German Marriage Records

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German marriage records. This landing page is a guide to german ancestry family history and genealogy. A few records may be earlier or later. Our customers are from all over the world and and have a lot of trust in our services. Germany marriage index 1558 1929.

To view some of the images you must be at an lds family history center or a familysearch affiliated library. The first surviving protestant records date back to 1524 but lutheran churches in general began requiring baptism marriage and burial records in 1540. The year range represents most of the records. Includes some german baptism marriage and death indexes and other items.

Searching for german records. Birth records marriage records death records census records family history etc. 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. Catholics began doing so in 1563 and by 1650 most reformed parishes began.

Nassau suffolk counties new york marriages index. This index currently contains nassau county and suffolk county new york marriage records from 1904 1939. Familysearch also has some digitized microfilm of german genealogy records. Germany online genealogy records this chart shows links to countrywide collections.

Germany service offers a large number of different and dependable services from germany and austria. A genealogist s translation guide to polish german latin and russian documents. Index to selected germany marriages. Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed.

Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. German birth certificates vital records german marriage certificates from standesamt. Official documents from germany. Often called parish registers or church books these include records of births baptism marriages deaths and burials recorded by german churches.

Anatomy of a german marriage record published on october 27 2017 november 6 2017 by julie roberts szczepankiewicz 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. Over 7 million marriage records from across germany have been transcribed and are available in a free online index from familysearch.