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

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

Place Names
The best gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Neuengronau.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Kassel, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Archion. Archion requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

Lutheran
The Lutheran residents of Neuengronau belonged to the parish of Mottgers.

Reformed
Church records begin in 1650.


 * church records 1650-1759 (church records from 1650-1663 can also be found in the parish of Mottgers)
 * church records 1760-1777
 * church records 1778-1799
 * church records 1800-1830 (available at the archive)
 * baptisms 1830-1904
 * marriages 1831-1965
 * burials 1830-1965

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Neuengronau began in October 1874.

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

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