Records of Christa Merten on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Christa Merten in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Christa Merten and the Merten Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Merten Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Merten family tree.

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Miscellaneous Merten Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Christa Merten. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Christa Merten

Christa Merten

Christa Merten (née Basche; 14 October 1944, Dobbertin, Germany – 1 July 1986, Marbella, Spain), was a West German athlete and Olympian who competed for West Germany in the 1960s and 70s in the 800, 1500 and 3000 meter runs and in cross country running. She committed suicide in 1986.

On July 31, 1971, she set a world record in Lübeck with Ellen Tittel, Sylvia Schenk, and Hildegard Falck in the 800 meter relay. Merten started the 1500 meter run at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 800 meter run at the 1971 European Athletics Championships, but failed to reach the finals. She won the silver medal with the relay in the 2000m medley relay with Elfgard Schittenhelm, and with a time of 5:01.1 minutes at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships. At the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships, she earned fourth place at the 800 meter dash.

A German Championship of the Federal Republic, she won with the 3 × 800 m season of VfL Wolfsburg, 1970 in the short cross-country race, 1965, 1966 and 1970 with the cross-country team and 1973 in the 3000 meter run (9:23.0 min). From 1970 to 1973, she broke four German records of the Federal Republic in the 1000, 1500 and 3000 meter run.

Merten was 1.68 m tall and weighed 54 kg in her time as an active athlete. Until 1964, she belonged to the sports club SC Charlottenburg, then VfL Wolfsburg, then ASV Köln and finally from 1971 onward, Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Source: Christa Merten, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Merten

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