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| == Grundakten (Land Records), circa 1740-1850 ==
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| ===== General Summary<br> =====
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| The Grundakten (Land Records) include the records for the transfer of title for land tenure in the Kingdom of Bavaria. The records can include family data such as:<br>
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| *Names of children
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| *Residence of children
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| *Married names of daughters
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| *Birth dates of children
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| *Death dates for husband, wives, or children
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| The files often include the reason for transfer of title, such as:<br>
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| *Death of a husband
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| *Sale of the house or farmland<br>
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| *Payment of dowries for the daughters
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| *Mortgaging of property for debt
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| *Incapacity of the father
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| Finding this family data in the records can mean reading many pages of old German legal documents, which takes a high level of expertise with both the language and the handwriting, but the result is often worth the effort.
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| ===== Arrangement of the Records<br> =====
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| The Grundakten (Land Records) are arranged by Landgericht (Rural Court), and then by individual village, with a separate folder for each house in a village. The village files are arranged by house number. The files range from a few pages to more than a hundred pages. The files often include many transfers of land over an eighty to hundred year period, approximately 1740 to 1830. Many times the original documents are in the files, other times the files contain clerk’s copies of the originals.
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| ===== History of the Records<br> =====
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| The records were compiled between about 1810 and 1850. They were compiled as Bavaria surveyed the land after the huge expansion of the kingdom during the Napoleonic wars (1803-1812) and boundary changes from the congress of Vienna (1815). After these changes, the Kingdom a Bavaria began a detailed survey of each village in the kingdom. The survey began about 1810 and was not completed until about 1850. The Grundakten (Land Records) are just one of several record sets that resulted from these surveys. Other records created by these surveys included detailed maps of each village, and Kataster Steuergemeinde (Land Register Tax Lists).
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| ===== Scope of the Records<br> =====
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| Records were created for every house in every village of Bavaria. Only a portion of these survive. For some areas coverage is nearly complete. In other areas almost no records survive. As an example, this researcher looked in a few villages in Mittelfranken, and Oberfranken, with good success. Searches in a few villages in the Palatine (Pfalz), and Unterfranken were not successful.
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| ===== Access to the Records<br> =====
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| None of the Grundakten (Land Records) for Bavaria are available online or on microfilm. The only access is at one of the seven branches of the Bavarian State Archives. An email could be sent to the branch archive nearest your village to ask if the Grundakten (Land Records) survive for your village.<br>
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