This is interesting. I understood many of the Mennonite records would be inside the Lutheran records for the time I am researching (early 1700's in the Worms area). Does anyone know if these are filmed by the LDS or just where these records might be? Thanks Karen On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, ÷j. wrote: > St.Petersburg was where the Lutheran Church had it's "headquarters" [HQ] for > amongst others the Lutheran Churches in the S.Russia region < near the Black > Sea >. > > It, the HQ, was called the Consistory. Local churches were expected to send > copies of their churchbooks to their HQ..., which in retrospect was a great > idea, or we would not have any records... as the local records were lost by > and large.