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 Book:&nbsp;Königlich Preußisches Statistisches Landesamt. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/14875 ''Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preußen'']. Berlin&nbsp;: Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Landesamts, 1907-1909. (FS Library&nbsp;book 943 E5kp.) - multiple volumes.
-Online: This gazetteer is also available online at Ancestry.com in the database [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=34415 Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preußen]. Enter place names into the "keyword" field for best results, and ignore diacritical marks (Umlaute) or browse images by volume.&nbsp;Various volumes are also available on GoogleBooks and the DigiBib (Digital Library) on [http://compgen.de/ Compgen.de].&nbsp; To see translations of the Hessen-Nassau headings for this gazetteer [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/images/a/a2/Preussen_Hessen2_gaz_headings.pdf click here.] For headings for the other Prussian regions [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Prussia-Posen_Gazetteers click here]
+Online: This gazetteer is also available online at Ancestry.com in the database [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=34415 Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preußen]. Enter place names into the "keyword" field for best results, and ignore diacritical marks (Umlaute) or browse images by volume.&nbsp;Various volumes are also available on GoogleBooks and the DigiBib (Digital Library) on [http://compgen.de/ Compgen.de].&nbsp;
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+====== Gemeindelexikon column headings: ======
+) Consecutive number of the locality
+) Name of the locality
+) Total area belonging to this locality, measured in hectares ( one hectar is approximately C acres)
+) Average tax yield of one hectare (this reflects the quality of the land for economic production)
+) Inhabited residential houses
+) Other inhabited structures, huts, tents, ships, wagons, etc.
+) Ordinary households of two or more persons
+) Single persons with their own household
+'''Items 9 to 25 detail the local population as of 1 December 1905'''
+) Total population
+Among them are:
+) Male persons
+) Active military persons
+'''Evangelical (this includes the Lutherans and Reformed denominations)'''
+) Total population
+of those speak:
+) German
+) Polish (in Waldeck and Pyrmont, Hannover Westfalen,  Pommern, Posen, Brandenburg, Westpreussen, Ostpreussen, Schlesien)
+or Dutch (in Hannover, Rheinland, Westfalen)
+or Danish or Norwegian (in Schleswig-Holstein)
+or Italian (in Rheinland, Waldeck and Pyrmont, Hannover)
+or French (in Rheinland)
+or Frisian (in Schleswig-Holstein, Hannover)
+) Another language
+) German and another language (The number of columns in this section may vary from province to province, depending on the number of languages spoken in the area)
+'''Catholic (Columns 17 to 21 provide the identical information for this denomination as 12-16 for the Evangelical population.)'''
+) Other Christians
+) Jews
+) Those of other and unknown religious denominations
+) Evangelical parish
+) Catholic parish
+) Civil registration office
+) Police district or court district (terms vary in the various volumes)
+) Consecutive number
 === Historical Civil Registration Offices  ===