Records of Theodor Koch on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Theodor Koch in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. 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 Theodor Koch and the Koch Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Koch 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 Koch family tree.

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Koch Family Tree Databases

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Koch Forums

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Miscellaneous Koch Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Theodor Koch. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Theodor Koch

Theodor Koch (13 May 1905 – 21 October 1976) was a German engineer and weapons manufacturer, born in Zuffenhausen, Germany. As a young man, Koch apprenticed as a precision mechanic. After completing his apprenticeship he attended an engineering school in Esslingen. In 1924 he started work for Mauser in Oberndorf as an engineer and stayed with them until 1931. After the fall of Germany to the Allied Forces at the end of World War II the Mauser factory was dismantled. Koch, Edmund Heckler and Alex Seidel saved what they could and used it to found Heckler & Koch.
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