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• Ariadne, Archive Portal for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

This website will give you all possible record locations for a given place name. For instance: For the town Zarrentin, one can find documents in the city archives of Stralsund, Wismar, and  Schwerin in the state archives of  Greifswald and Schwerin, in the communal archive of Nordvorpommern and in the Church archive in Schwerin. Clicking on the boxes at the left will then give further information about the time frame of the documents.

Church Archives

Landeskirchliches Archiv Mecklenburg
Postfach 110407
19004 Schwerin
Germany
Reading room and office building:
Am Dom 2
19055 Schwerin
Germany
Tel .: 0385 20223-292
Fax: 0385 20223-299
Mail: schwerin @ archiv.nordkirche.de
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• List of microfilmed records.

Mecklenburgisches Kirchenbuchamt
Münzstr. 8
D-19010 Schwerin
Germany

Area, City, and University Archives

• Landkreis Bad Doberan Kreisarchiv, August-Bebel-Str. 3, D-18209 Bad Doberan
• Landkreis Güstrow Kreisarchiv, D-18273 Güstrow
• Landkreis Ludwigslust Kreisarchiv, Alexandrienstr. 576, D-19288 Ludwigslust
• Landkreis Müritz Kreisarchiv, Kietzstr. 10/11, D-17192 Waren
• Stadtarchiv Waren, Neuer Markt, D-17192 Waren
• Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg Kreisarchiv, Börzower Weg 1, D-23936 Grevesmühlen
• Landkreis Parchim Kreisarchiv, Moltkeplatz 2, D-19370 Parchim, Postfach 53 und 54, D-19361 Parchim
• Stadtarchiv Parchim, Putlitzer Str. 56, D-19370 Parchim
• Stadtarchiv Schwerin, Platz der Jugend 12-14, D-19053 Schwerin
• Central Land Archives, Grundbucharchiv Schwerin, Lübeckerstr. 287, D-19059 Schwerin
• Stadtarchiv Wismar, Vor dem Fürstenhof, D-23966 Wismar