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Guide to Mottgers Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Switzerland 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 Mottgers.

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. More recent records may be restricted.

Lutheran
Church records begin in 1650.


 * church records, 1650-1661
 * church records, 1650-1764
 * church records, 1765-1772
 * church records, 1773-1817
 * church records, 1818-1830
 * baptism records, 1830-1878
 * confirmation records, 1831-1998
 * marriage records, 1831-1961
 * burial records, 1830-1944

Reformed

 * church records, 1715-1816

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Muolen families:

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Muolen prior to 1875:

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen