This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/4104.1 Message Board Post: Tom, Kirchhatten, part of a larger town called simply Hatten, was located in what was until 1945 the state (until 1918, Grand Duchy) of Oldenburg, the capital of which was the city of Oldenburg, in northwestern Germany near the North Sea. To my knowledge, the Mormons have not microfilmed those church records. You will have to contact St. Ansgar's Evangelical Lutheran Church (St.-Ansgari-Kirche) in Hatten directly. Here is the contact information: Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Hatten Wildeshauser Str. 2 26209 Hatten GERMANY phone: 011-49-4482-329 e-mail: evltkg-hatten@t-online.de Like Kirchhatten, the city of Ganderkesee was also located in the former state of Oldenburg. The Mormons have microfilmed Ganderkesee's Evangelical Lutheran church records covering the years 1660 to 1864. As you may be aware, following World War II and the break-up of the vast state of Prussia by the Allies, the Prussian province of Hanover, the state of Oldenburg, and the two very small states of Brunswick (in German: Braunschweig) and Schaumburg-Lippe combined to form today's German state of Lower Saxony (in German: Niedersachsen), with the city of Hanover (in German: Hannover) as its capital. Robert