Germany Empire and Current States: Difference between revisions

After East Germany and West Germany were reunited, these jurisdictions of the government were put in place.  Generally, when researching genealogical records, it is important to discern what government entity would have jurisdiction over the records of that locality at the time the record was made. For example, if the town your ancestor came from is in Baden-Württemberg today, the records in 1890 might be found in a library catalog under just Baden. If you learn that your ancestor lived in Baden in 1890, and you want to write to the local church to enquire about records, use Baden-Württemberg in the address.

===Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen)===

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|'''Kreise of the Neumark in 1873'''<br>

2.  When dealing with modern locations, archives, and parish correspondence, they will be part of Poland.

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===Brunswick (Braunschweig)===

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===Prussia===

[[Neumark (region), Brandenburg, Germany Genealogy|'''Brandenburg:''' the Neumark region,]] 1945: [[Neumark (region), Brandenburg, Germany Genealogy|Poland]] <br>

[[East Prussia, Germany Genealogy|'''East Prussia,]]''' 1945:  

*[[East Prussia, Germany Genealogy|Northern East Prussia]] was divided between:

**[[Russia Genealogy|the '''Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) Oblast''']]: Russia

*'''western Pomerania''' is in [[Pomerania, Germany Genealogy|Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany]]

*[[Pomerania, Germany Genealogy |'''Pomeralia (Gdansk Pomerania, or East Pomerania''')]]: Poland

[[Posen, Germany Genealogy|'''Posen,''']] 1919: Wielkie Księstwo Poznańskie, Poland<br>

'''[[Silesia, Germany Genealogy|Silesia (Schlesien),]]'''1945:

*mostly in [[Poland Genealogy|Poland]]

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[[Silesia, Germany Genealogy|'''Upper Silesia''']], 1919: [[Poland Genealogy|Poland]] <br>

[[West Prussia, Germany Genealogy|'''West Prussia''',]] 1919: Pomeranian Voivodeship, [[Poland Genealogy|Poland]]

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<center>'''Modern Saarland and Former Areas Now in Saarland'''<br>

'''Saar-Pfalz-(kreis or county) Was Bavarian'''<br>

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'''"Old Saxony"' is the original homeland of the Saxons in the northwest corner of modern Germany and corresponds approximately to the modern German states of:<br>

*[[Germany Historic and Current States#Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)|'''Lower Saxony''']]  

*[[North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Genealogy|'''Westphalia (Westfalen)''']]

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'''Historic areas'''<br>

*'''Free State of Anhalt'''

*'''Halle, Saxony'''

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'''From these historic areas now in'''<br>

'''Schleswig-Holstein, click below'''<br>

*[[Lübeck Genealogy|'''Lübeck''']]  

*[[Schleswig-Holstein Genealogy|'''Schleswig-Holstein''']]<br>

*the city Geesthacht

* municipalities: Großhansdorf, Schmalenbeck

====Lost Areas====

From the province of Schleswig-Holstein, these areas were<br>

*From the administrative district Herzogtum Lauenburg: the place Kurslack in the Achterschlag of the municipality Börnsen

==== Areas Now in Denmark,<br> By Kreis  ====

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'''Modern Schleswig-Holstein State in Germany'''<br>

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===Thuringia (Thüringen)===

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*Gotha, part of Saxe (Sachsen)-Coburg-Gotha

*Saxony (Sachsen)-Meiningen

*Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

*Schwarzburg Sondershausen