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*Here are important details you must identify about your ancestors' town: | *Here are important details you must identify about your ancestors' town: | ||
**if you have only a village name, you will need the name of the larger municipality it was part of. | **if you have only a village name, you will need the name of the larger municipality it was part of. | ||
**the county ( | **the county (Kreis), province or duchy, and other jurisdictions governing that town, | ||
**where the civil registration office ("Standesamt") was and now is, | **where the civil registration office ("Standesamt") was and now is, | ||
**where the Evangelical Lutheran or Catholic parish church overseeing that town was (depending on their religion), | **where the Evangelical Lutheran or Catholic parish church overseeing that town was (depending on their religion), | ||