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

Guide to Sannerz Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany 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 Sannerz.

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 Sannerz belonged to the parish of Mottgers.

Reformed
The Reformed residents of Sannerz belonged to the parishes of Ramholz after 1660 and Mottgers before 1660. Church records for Sannerz from 1650-1830 are incomplete. See Ramholz for records after 1830.


 * Sannerz church records 1850-1949 ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Sannerz 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