Melsungen Parishes, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Melsungen 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
Melsungen 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 Melsungen.

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

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church Archive 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.

Melsungen
Church records begin in 1619.


 * 1619-1634 Church records 1619-1634 at Archion – images, ($)

Kirchhof

 * 1730-1759 Church records 1730-1759 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1760-1830 Church records 1760-1830 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1911 Baptisms 1830-1911 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1912-2004 Baptisms 1912-2004 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-2004 Confirmations 1831-2004 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1968 Marriages 1830-1968 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1973 Burials 1830-1973 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1974-2003 Burials 1974-2003 at Archion – images, ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Melsungen 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