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This collection, also known as the "Gatermann films", complements the records available at the Family History Library for this area. The latter are Jewish births, marriages, and deaths filmed at the Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig. | This collection, also known as the "Gatermann films", complements the records available at the Family History Library for this area. The latter are Jewish births, marriages, and deaths filmed at the Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig. | ||
During the Nazi Era, Jewish communities in Baden, Hohenzollern, and Wuerttemberg were required to give up their records to government authorities. This included births, marriages, deaths, circumcision records, cemetery registers, and membership lists. The collected material was microfilmed in 1943-1945 | During the Nazi Era, Jewish communities in Baden, Hohenzollern, and Wuerttemberg were required to give up their records to government authorities. This included births, marriages, deaths, circumcision records, cemetery registers, and membership lists. The collected material was microfilmed in 1943-1945 in different sets. The original records are now presumed lost, but the films survived the War and eventually ended up in different archives. The Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig has one set of films, and the Landesarchiv Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart has a different set. | ||
In March 2009 the Landesarchiv in Stuttgart made digital copies of its Jewish records set available on the Interrnet, along with an alphabetical list of Jewish records extant for localities in Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hohenzollern. This inventory also lists those records available at the Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig, but digital images are only available for the records kept in Stuttgart [Bestand J386]. Microfilm copies of the records kept in Leipzig are available through the LDS Family History center system. Thus, both sets of records are now | In March 2009 the Landesarchiv in Stuttgart made digital copies of its Jewish records set( [https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=5632 Bestand J386] in 126 rolls of microfilm) available on the Interrnet, along with an alphabetical list of Jewish records extant for localities in Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hohenzollern. This inventory also lists those records available at the Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig, but digital images are only available for the records kept in Stuttgart [Bestand J386]. Microfilm copies of the records kept in Leipzig are available through the LDS Family History center system. Thus, both sets of records are now accessible to the family historian. | ||
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The alphabetical listing by town name is available [https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=5632 here] . Descriptions that include links to digital images include the phrase "Archivalieneinheit einsehen" in red. Click on that phrase to bring up thumbnails of the first ten images and a navigation bar. | |||
*"Blättern1 bis 10" with forward and back arrows allows you to page forward and back within this set. | |||
*" Seite [Bitte wählen]" brings up the list of available pages, so you can click on a page number. The system then loads that page pus the next nine images | |||
"Bildanzeige modifizieren" means " Modify the way the image is displayed". | |||
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