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 Generally, the earliest church records are in western Germany. The farther east you go, the later the church records begin.
-German church records are usually written in Latin or German. Records in German were&nbsp;written in Gothic script&nbsp;as late as the 1930s.
-Note the following points about German church records:
-*Large cities have many churches, each serving part of the city. Rural churches often serve several villages and hamlets. Parish boundaries often changed, which affected where church records were kept.
-*Military churches in garrison towns and cities often kept their own records separate from other parishes.
-*In some parts of Germany, the death registers began later than the baptism and marriage registers, especially in Catholic records.
-*The registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths from different geographic areas vary considerably in the amount of information they provide. Each jurisdiction had its own record-keeping rules, and each recorder had his own style.
-*In some areas, the records of people of other faiths were kept by the predominant church. The principal churches in Germany were the Catholic and Evangelical-Lutheran churches. For example, Jewish or Mennonite births were occasionally recorded at Catholic parishes, especially in areas where the church was used as the civil registration office.
-*Parishes occasionally indexed their records. Indexes are usually found at the beginning or end of the record. Moreover, archives sometimes compile indexes of church records. For example, the Lübeck Stadtarchiv has an alphabetical card index of all names in church records of several parishes at their archive. This index is at the Family History Library on 152 reels of microfilm (FHL films 450,475-626). Occasionally private researchers create large indexes of church records. An example is the 764-microfilm Brenner collection described on page 38.
-For more information, see [[Germany Church History|Germany Church History]] and [[Germany History|Germany History]].
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 *[[Germany, Württemberg, Albstadt Miscellaneous City Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Germany, Wurttemberg, Albstadt Miscellaneous City Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
 *[[Switzerland Church Book Extracts (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
+German church records are usually written in Latin or German. Records in German were&nbsp;written in Gothic script&nbsp;as late as the 1930s.
+==Research Tips==
+*Large cities have many churches, each serving part of the city. Rural churches often serve several villages and hamlets. Parish boundaries often changed, which affected where church records were kept.
+*Military churches in garrison towns and cities often kept their own records separate from other parishes.
+*In some parts of Germany, the death registers began later than the baptism and marriage registers, especially in Catholic records.
+*The registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths from different geographic areas vary considerably in the amount of information they provide. Each jurisdiction had its own record-keeping rules, and each recorder had his own style.
+*In some areas, the records of people of other faiths were kept by the predominant church. The principal churches in Germany were the Catholic and Evangelical-Lutheran churches. For example, Jewish or Mennonite births were occasionally recorded at Catholic parishes, especially in areas where the church was used as the civil registration office.
+*Parishes occasionally indexed their records. Indexes are usually found at the beginning or end of the record. Moreover, archives sometimes compile indexes of church records. For example, the Lübeck Stadtarchiv has an alphabetical card index of all names in church records of several parishes at their archive. This index is at the Family History Library on 152 reels of microfilm (FHL films 450,475-626). Occasionally private researchers create large indexes of church records. An example is the 764-microfilm Brenner collection described on page 38.
+For more information, see [[Germany Church History|Germany Church History]] and [[Germany History|Germany History]].
 == References  ==