ARYAN DESCENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23227, 22 December 1938, Page 16

ARYAN DESCENT

GERMANS SEEK PROOFS HUNT FOR ANCESTORS HUNDREDS OF INQUIRIES fFROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT"| LONDON, Nov. 28 Anxious to prove the. "purity" of their blood, hundreds of Germans who believe the.y are descended from English people are hunting for their ancestors. They are mostly Government officials and professional men for whom conformity with the Nazi racial decrees is especially important. Mrs. K. Blomfield, secretary of the Society oof Genealogists in London, said this week: "Wo dealt with many hundreds of inquiries for family trees from Germane when the racial decrees were first promulgated. Now they apply to Austria, and it is from,there inquiries have been coming recently. The inquirers often have to establish their pedigree back to 1790. "With the help of our records, if the people are able to indicate the English parish where their parents or grandparents came from, we are nhle to tell them where baptismal certificates may be obtained. "The search fee is £1 a day, but w'e often do it for much less, as the people cannot send more than ten shillings at a time out of the countrv "