Saxony Archives and Libraries

Here is a link to an article by Volkmar Weiss re. family history research in Saxon archives: http://www.v-weiss.de/interesse.html The author also created a list of records with genealogical content, their time frames and repositories most useful to the family researcher looking for such in Saxony. See http://www.v-weiss.de/sachsen-archive.html Clicking on "Sachregister der personengeschichtlichen Quellen" will list record types and also show for which town/village they are available. For availability of such records check also www.familysearch.org Family History Library Catalog. There is a general article about Archives and Libraries in FamilySearch Wiki, Portal Germany, Archives and Libraries which will explain the use of them in a condensed fashion.

The following is a link to the 540 or so public libraries in Freistaat Sachsen. Just enter the postal code of the town you are interested in to call up the collection or choose by subject to view each library's holdings.

http://dienste.slub-dresden.de/bibl/inhalt.php?samschp=&amp;plz=Sebni&amp;ort=&amp;doIt=Suche

The four state archives of Sachsen, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiberg and Chemnitz have their archival holdings online, see http://www.archiv.sachsen.de/5429.htm There is also a provisional archive for Bautzen.

For addresses of local archives see: http://www.archivschule.de/content/29.html