Brandenburg, Germany, Transcripts of Church Records, 1700-1874

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Brandenburg, Germany, Transcripts of Church Records, 1700-1874 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Zweitschriften von Kirchenbüchern ca. 1700-1874. Potsdam, Germany: Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv.

A full list of sources can be found here. This list includes parish records from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv. Parish names are bolded. Non-bolded names cite which parishes are geographically nearby. The abbreviation “TK” stands for “Tochtergemeinde” which, as well as “eingekircht”, is followed by the name of a parish which may contain the records for the town, chapel, or parish you are seeking.

About Brandenburg, Germany, Transcripts of Church Records, 1700-1874

This database contains transcripts of original parish registers from the state of Brandenburg, Germany, for the years ca. 1700-1874. The transcripts were prepared to aid in government civil registration. The registers record births, marriages, and deaths, as well as confirmations and lists of communicants for some years.

The parishes include localities that were formerly part of the province of Brandenburg but are now in Poland, as well as some locations that were historically part of the neighboring provinces of Posen, Pommern, and Schlesien that are now in Poland. Likewise, the records do not include all localities from the historic province of Brandenburg or the modern state of Brandenburg.

Records can be browsed by parish and year.

Use of the data and images in this online database is governed by the terms and conditions of this site. Any use of these records not specifically permitted in the terms and conditions requires the permission of the Brandenburg State Archive.