Ancestry.com Adds Millions of German Civil Vital Records to Their Website

Ancestry.com posted several million indexed digitized civil register records this last week. The registers are from a number of areas of Germany – and include not only civil vital records registers, but residence registrations, recruitment records, emigration and family registers. There are even a few parish register transcripts. Doing a quick search for the surname Meitzler in the Rhineland-Palatinate records, I found a number of Meitzlers for whom I had no previous information. Cool…

State – Records – Title – Link

Bavaria – 2K – Grafing, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2993
Bavaria – 7K – Grafing, Germany, Births, 1876-1900 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5225
Bavaria – 5K – Grafing, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5229
Bavaria – 4K – Regen, Germany, Marriages 1876-1934 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9018
Bavaria – 12K – Regen, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1983 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9019
Bavaria – 12K – Mühldorf am Inn, Germany, Births, 1876-1899 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9020
Bavaria – 10K – Regen, Germany, Births, 1876-1904 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9027
Bavaria – 16K – Mühldorf am Inn, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60559
Bavaria – 5K – Mühldorf am Inn, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60560
Berlin – 2 million – Berlin, Germany, Selected Marriages, 1874-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2957
Berlin – 1.1 million – Berlin, Germany, Selected Deaths, 1874-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2958
Berlin – 900K – Berlin, Germany, Births, 1874-1899 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5753
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – 250K – UPDATE: Mecklenburg, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1740-1918 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1627
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – 6K – UPDATE: Grevesmühlen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Births, 1876-1901 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5291
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – 6K – Rehna, Germany, Births, 1876-1899 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7923
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – 7K – Rehna, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8088
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – 12K – Rehna, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8149
Pomerania – 988K – Pomerania, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1544-1883 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8798
Lower Saxony – 3K – Diepholz, Germany, Marriages, 1874-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7702
Lower Saxony – 7K – Diepholz, Germany, Births, 1874-1899 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7703
Lower Saxony – 9K – Diepholz, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1950 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7773
Lower Saxony – 22K – Diepholz, Germany, Residence Registration, 1874-1913 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7784
Lower Saxony – 53K – Delmenhorst, Germany, Residence Registration, 1858-1901 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9183
Lower Saxony – 9K – Delmenhorst, Germany, Recruitment Rolls, 1856-1900 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9184
Lower Saxony – 15K – Delmenhorst, Germany, Marriages 1876-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9185
Rhineland-Palatinate – 80K – Mainz, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1920 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4881
Rhineland-Palatinate – 16K – Mainz, Germany, Emigration Register, 1856-1877 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7507
Rhineland-Palatinate – 209K – Mainz, Germany, Family Registers 1760-1900 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8958
Saxony – 720K – Dresden, Germany, Births, 1876-1902 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5405
Saxony – 328K – Dresden, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1922 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9152
Saxony – 450K – Dresden, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1951 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9153
Schleswig-Holstein – 137K – Flensburg, Germany, Death Index Cards, 1874-1982 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9104
Baden-Württemberg – 645K – Mannheim, Germany, Family Registers, 1760-1900 – http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7575

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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