I am currently searching the area of West Prussia, Kreis Rosenburg, Gross Herzogswalde. I ordered the film from LDS and I have found most of my maternal ancestors there, but not the paternal ancestors. For that I will have to look into the neighboring village of Schakenbruch. I was told that this village is in the parish of Bellschwitz. While LDS did not have Schakenbruch listed for films, it did have the civil registration for Bellschwitz. Will I obtain much information from the civil registration? Also, does anyone know of the church that they might have attended in that area if they were Lutheran? Thanks:) Linda

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tairis" <Tairis@tampabay.rr.com> > While LDS did not have Schakenbruch listed for films, it did have the > civil > registration for Bellschwitz. Will I obtain much information from the > civil registration? Hi Linda, That depends on the time frame of the civil registration, what information you've already found and what you're trying to find, and what you consider "much information." :) The Bremen Civil Registration records I have used date back to the late 1820s and they are fantastic. Used in conjunction with the church records of the village, I put together the entire family including all children, parents, grand-parents, and great-grandparents in an afternoon. I struck the mother-lode. Of course, it took me three years to get to that point but that's irrelevant <g>. Those civil birth records I used had date of birth, name of each parent with their occupation and birth date. It also had the mid-wife's name and the date the child was registered. The civil marriage and death records included the same info including the names of the parents. I don't recall any of them listing place of birth for the subject, but it's been a while since I looked at them and could be mistaken. As always, content on records varied from locale to locale and epoch to epoch. Good luck, LGO