Die MAUS - Family History and Genealogical Society of Bremen

What is "Die Maus"?

Inside the building of the Staatsarchiv Bremen are some rooms of Die Maus located where members can do their research. In the library of Die Maus fotocopies of the curch books of all churches in Bremen are available from the beginning to 1811, Civil-registers are available from 1811 - 1875. Also a lot of books, magazines and others sources are available in the own library. In addition the researchers can use the big library of the Staatsarchiv Bremen.

Every Thursday from 4 pm to 8 pm the rooms are open for people looking for help. For other dates please contact Die Maus directly.

Written questions from all over the world are being answered by members of the society. They would like also to help you.

During the winter period there are held a lot of interesting specialist talks. Each sommer-period it is planned to make a study tour and visit interesting historical points.

Members will receive 2 times a year an own Maus society newspaper and 4 times a year the magazine:Niederdeutsche Familienkunde.

Where does the name "Die Maus" come from?

They want to use a short and striking name for the new society and named it Die Maus. Two reasons are named for this:

• First: they met each other the first time in the very nice local Bremen restaurant Die Mausefalle inside of the restaurant under the Bremen town-hall.
• Second: Real mice in the nature have to be very busy to find something to eat. The same is with family researchers: they have to be as busy as real mice in the nature when they want to find ancestors and all about their family history.