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If you find a phrase like “with sermon” [“mit Predigt”] in a burial record, check for a published funeral sermon. If you suspect a funeral sermon was given for one of your ancestors, you can contact archives in the area where you ancestor was buried, asking for help finding the sermon. Published abstracts are often available. Two helpful lists of funeral sermon collections and indexes are listed below: | If you find a phrase like “with sermon” [“mit Predigt”] in a burial record, check for a published funeral sermon. If you suspect a funeral sermon was given for one of your ancestors, you can contact archives in the area where you ancestor was buried, asking for help finding the sermon. Published abstracts are often available. Two helpful lists of funeral sermon collections and indexes are listed below: | ||
*Wentscher, Erich, and Hermann Mitgau. Einführung in die praktische Genealogie (4. Aufl.) (Introduction to practical genealogy [Fourth Edition]). Limburg/Lahn, Germany: C. A. Starke, 1966. ( | *Wentscher, Erich, and Hermann Mitgau. Einführung in die praktische Genealogie (4. Aufl.) (Introduction to practical genealogy [Fourth Edition]). Limburg/Lahn, Germany: C. A. Starke, 1966. (FS Library book 943 B4gg v.1.) See pages 92 to 93 of the book. | ||
*Jensen, Larry O. “Leichenpredigten (Funeral sermons).” German Genealogical Digest 8 (Fourth Quarter 1992): 119-24. ( | *Jensen, Larry O. “Leichenpredigten (Funeral sermons).” German Genealogical Digest 8 (Fourth Quarter 1992): 119-24. (FS Library book 943B2g.) | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
The following source indexes abstracts of over 40,000 funeral sermons: | The following source indexes abstracts of over 40,000 funeral sermons: | ||
*Katalog der fürstlich Stolberg-Stolberg'schenLeichenpredigten-Sammlung (Catalog of the funeral sermon collection from principality of Stolberg). Leipzig, Germany: Degener, 1927-1935. ( | *Katalog der fürstlich Stolberg-Stolberg'schenLeichenpredigten-Sammlung (Catalog of the funeral sermon collection from principality of Stolberg). Leipzig, Germany: Degener, 1927-1935. (FS Library book 943 B4b v.2; films 477,802-4.) | ||
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*Funeral sermon abstracts available in the | *Funeral sermon abstracts available in the FamilySearch Library are listed in the Place Search of the catalog under: | ||
GERMANY - OBITUARIES | GERMANY - OBITUARIES | ||
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The original records are from about 450 repositories. The index is called the Union Catalog for German Collections of Personal Writings and Eulogies (see the “Archives and Libraries” section). | The original records are from about 450 repositories. The index is called the Union Catalog for German Collections of Personal Writings and Eulogies (see the “Archives and Libraries” section). | ||
{{Germany|Germany}} | {{Germany|Germany}} | ||
[[fr:Allemagne : Les Sermons Funéraires]] | |||
[[Category:Germany]] [[Category:Obituaries]] | [[Category:Germany]] [[Category:Obituaries]] | ||
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