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In March 2009 the Landesarchiv Baden-Wuerttemberg made images of Jewish records available on the Internet. Previously this collection could only be viewed on microfilm at the State Archive in Stuttgart. The collection includes birth, marriage, and death registers, family books, and other lists, mostly from the 19th Century. | In March 2009 the Landesarchiv Baden-Wuerttemberg made images of Jewish records available on the Internet. Previously this collection could only be viewed on microfilm at the State Archive in Stuttgart. The collection includes birth, marriage, and death registers, family books, and other lists, mostly from the 19th Century. | ||
This collection, | This collection, part of the "Gatermann films", complements the records available at the Family History Library and elsewhere for this area. | ||
During the Nazi Era, Jewish communities in Baden, Hohenzollern, and Wuerttemberg were required to give up their records to government authorities. This included births, marriages, deaths, circumcision records, cemetery registers, and membership lists. The collected material was microfilmed in 1943-1945 in different sets. The original records are now presumed lost, but the films survived the War and eventually ended up in different archives. The Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig has | During the Nazi Era, Jewish communities in Baden, Hohenzollern, and Wuerttemberg were required to give up their records to government authorities. This included births, marriages, deaths, circumcision records, cemetery registers, and membership lists. The collected material was microfilmed in 1943-1945 in different sets. The original records are now presumed lost, but the films survived the War and eventually ended up in different archives. The Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig has films from Prussian Poland and the former East Germany, and the Landesarchiv Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart has a different set. | ||
In March 2009 the Landesarchiv in Stuttgart made digital copies of its Jewish records set ([https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=5632 Bestand J386] in 126 rolls of microfilm) available on the Interrnet, along with an alphabetical list of Jewish records extant for localities in Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hohenzollern. This inventory also lists | In March 2009 the Landesarchiv in Stuttgart made digital copies of its Jewish records set ([https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=5632 Bestand J386] in 126 rolls of microfilm) available on the Interrnet, along with an alphabetical list of Jewish records extant for localities in Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hohenzollern. This inventory also lists regionally relevant records available at the Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig, but digital images are only available for the records kept in Stuttgart [Bestand J386]. Microfilm copies of the records kept in Leipzig are available through the LDS Family History center system. Thus, both sets of records are now accessible to the family historian. | ||
The Karlsruhe branch of the Landesarchiv has put on line the duplicate church and synagogue registers for northern Baden, covering approximately 1810 to January 1870. | |||
[[https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=12390]] Similarly, the Freiburg branch has published those records for southern Baden. [[https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=10028]] Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran and other records are bound together, year by year. A Familysearch indexing project is underway. | |||
==== Navigating the site ==== | ==== Navigating the site ==== | ||
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*" Seite [Bitte wählen]" brings up the list of available pages, so you can click on a page number. The system then loads that page plus the next nine images | *" Seite [Bitte wählen]" brings up the list of available pages, so you can click on a page number. The system then loads that page plus the next nine images | ||
"Bildanzeige modifizieren" means " Modify the way the image is displayed". | "Bildanzeige modifizieren" means "Modify the way the image is displayed". | ||
== Collections in Archives and Societies == | == Collections in Archives and Societies == | ||