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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Malsfeld 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 Malsfeld.

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

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.

Malsfeld
Church records begin in 1657. Additional church records are available at the archive.


 * 1657-1776 Baptisms and confirmations 1657-1830 at Archion - images, ($); includes Beiseförth
 * 1658-1830 Marriages and burials 1658-1830 at Archion - images, ($); includes Beiseförth
 * 1776-1784 Church records 1776-1784 at Archion - images, ($); records kept by military chaplain G.C. Cöster for regiments of von Donop and von Losberg in America.
 * 1900-1995 Baptisms 1900-1995 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1920-1999 Burials 1920-1999 at Archion – images, ($)

Beiseförth
Church records after 1830 are available at the archive.

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Malsfeld 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