Flieden Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Flieden Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Jurisdictional Changes
Flieden has belonged to the following independent countries or post-1871 German states:

Place Names
A very good gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Flieden.

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from Compgen. For more information, see the entry for Flieden.

Catholic
Catholic church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Fulda Diocesan Archive in Fulda, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Matricula Online. You can learn how to use Matricula Online by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

St. Goar
Church records begin in 1644.


 * 1644-1960 Church records 1644-1960 at Matricula Online - images

Jewish Records
Jewish Records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Hessian Main State Archive in Wiesbaden, Germany. The following digitized records are available in the Hessian Vital Records collection in LAGIS (Hessian Regional History Information System). These records have been indexed by JewishGen and can be searched for in their JewishGen German Collection database. Results are found in The Hessen Gatermann Index database. For help with understanding the Hebrew calendar dates click here.


 * 1823-1885 Births 1823-1885 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images; includes a 1869 land sale document
 * 1834-1885 Marriages 1834-1885 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images
 * 1823-1885 Deaths 1823-1885 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Flieden began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Family History Society for Nassau and Frankfurt Hessian Family History Association Hessian State Archives Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck