Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate Church Record Extractions and Family Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

{{FamilySearch_Collection|CID=CID1475962 |title=Germany, Ludwigshafen Church Record Extractions and Family Registers|location=European}}   

Kirchenbuchabschriften und familiennamenkartei von Pfälzisch-Rheinische, Ludwigschafen, Deutschland.  

This collection of records includes information extracted from church family registers for the years 1600-1925.  

This collection includes images of a combination of church family register extractions and indexes for the district of Rhine Hesse-Palatinate (Rheinland Hessen-Pfalz) in Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). Most image sets are arranged chronologically (by year of event) or alphabetically (by surname).  

The key genealogical facts found on most family registers include the following: [[Image:Germany Ludwigshafen Church Record Extractions (09-0278) Format and Symbols DGS 4284476 4.jpg|thumb|right]]  

*Information concerning emigration in the family [[Image:Germany Ludwigshafen Church Record Extractions (09-0278) DGS 4288048 1318.jpg|thumb|right]]

== How to Use the Records  ==

Family registers were created with data from the parish registers and should be used as a guide to search the actual church records for the ancestor’s christening, marriage, and burial information. Data of an ancestor can be searched by surname and place of residence. Make sure the record found is your ancestor; it is recommended to use the elimination system when more than one family has the same family name. After you have found the information for your ancestor, transfer the information onto your family history record. With this information, the data of siblings or other family members could also be researched  

Family registers may go back to the 1500s, when they began during the time of the Reformation. Because of wars, natural disasters, and accidents, many churches were destroyed, along with all or part of their records. Very few church records go back before 1650 because of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). Family registers were created with information from the parish register and should be used as a guide to search the actual church records for the ancestors’ christening, marriage, and burial information. The text in church family registers is written mainly in German. However, earlier text could be handwritten in Latin and after 1945 handwritten in Gothic script. The headings for the extracted information are in English.  

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