Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:48:14 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: [GV] German Parish Records re: Reformed Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Julius Eifert <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:07:01 To: Gary Martens<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GV] German Parish Records re: Reformed This is a little off topic, but here is a link for ortsippenbuch. http://www.online-ofb.de/ Ortsippenbuch have not been done for that many villages, but if yours is one of them, there is a lot of information they contain. The website also covers some countries outside modern day Germany, with one U.S. location. Bill Pickelhaupt On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Gary Martens <[email protected]>wrote: > > Well, reading between the lines, and doing some more searching, here's > the web site: > http://www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/category.php?cat=4 > > and his name is Kevan Hansen. There are eight hardcover map guides > priced at $63.70 each, and some soft cover guides (some are the same as > the hard cover) priced at $34.25. > > If you go to the web site, and click on the guide name, a detailed > description page is displayed which gives a list of all place names > covered in the volume. > > Familyroots.com doesn't sell anything like this. > > Gary Martens > > > On 3/15/2011 6:53 PM, Jerry and Fran Goertzen wrote: > > < [email protected] > Hanson is the publisher > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Martens" > > <[email protected]> > > To: "Jerry and Fran Goertzen" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:18 PM > > Subject: Re: [GV] German Parish Records re: Reformed > > > > > > > > Where are these German Map Guides by Kevin Hansen ??? > > > > I see these for Hannover: http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=8413 > > > > Gary Martens > > > > > > On 3/13/2011 8:13 PM, Jerry and Fran Goertzen wrote: > >> Neil; > >> The German Map Guides of Kevin Hansen are very complete. If you were > >> told that they do not contain "Reformed Church" records, you were > >> misinformed. It would seem likely the person to say that hadn't > >> really looked in the books in depth. > >> The two predominate religions in the Germanic areas were Catholic and > >> Lutheran, so the books were designed to cover the parish maps and > >> villages of those two religions. In each area there was a scattering > >> of other religious churches but not enough to make up separate parish > >> maps, but Hansen did include the parish records for each religion in > >> each area. The "Reformed Church" was probably the third largest but > >> they had split into different denominations. I have found Dutch > >> Reformed, French Reformed, German Reformed and Walloon Reformed in > >> many of his books. Most of the reformed "reformed" mentioned in the > >> Russian records were German reformed. Hansen also included Mennonite > >> and Jewish parishes when he found them. They are all listed in the > >> "Other Churches chapter" of each book. The Hessen book Vol I, has a > >> few French Reformed but there are 38 German Reformed churches listed > >> with their microfilm numbers. Three of these churches are in Kreis > >> Büdingen. Once you find your village, you can check the film of the > >> nearest Reformed church. > >> As far as finding a reliable researcher in Germany, I wouldn't know > >> since I have never used one. I'm still searching for my Isenburg > >> village. Maybe some of the other Ger-Volga readers can recommend a > >> reliable one. Jerry > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >