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Pommern / Pomeranian Research Resources
Religion and Church Records (Kirchenbücher)
Most of the parish registers in the area that was East Germany are still held
by local parish officials. They belong to the parish and their use is controlled
by the rules of those parishes. You may or may not get results from sending
inquiries to individual parishes for a variety of reasons. Many of the current
young pastors are often unfamiliar with genealogical methods or cannot read the
old script in which the records were written. Inquiries at times are discarded
without a response. The area near the Oder River, where some of the
Bogenschneider family groups lived, were destroyed during World War II and some
of the records have been lost.
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 2000, according to which church
books cannot be put to use of 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 1909, confirmation registers until 31 December 1924, and
marriage registers until 31 December 1929.
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Architektura Sakralna
Pomorza Zachodniego - Pictures of former Pommern churches in Poland.
Click on A to Z on the right and it brings up church pictures from many
different cities/villages. It gives the Polish name with the German name in
smaller letters below.
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Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv, Regensburg. Bishopric Central Archive,
Regensburg. Contact information. (In German)
- Catholic Churches in Germany. Click on
"Bistümer" for a list of Archdiosese. (In German)
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Church Archives in Greifswalde. List of the village church records held
at the Church Archives of Greifswalde. It does not indicate what years are
included.
- Deutsche
Zentralstelle für Genealogie, Sächsisches Staatarchiv, Schongauerstrße
1, 04329 Leipzig, Germany. Has a few parish records for Pomerania. (In
German and English)
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Diözesan-Archiv Berlin. Diocesan archive of Berlin. Contact information.
(In German)
- Diözesanarchiv Köslin (Koszalin) Diocesan archive of Köslin. Contact
information. (In German)
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Diözesanarchiv Posen (Poznan). Diocesan archive of Posen. Contact
information. (In German, with English link)
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Diözesanarchiv Stettin-Cammin(Szczecin-Kamien Pom.) Diocesan archive of
Stettin and Cammin. Contact information. (In German)
- Evangelical Churches in Germany.
Evangelische Kirche in
Deutschland .Click on "Gemeinden A-Z" for a list of parishes. (In
German)
- Evangelisches Zentral-Archiv in Berlin .
Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland und der Evangelischen Kirche
der Union. Evangelical Church Central Archive in Berlin (EZA). Catalogue of
parish books of the eastern church provinces of the evangelical church of
the old Prussian union. Includes a listing of Pommern church books sorted by
town. Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Kirchenbuchstelle, Bethaniendamm 29,
10997 Berlin, Germany. (In English and German) Email:
archiv@ezab.de
- Kirchenbücher
vom Kreis Pyritz / Pommern. Church records from Kreis Pyritz in Pommern.
(In German)
- Kirchenbücher
von Schurow Kreis Stolp / Pommern. Church records from Schurow, Kreis
Stolp. (In German)
- Kirchenprovinz Pommern.
Information on location of Pommern church records. (In German)
- Marriage Records:
Mecklenburg Marriage Information and Pommern Marriage Information. Edited by
Carol Gohsman Bowen. (In English)
- Pommerndatenbank. Information
about church books and civil records and where to locate them. From the
database for genealogy in Pommern by Gunthard Stübs. Click on the third link
for "Church Books and Civil Records. (In German and English)
- Pommersche
Evangelishe Kirche, Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Mecklenburgs.
Researching family history in the Pomeranian Protestant Church -- how and
whom to contact. English pages.
- Pommersche Evangelishce
Kirche, Landeskirchliches Archiv, Rudolf-Petershagen-Allee 3, 17489
Greifswald, Germany. Email:
archiv@pom-ev-kriche.de. Holds some original records from eastern
Pomerania, as well as duplicate records from some western Pomeranian
churches. Most of these church records have not been filmed by the Mormons.
- Protestant Churches in Germany. In
German, with some English. It has a page for every "church province" and the
addresses and web sites of church communities by location.
- Synode der
Pommerschen Evangelischen Kirche. Beschlüsse, Berichte, Fakten, Vorträge
der Landessynode der Pommerschen Evangelischen Kirche. (In German)
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Zarben and Hagenow Parish, Kreis Greifenberg. Extraction of family names
in search of Buntrock and Storm entries.
- A good source on the post-war status of Pommern church and civil records
is "In Search of Your German Roots," 4th edition by Angus Baxter. Details
how church authorities in various centers ordered the ministers of the
Evangelical church to bring all church records to the west near Frankfort
for storage in mine shafts. After the war many of these church records were
damaged by thieves and arsonists, and many were destroyed. At the end of
WWII, Paul Langheinrich, a member of the LDS Church, instituted a search for
church books and records in the areas occupied by Soviet forces. He was
very successful in this effort and later obtained permission from the Soviet
government to take all the books he had found to Berlin.
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