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*The practice of keeping parish registers evolved slowly. | *The practice of keeping parish registers evolved slowly. | ||
**Lutheran churches in general began requiring records around 1540. | **Lutheran churches in general began requiring records around 1540. | ||
** | **Catholic parish records were mandated by the pope in 1563. | ||
**By 1650 most Reformed parishes began keeping records. | **By 1650 most Reformed parishes began keeping records. | ||
* | *A large number church records were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). | ||
* | *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. | ||
*World War II caused destruction of some church records, particularly Lutheran records, in areas that became modern Poland. | |||
For more information, see [[Germany Church History|Germany Church History]] and [[Germany History|Germany History]]. | For more information, see [[Germany Church History|Germany Church History]] and [[Germany History|Germany History]]. | ||