publish any contact information for
living private individuals in their answers, even if that information
is listed in public sources like telephone directories.
But I can do something I am allowed to, and it will be as useful as a
listing of the phone numbers or addresses: There is an online English
language version of the official nationwide German telephone
directory. I will provide you step-by-step instruction, so you will
get the complete list of all Wiggers currently listed in the Hamburg
area.
1. Please click this link. It will take you to the English version of
the Deutsche Telekom online telephone directory:
http://www.telefonbuch.de/NSAPI/Anfrage?AKTION=zeSuchseiteTelefonbuch&SPRACHE=EN
2. You will see the form for a basic search. Please enter "Wigger" in
the "name*/keyword/category" field. And in the "place" field, enter
"Hamburg". Then, click the red button labelled "Start!"
3. In the next screen, you can either tick all choice fields on the
left side of the list with Greater Hamburg local code districts and
then click the "start search" below; or you can simply click "search
in all places".
4. You will now see the first of three pages listing all 45 Wiggers
who are resident in Hamburg today and listed in the current telephone
directory.
When placing a phone call to Germany, please remember the following:
The phone numbers are listed with their area codes, mostly (040). When
calling from the USA, you must first use the local code for Germany,
01149 (usually shortened to +49 in listings). Then the area code
follows, less the first 0. So for calling the phone number (040)123456
from the USA, you should dial 01149-40-123456.
The same goes for cellphone numbers that do not have an area code.
Leave away the zero at the beginning and add 01149 instead.
You might also want to get contact information for an institution that
could help you with finding traces of Johann Peter Adolf Wigger,
Friedrich Bernhard Paul Wigger, or their descendants. There are no
census records as they are known in the United States, but there is an
office that might still have records of the Wigger family: The
Standesamtliche Generalregister (Central Archive of Civil Register
Records). Here is their address:
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
Standesamtliches Generalregister
-Zentralarchiv-
Eiffestrasse 74
20537 Hamburg
GERMANY
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Phone: +49(0)40 / 42839-2688
Fax: +49(0)40 / 42839-4461
E-Mail: generalregister-hamburg@t-online.de
Please note: The services of the Generalregister are subject to fees.
So you will have to first ask for possible ways of payment.
Also, you might find this address helpful: It's the Hamburg
Genealogical Society. They could provide you additional support and
help for your research in Hamburg, and the local genealogy archive
they maintain might contain valuable information:
Genealogische Gesellschaft Hamburg e.V.
Postfach 30 20 42
20307 Hamburg
GERMANY
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Phone: +49(0)40 / 20970960
E-Mail: GENEALOG-HAM@GMX.DE
Website: http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/GGHH/index_e.html
I hope that this information will help you establish contact to
descendants of the Wigger brothers. Due to the fact that virtually no
genealogical or civil register data in Germany is available online,
let alone for free, it is the best I can offer (I am German myself,
and I find the conditions for genealogical research in my country
extremely sad, to say the least). Nevertheless, I am confident that
what I found will prove useful for you.
Very best regards,
Scriptor |
