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

Guide to Niederelsungen 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
Niederelsungen 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 Niederelsungen.

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

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.

Lutheran
Church records begin in 1645.


 * 1645-1696 Church records 1645-1696 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1696-1772 Church records 1696-1772 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1773-1830 Church records 1773-1830 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1830-1878 Baptisms 1830-1878 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1878-1955 Baptisms 1878-1955 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1831-1955 Confirmations 1831-1955 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1830-1904 Marriages 1830-1904 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1830-1891 Burials 1830-1891 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1892-1985 Burials 1892-1985 at Archion - images, ($)

Jewish Records
Jewish Records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Hessian Main State Archive in Wiesbaden, Germany. The following digitized records are available in the Hessian Vital Records collection in LAGIS (Hessian Regional History Information System). These records have been indexed by JewishGen and can be searched for in their JewishGen German Collection database. Results are found in The Hessen Gatermann Index database.

Niederelsungen belonged to the Wolfhagen synagogue community.


 * 1853-1872 Births 1853-1872 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images
 * 1853-1874 Copy of births, marriages and deaths 1853-1872 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images
 * 1855-1874 Marriages 1855-1874 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images
 * 1854-1872 Deaths 1854-1872 at LAGIS-Hessen.de - images

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Niederelsungen 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