Rhineland (Rheinland) Gazetteers

The Gemeindelexikon für Rheinland will identify the Lutheran and Catholic parishes for your locality of interest in the former Prussian province of Rheinland. It will also show the civil registration office. The 1885 Gemeindelexikon for Rheinland is online. It can be accessed at the following website:

www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gemeinde/gemeinde_index.html

To access the Gemeindelexikon für Rheinland (and all other Prussian provinces) in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City use the following call number: FHL book  943 E5kp or FHL film number 491042. Here is a diagram showing the column headings in German and their English translations: