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*GERMANY - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS | *GERMANY - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS | ||
*GERMANY, [STATE] - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS | *GERMANY, [STATE] - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS | ||
=== Church Records on the Internet === | |||
The new [http://www.kirchenbuchportal.de/inhalt.htm Kirchenbuchportal] (church book portal) has been created by the Association of Church Archives, ecumenical orgnization, to facilitate access to German-language church records. As of July 2010 several archives have posted detailed inventories of the parish registers in their collections. Details about the participating archives, including links to posted inventories, are found [http://www.kirchenbuchportal.de/visit.htm here]. A database of all inventoried records, arranged by archive, is found [http://www.kirchenbuchportal.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3708 here]. | |||
As of July 2010 digized records are not accessible from this site. The immediate goal is to facilitate access to parish registers by making it easier to see which records are available at a given archive and what years they cover. This is accomplished through online inventories and church records database. Longer term, however, the participating archives intend to make digital images of their church records available on the Internet. Access will be fee-based to help defray the cost of the neccessary equipment. A pilot project can be viewed at [http://www.matricula.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3670 Matricula.eu], where church books for several Catholic parishes from the Passau, Bavaria area and Evangelical church books from the Gelnhausen, Hessen-Nassau area are already available without charge. | |||
=== Records at the Family History Library === | === Records at the Family History Library === | ||
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The Family History Library has mostly pre-1875 church records. Use the catalog to determine whether the library has records for the place your ancestor came from. The library does not have records that were not available in the archive at the time of microfilming, were not microfilmed, or were restricted from public access by the laws of the country. | The Family History Library has mostly pre-1875 church records. Use the catalog to determine whether the library has records for the place your ancestor came from. The library does not have records that were not available in the archive at the time of microfilming, were not microfilmed, or were restricted from public access by the laws of the country. | ||
On FamilySearch™ at [http://www.familysearch.org/ www.familysearch.org] , search for the name of the town where the parish was located (not necessarily the town where your ancestor lived). | On FamilySearch™ at [http://www.familysearch.org/ www.familysearch.org] , search for the name of the town where the parish was located (not necessarily the town where your ancestor lived). | ||
=== Locating Records Not at the Family History Library === | === Locating Records Not at the Family History Library === | ||