Speele Parish, Hanover, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Speele Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Jurisdictional Changes
Speele 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 Speele.

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

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hanover are held at the Archive of the Lutheran-Protestant Church of Hanover. Church records for Wahnhausen 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.

Speele
Church records begin in 1650. They are available at the Archive of the Lutheran-Protestant Church of Hanover.

Wahnhausen
The village of Wahnhausen was in Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, but it belonged to the parish in Hanover, Prussia.

Church records begin in 1680.


 * 1680-1834 Church records 1680-1834 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1794-1872 Church records 1794-1872 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1857-1906 Church records 1857-1906 at Archion - images, ($); record kept by school teacher
 * 1691-1795 Baptisms 1691-1795 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1840-1950 Baptisms 1840-1950 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1840-2000 Confirmations 1840-2000 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1840-1974 Marriages 1840-1974 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1840-2000 Burials 1840-2000 at Archion - images, ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Speele began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries

 * Lower Saxony National Association for Family Studies
 * Working Group Family Research of the "Emsland Landscape"
 * Genealogical-Heraldic Society, headquartered in Göttingen, Germany
 * Working Group of Lingen family researchers in the Heimatverein Lingen e. V.
 * AG Ancestor and family research in the city and district of Uelzen (AG in the Museum and Home Society of Uelzen County)
 * Arbeitskreis Harz of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für mitteldeutsche Familienforschung (AMF)
 * Working Group for Families in the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Holzminden e. V.
 * Genealogical Society Goslar
 * Osnabrück Familienforschung