Bohmstedt Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Danish: Bomsted

North Frisian: Bååmst

Guide to Bohmstedt Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Place Names
A great gazetteer to begin with is Meyer's Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Bohmstedt.

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from CompGen. For more information, see the entry for Bohmstedt. Also see the German GenWiki entry.

Locations within Bohmstedt

 * Bohmstedt
 * Bohmstedtfeld (Danish: Bomsted Mark)
 * Fresenhof
 * Waldheim

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein are held at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Archive of Northern Germany in Kiel, Germany.

Bohmstedt belonged to the Protestant parish of Drelsdorf (Danish: Trelstrup, Trelstorp). The following website(s) have digitized church records for the parish of Drelsdorf: More recent records may be restricted.
 * Archion, which requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no digital indexes to the records on Archion.
 * FamilySearch, which contains a mixture of indexed and non-indexed records.

Civil Registration
Bohmstedt belonged to the civil registration office of Drelsdorf. Civil registration for Drelsdorf began on 1 October 1874.

For Drelsdorf civil registration records, start by contacting the Mittleres Nordfriesland civil registration office in Bredstedt.

Census Records
Denmark conducted several censuses in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. For more information about these censuses, see the articles Denmark Census and Schleswig-Holstein Census.

The following censuses were taken for Drelsdorf:
 * 1803
 * 1835
 * 1840
 * 1845
 * 1855
 * 1860

The following website(s) have digitized census records for the parish of Drelsdorf:
 * Danish Family Search
 * FamilySearch
 * MyHeritage

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
There is no known town genealogy for the parish of Drelsdorf. For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet.

Related Sources
The Bohmstedt municipality's website (in German) can be found here.

Societies and Libraries
For a list of Schleswig-Holstein archives, see Schleswig-Holstein Archives and Libraries.

For a list of Schleswig-Holstein societies, see Schleswig-Holstein Societies.