Richard, the Evangelische Landeskirche Württemberg (Evangelical Church of Württemberg) has produced films about all evangelical church books of Württemberg inclusive those in the Haupstaatsarchiv Stuttgart. LDS owns copies of these films. This site might be helpful to learn more about this item: <http://www.elk- wue.de/fileadmin/mediapool/elkwue/dokumente/Merkblatt_Familienforschun g_LKArchiv_english.pdf> Dieter -- Dieter Joos Ueberlingen / Bodensee, Germany Webmaster of RootsWeb's Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List On 10 Aug 2008 at 15:59, Dick Hillenbrand wrote: > Dieter, > > Do you know if LDS ever filmed the records in the Hauptstaatsarchiv in > Stuttgart? > > I just looked at their online library catalog at FamilySearch.org and > it appears as though they have overviews of the holdings, but I was > not able to find any specific locations listed. > > Thank you. > > Richard Hillenbrand > > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Dieter Joos <djoos@dieter-joos.de> > wrote: > > > Paul, > > > > On 9 Aug 2008 at 19:52, Paul Rands wrote: > > > > +++++ > > About civil records > > In the the German Empire civil registration were introduced by law > > in not until 1875. In the time before the German states handled the > > civil registration separately. In Württemberg the king ordered 1808 > > that the minister of the church had to act as his registrator of the > > civil records. In this function the minister had to deliver copies > > of his records to the administration in Stuttgart. Today these are > > preserved in the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Stuttgart. > > +++++ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message