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

North Frisian: Boorlem

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

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

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from CompGen. For more information, see the entry for Bordelum. Also see the English or German GenWiki listing (the information may be different in the two languages).

Locations within Bordelum

 * Addebüll (Danish: Adebøl)
 * Büttjebüll (Danish: Byttebøl; North Frisian: Bötjebel)
 * Dörpum (Danish: Dørpum; North Frisian: Toorpem) with Dörpumfeld (Danish: Dørpummark; North Frisian: Toorpemfäil)
 * Ebüll (Danish: Ebøl; North Frisian: Äbel)
 * Margarethenberg
 * Ost-Bordelum with Ost-Bordelumfeld
 * Sterdebüll (Danish: Sterdebøl)
 * Stollberg (Danish: Stolbjerg)
 * Uphusum (Danish: Ophusum)
 * West-Bordelum

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.

Bordelum had its own Protestant parish. The following website(s) have digitized church records for the parish of Bordelum: 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
Bordelum had its own civil registration office. Civil registration for Bordelum began on 1 October 1874.

For Bordelum 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 Bordelum:
 * 1803
 * 1835
 * 1840
 * 1845
 * 1855
 * 1860

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

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

Related Sources
Bordelum is now part of the collective municipality of Mittleres Nordfriesland. The 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.