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====Town Genealogies (Ortssippenbuch or Ortsfamilienbuch)====
See the class {{LearningCenter2|502|'''Online Ortsfamilienbücher at Genealogy.net'''}} and the Wiki article, [[Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet|'''Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet'''.]]
Published town genealogies, Ortssippenbuch (town lineage book) or Ortsfamilienbuch (town family book), generally include birth, marriage, and death data for all persons found in the local records during a specified time period, compiled into families based on the opinion of the author.  '''If one is available, it should only be used as an ''index or guide'' to finding the original records. They usually contain errors. Always verify their information in original records.
*Over 620 online town genealogies are currently accessible at [http://www.online-ofb.de/ '''Online Ortsfamilienbücher''']. 
*A list of published Ortssippenbücher is found at:[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortsfamilienbuch '''Category: Family Book'''] on the same website. 

*For more information and '''online searchable''' collections of town genealogy books,''' by region''', see [[German Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet#Bibliographies of Town Genealogies|'''Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet''']]. 
*A bibliography of OFBs held by the [http://www.ahnenforschung-hessen.de/zentralstelle/zentralstelle.html '''Central Office for Person and Family History,'''] and available in their archive in Frankfurt am Main-Höchst, is listed [http://www.ahnenforschung-hessen.de/zentralstelle/ortssippenbuecher.htm '''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.<br>