German Marriage Certificate Records

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German marriage certificate records.

This is only a partial listing of the many german marriages recorded with the bulk of the records coming from baden bayern hessen pfalz bayern preußen rhineland westfalen and württemberg. In some cases we can get documents from the last 250 to 300 years. Before the undersigned registrar. Registration of a marriage 22 02 2020 article.

Official documents from germany. Our customers are from all over the world and and have a lot of trust in our services. Includes some german baptism marriage and death indexes and other items. This is often the beginning sentence of the marriage certificate underneath the city and date it was issued.

Below seven common phrases you might find on german marriage certificates and what they mean. To view some of the images you must be at an lds family history center or a familysearch affiliated library. Certificates that you get are issued by the governmental and official registrar s offices in germany with official seal. Two examples are provided and are from the wehdem church records.

General familysearch genealogy records germany requires free registration. Vor dem unterzeichneten standesbeamten. German church records are usually well organized and can give a lot of information about a person. If a german citizen is getting married abroad the marriage may be registered upon request at the competent registrar s office standesamt in germany and a german marriage certificate will be issued.

Familysearch also has some digitized microfilm of german genealogy records. A genealogist s translation guide to polish german latin and russian documents. Many churches in this area followed the same or a similar format. In order to prove that a marriage has been dissolved abroad the marriage certificate divorce decree and if necessary other documents must be submitted to the german authorities or courts.

Over 7 million marriage records from across germany have been transcribed and are available in a free online index from familysearch. If you are looking at levern or dielingen records for example you might some variances but you should be able to. Since 1997 we provide reliable on behalf of our client documents official records and information from germany and austria. Even if you don t speak or read german however you can still make sense of most genealogical documents found in germany with the understanding of a few key german words common english genealogy terms including record types events dates and relationships are listed here along with german words with similar meanings such as words commonly used in germany to indicate marriage including.