Looking for my GrandMother Matilda Schmidt

[sboucher5]

Hello !

My name is Stéphanie Boucher, I'm french and I'm looking for my romanian grandmother.
I have looked in many archives both in Romania and France but I have very little information.

What I'm sure of :
Name: Matilda or (any variation) Schmidt, born 22/01/1910 in Talmaciu
Her mother was named Sara Schmidt and was deceased in 1939 (that's what is mentionned in the marriage certificate I found in Paris) no mention of a father
She was German speaking and left Romania around 1937-38 for Paris where she has followed a diplomatic familly as a nanny.

What I'm not sure of coming from my memory:
her mother died around of after WWI.
she had an older brother that might have died in a car accident before she left Romania.

I did not find her in the birth register of Talmaciu, but is there other register ?
So I do not know a lot, and looking for any type of support yo may proide.

Thank you,

Stéphanie

[Andrei Jipa]

Hello Stéphanie and welcome to the Genealogica.ro forum!

It was great to read about your family research and wish you all the best in your endeavour!

I had a quick look at the index of the birth registers from Tălmaciu and indeed the birth is missing, which is rather unusual. Where does the information re. the birth date and place come from? Could you share a bit more about it? Would it be possible that there is a typo somewhere?

In case you haven't come across these document yet, the National Archives in Bucharest have an inventory entry that might regard your grandmother:
https://descopera.arhivelenationale.ro/cota/?cid=845888
From the administration and supervision of enemy property.

It might be worth investigating it further.

[sboucher5]

Thanks a lot ! is there any way of knowing what contains this file? and what is the context?

In the meantime, I have collected few other info from my mother. Again this is pending memory recollection.

Her father, could have been a teacher at primary school who died around (1912-1916)
She couldhave had 2 brothers (one of them named Adolf ?)
The name of the family she was employed and with whom she left for France was Schrimpf: potentially Vice-consul de France (info I did not managed to confirme yet)

Concerning her date of birth I have it from the marriage certificate issued in Paris in 1939, I suppose that at that time they had to believe what she said.

Thank again for your help!

[Andrei Jipa]

Thanks a lot ! is there any way of knowing what contains this file? and what is the context?

You can find more info on the collection here:
https://descopera.arhivelenationale.ro/cota/?cid=136898

And the content of the files:
https://descopera.arhivelenationale.ro/cota/?cid=548517
with Google Translate, a relevant part:
The individual files of individuals of German, Hungarian citizenship and persons of any other citizenship residing on German or Hungarian territory or in the territories occupied by them and of citizens who have taken refuge in Germany or Hungary include minutes, inventories, records, land registry extracts, nationality certificates, civil status documents, reports, addresses relating to the inventory and evaluation of the urban and rural assets of the above-mentioned persons, the appointment of administrators for these assets, their transfer to the State's patrimony, the sale or custody of the assets taken over by CASBI.