| USE OF THE PARISH REGISTERS RESEARCH | Back |
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| Please take the following points into account: In our archives we keep first and foremost Protestant parish register or copies from the former Prussian church provinces beyond the Oder-Neisse border (Eastern Prussia, Western Prus- sia, Back Pomerania, Posen, eastern territories of Mark Brandenburg and Silesia) and some Protestant military church register. We do not possess any general registers on baptism, |
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| marriages and funerals. The place (obligatory) and the year (facultative) of the occurrence have to be indicated to initiate the search in the church books in our possession. The church books of the former Prussian church provinces beyond the Oder-Neisse border are now subject to the new term of copyright of the Archives Law of the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU) of 6 May |
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| 2000, according to which church books cannot be put to use of the third until 10 years after the death or 90 years after the birth of the person concerned have passed. Baptismal registers can be read until 31 December 1918, confirmation registers until 31 December 1933, and marriage registers until 31 December 1938. |
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| Responsible: Paresh registry (Kirchenbuchstelle), Tel. +49 (030) 22 50
45 36, e-mail: kirchenbuchstelle@ezab.de Genealogical research for private or commercial purposes is subject to fees. Protestant parish register in Germany are generally kept at parish ministries or at the corresponding evangelical provincial church. We recommend you to find out the address yourself at telephone information service or corresponding provincial church. For Catholic church register from the former East German territories, please turn to the Episcopal Central Archives Regensburg: Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv Regensburg, Postfach 110228, D - 93015 Regensburg. There is a book about the origin and meaning of family names: W. Ribbe and E. Henning, Taschenbuch für Familiengeschichtsforschung (Paperback for Family History Research), Neustadt a.d. Aisch 1995. We possess no documents in this regard to help you with. For comprehensive genealogical researches, please turn first to a genealogical association. You can get the address at your nearest public archives. Stand: 10.07. 2009 Back |
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