Talk:Hesse-Nassau (Hessen-Nassau), German Empire Church Records

Edit about LDS users
The wiki is supposed to be religion neutral. The records are available to LDS users because of a conditions requested in the contract by the provider of the records to FamilySearch, not because the church wishes to discriminate against anyone. The wording for this paragraph was carefully determined by a collaborative committee of FamilySearch library consultants and Wiki administrators. Please do not change this wording in any pages.

The same committee created the format for all of these German Empire main pages, Church Records pages and Civil Registration pages. Please do not remove the numbering. Again, thank you for the extensive help you have offered to the Wiki. Your input is greatly appreciated.

hanna5974

Having been told more than once that my edits regarding record restrictions were inappropriate and potentially illegal, I will cease making edits on those topics.

But I must express my very strong opposition to how a "collaborative committee" has dictated the content of this page. A Wiki by definition is supposed to be a collaborative project that anyone/many people can edit.

If you want to dispute my edits, then there should be a discussion about it rather than you just overriding everything I did.

My edits to both this page and the Hesse (Hessen) page, and my justification for each item are:

1. Removed Numbers from titles- highly grammatically awkward 2. Mentioned how to access Catholic records- if Lutheran records are to be specially mentioned then Catholics and other large religions should be as well. Given that each religion stores their records separately and makes them accessible in different ways it is necessary to treat each religion separately. 3. Mentioned specifically what the restrictions were for records in the Catalog, especially for Catholic records- very helpful for researchers to know.

Something I couldn't work out how to change- there are two images of the Catholic diocesan boundaries on the Hessen-Nassau page. The more zoomed-in one is better.

I invite anyone with an interest in this page to discuss the above topics so we can reach a consensus. --Av85647 (talk) 20:55, 10 August 2019 (MDT)