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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Mardorf 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 Mardorf.

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

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.

Church records begin in 1655.


 * 1655-1957 Church records 1655-1957 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.

The Mardorf synagogue community included Rossdorf, Holzhausen and Wittelsberg.


 * 1829-1878 Births 1824-1878 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images
 * 1824-1873 Marriages 1824-1873 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images
 * 1822-1880 Deaths 1822-1880 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Mardorf 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