Germany Locating Parish Records

A gazetteer is a list and description of places. It is valuable tool to help find records for a locality. This site is a great resource for online German gazetteers. Genealogical gazetteers have been created for the following provinces:

• Bavaria
• East and West Prussia
• Hohenzollern
• Lippe (Detmold)
• Lippe (Schaumburg)
• Hessen-Darmstadt
• Hessen-Nassau
• Mecklenburg
• Waldeck

Content

Each entry may contain

• Name of town
• Province
• Kreis (district)
• Protestant Parish
• Catholic Parish
• Civil Records Office

Internet address

• http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/gazetteersmain.html

or search google.com for German gazetteer

Cost

Free