Archion German Church Book Site Signs Up 3 More Evangelical State Church Archives

The Archion website is one of my favorites. Anyone doing German research needs to plan on spending a lot of time on this site!

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According to their October newsletter, Three additional evangelical state churches recently became shareholders of Kirchenbuchportal GmbH.

The regional church archives of:

  • Brunswick,
  • Lippe and the
  • Rhineland will soon have their church books on Archion!

The following is directly from the newsletter: “In late autumn the process will start with church books from the six of the 69 parishes in total within the Church of Lippe. In 2017 the first sources of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brunswick will follow.”

The following materials were recently posted:
Archive of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg (Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart) – 1570 church books from more than 100 locations

The following is currently being posted:
Archive of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg (Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart)

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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