The many formerly independent kingdoms duchies and other small and large entities that made up the german empire led to variations and customs relating to marriage.
German marriage records 1800s.
Germany concentration camp records 1946 1958 in german free.
Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality.
Many of the records of my german mother in law s family.
To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions such as a county town or parish go to locating online databases.
Birth records marriage records death records census records family history etc.
Catholics began doing so in 1563 and by 1650 most reformed parishes began.
The year range represents most of the records.
Germany online genealogy records this chart shows links to countrywide collections.
Germany austria directories of military and marine officers 1500 1939 in german 213 429.
German genealogy marriage customs laws and records.
While many german records are not available online these german genealogy databases are a good place to begin researching your german family tree.
Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed.
A genealogist s translation guide to polish german latin and russian documents.
This collection contains 3 507 357 records.
A few records may be earlier or later.
Index to selected germany marriages.
Germany austria directories of military and marine officers 1600 1918 in german 5 904 223.
Germany military killed in action 1939 1948 in german 2 488 380.
In addition in the 18th and 19th centuries marriage laws were passed to limit population growth in the lower classes.
Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed.
The first surviving protestant records date back to 1524 but lutheran churches in general began requiring baptism marriage and burial records in 1540.
I decided to test drive it using a marriage record from the bischöfliches zentralarchiv regensburg that.
A few records may be earlier or later.
German ancestry family history and genealogy.
In my last post i wrote about my excitement over my brand new copy of hoffman and shea s recently published german genealogical translation guide in their words.
Includes some german baptism marriage and death indexes and other items.
Often called parish registers or church books these include records of births baptism marriages deaths and burials recorded by german churches.
Available resources include german birth death and marriage records as well as census immigration military and other genealogy records.
Familysearch also has some digitized microfilm of german genealogy records.
Index to selected germany deaths and burials.
To view some of the images you must be at an lds family history center or a familysearch affiliated library.
