Family Records
Register of the Senior Line
A continuous record of births, marriages, deaths, successions, probate, and branch connections kept by the House of Faust and its estate office from 1712 to the present day.
Scope of the record
One register, kept by many hands
The register begins in 1712 with a marriage settlement entered by a parish clerk and ends with structured extracts drawn from the family office database. Between those two folios lie copperplate volumes, ruled ledgers from the estate office, typewritten forms, and carbon duplicates — each generation recording itself in the materials of its own century.
Every member of the house appears here in the same form: an entry of birth, a marriage where one was made, a note of connection where a branch joined the senior line, and a closing entry at death. No member is given more space than the record requires.
Note of the Archive
These folios are family archive copies — extracts, transcriptions, and reconstructions prepared from the surviving register. Where originals were lost, damaged, or written in German, the entry stands upon the best evidence presently held. They are not government-issued documents.
The Six Recording Eras
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