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 ===A Few Tricks to Try===
-====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.
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 ====Church Directories====
 Each [[Germany Genealogy#Research Instructions by 1864-1871 Region|'''Germany province page''']] has links for current church directories under the section '''Writing to an Priest for Church Records'''. Look for this: