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 Church records are often called church books or churches books or parish registers. They contain records of '''births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials.''' In addition, church records can contain financial account books, (the record charges for toll bells, fees for masses for the dead, and so on), lists of confirmation, penance register communion lists, lists of members and the family register.
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+===History===
-*The practice of keeping parish registers evolved slowly. The first surviving German Protestant records are from 1524 at St. Sebald in Nürnberg. Lutheran churches in general began requiring baptism, marriage, and burial records around 1540; Catholics began in 1563. By 1650 most Reformed parishes began keeping records.
+*The practice of keeping parish registers evolved slowly.
+**Lutheran churches in general began requiring records around 1540.
+**Catholics began in 1563.
+**By 1650 most Reformed parishes began keeping records.
 *Many church records were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).
 *In addition, records for some parishes in the Pfalz and Rheinland were interrupted for several years when the French controlled those areas of Germany from 1792 to 1815 and introduced civil registration.
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 For more information, see [[Germany Church History|Germany Church History]] and [[Germany History|Germany History]].
 === Duplicate Church Records  ===
+*Concerns about war or fire destruction led authorities in some areas to require the pastor to create a copy of each year's baptism-, marriage-, and burial entries, mostly beginning in the late 18th century. These copies were either stored separately or sent to a central archive each year.
-Unfortunately, some of Germany's church records were destroyed in wars or when parsonages burned.&nbsp;Concerns about such destruction led authorities in some areas&nbsp; to require the pastor to create a copy of each year's baptism-, marriage-, and burial entries, mostly&nbsp;beginning in the late 18th century. These copies were either stored separately or sent to a central archive each year. <br>After the defeat of Napoleon in 1812 civil registration, which had been required under the French occupation, was discontinued in many parts of Germany. So local governments often found it helpful to have access to the birth-, marriage-, and death records kept by the clergy.. Soon local pastors were required to provide the town administration with a yearly copy of these records. These copies are called transcripts or duplicates [Kirchenbuchduplikate], and most are housed in central church archives or state archives. For example, the parish register duplicates of 62 parishes in the Sondershausen Evangelical diocese from 1813 to 1846 were all gathered into the diocese's central archive.
+*After the defeat of Napoleon in 1812, civil registration, which had been required under the French occupation, was discontinued. So local governments often found it helpful to have access to the birth-, marriage-, and death records kept by the clergy. Soon local pastors were required to provide the town administration with a yearly copy of these records. These copies are called transcripts or duplicates (Kirchenbuchduplikate). Most are housed in central church archives or state archives. For example, the parish register duplicates of 62 parishes in the Sondershausen Evangelical diocese from 1813 to 1846 were all gathered into the diocese's central archive.
 Use duplicates, where available, to supplement parish registers that are missing or illegible. Keep in mind that duplicates often differ slightly from the originals.<br>