German Marriage Records 1800s

The many formerly independent kingdoms duchies and other small and large entities that made up the german empire led to variations and customs relating to marriage.

German marriage records 1800s.

I decided to test drive it using a marriage record from the bischöfliches zentralarchiv regensburg that. These come from the late 1800s and early 1900s which are easier to read and are entered in a pre formatted book. Catholics began doing so in 1563 and by 1650 most reformed parishes began. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions such as a county town or parish go to locating online databases.

Often called parish registers or church books these include records of births baptism marriages deaths and burials recorded by german churches. Civil registrations births in west prussia for the following towns. Germany online genealogy records this chart shows links to countrywide collections. A genealogist s translation guide to polish german latin and russian documents.

Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed. Hi gregory in my experience usually the parents names are listed but it depended on the parish. The year range represents most of the records. The earliest records still available 1600s do not follow this method and is more of a paragraph style entry but have much of the same information.

I was actually just translating some forms this weekend where the parents names were written on the earlier versions of the records 1800s but as we moved into the 1900s they stopped being listed. Miscellaneous marriage index 1662 1945 an index to more than 30 000 marriage records including personal details names of relations and particulars of marriage. Marriage customs laws and records. In my last post i wrote about my excitement over my brand new copy of hoffman and shea s recently published german genealogical translation guide in their words.

The first surviving protestant records date back to 1524 but lutheran churches in general began requiring baptism marriage and burial records in 1540. An index to over 8 million marriage records including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom. A few records may be earlier or later. Zarnowitz west prussia genealogy records 1800s.

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. Index to selected germany marriages. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. Over 7 million marriage records from across germany have been transcribed and are available in a free online index from familysearch.