Hanover (Hannover) Compiled Genealogies

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Hanover (Hannover) Compiled Genealogies

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For a comprehensive understanding of compiled genealogy records, study the article Germany Compiled Genealogies.

Compiled genealogies and published genealogies are secondary sources, not original or primary sources. As such, they are subject to human error through translation or transcription errors, mistaken interpretations, and opinion decisions of another researcher. You should make every effort to base your research on the actual, original records or their digitized images.

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The following sources contain genealogies or information on them:

• Bibliography of Ostfriesland OFBs with purchasing information in the U.S.
  
• List of Ostfriesland OFBs
• Pohlsander, Hermann Walter. Genealogische Sammlung von Niedersächsischen Familien, 800-1975 (Genealogical collection of families of Lower Saxony, 800-1975). Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975. (FHL films 1,043,746-851.)

• ——. Genealogische Sammlung von Niedersächsischen Familien, 1600-1900 (Genealogical collection of families of Lower Saxony, 1600-1900). Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975. (FHL films 1,043,852-73.) This work is especially for the area around the city of Celle.

Major Nationwide Online Collections and Databases

The Family History Library has several sources that contain previous research or that can lead you to other people who are interested in sharing family information. These sources include many ancestral lines that extend into Germany:

• International Genealogical Index: This index provides names and vital information for over 25 million deceased persons who lived in Germany. This valuable research tool lists birth, baptism, or marriage dates. The index for Germany includes names extracted from parish registers by volunteers and names submitted by other researchers. You can filter on one of eight German states and filter Germany, Miscellaneous:

Alsace-Lorraine Baden Bayern Hesse-Darmstadt

Prussia Sachsen Thuringen Wuerttemberg

• Filtering on Germany, Miscellaeous.includes only the small states and free cities of:

Anhalt Braunschweig Bremen Hamburg Lippe

Lübeck Mecklenburg Oldenburg Schaumburg-Lippe Waldeck

• GEDBAS and the Metasearch at Compgen.de have searchable links to many genealogical collections.

Town Genealogy Books (Ortssippenbücher)

An Ortssippenbuch (town lineage book) or Ortsfamilienbuch (town family book) includes birth, marriage, and death data for all persons found in the local records during a specified time period, compiled into families. Sources may include the local parish registers, civil registration records, court and land records, and sometimes published material. In the printed book, this information is then arranged in a standardized format, usually alphabetically by surname and chronologically by marriage date. Family entries are identified by sequential numbers. Town genealogies are known by various names, including “town lineage book,” “local heritage book,” “one-place-studies,” “Ortssippenbuch (OSB),” and “Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB).” This article will use the term “town genealogy” and the abbreviation OFB when referring to compilations that include all or a large part of a town’s population.

• Over 620 online town genealogies are currently accessible at Online Ortsfamilienbücher.
• A list of published Ortssippenbücher is found at:Category: Family Book on the same website.

• For more information and online searchable collections of town genealogy books, by region, see Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet.
• A bibliography of OFBs held by the Central Office for Person and Family History, and available in their archive in Frankfurt am Main-Höchst, is listed here. You can arrange for copied pages to be sent to you for a fee or donation. Use the "Find" function on your keyboard to search the bibliographies, as they are not alphabetical.
  

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