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Finding Aids for German Records (view source)
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====FamilySearch Catalog==== | ====FamilySearch Catalog==== | ||
*One of your eventual questions is whether the church records you seek have been microfilmed or digitized by FamilySearch. You can just by-pass all this geography and jump to checking to see if FamilySearch has the records. If the town is a parish, it might show up immediately in that system. Occasionally a town will show up listed under the parish that has it records. Go to [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search '''the FamilySearch Catalog'''] and enter the name of the town in the "Place" search field. If there is an item there for any town of that name, the catalog will bring up a list, automatically adding country and province information. | *One of your eventual questions is whether the church records you seek have been microfilmed or digitized by FamilySearch. You can just by-pass all this geography and jump to checking to see if FamilySearch has the records. If the town is a parish, it might show up immediately in that system. Occasionally a town will show up listed under the parish that has it records. Go to [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search '''the FamilySearch Catalog'''] and enter the name of the town in the "Place" search field. If there is an item there for any town of that name, the catalog will bring up a list, automatically adding country and province information. | ||
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==If the churches have placed the records in archives for safekeeping, which archives have jurisdiction for the area?== | ==If the churches have placed the records in archives for safekeeping, which archives have jurisdiction for the area?== | ||
==If you are looking for civil registration records (anything after 1876, and in some states sooner), where is the Standesamt (civil registry office) located?== | ==If you are looking for civil registration records (anything after 1876, and in some states sooner), where is the Standesamt (civil registry office) located?== | ||