Germany, Prussia, Saxony, Magdeburg, Miscellaneous Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Record Description
This collection contains miscellaneous records from various entities in the city of Magdeburg, Saxony, Prussia from 1686 to 1900. Records include account books, burgher rolls, census records, church records, citizenship records, lists of foreigners with passports, guild records, immunization records, lists of officials, military rosters, population registration, lists of potential school children, registers of foreigners, school records, tax records, and voter lists. The original records are located in the Stadtarchiv Magdeburg in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Records are in German and French.

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Record Content
These records may contain the following information:


 * Name
 * Residence
 * Birth date
 * Parents' names
 * Hometown
 * Occupation

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Related Websites

 * Germanic Genealogy Society: Saxony
 * Saxony - Germanic Genealogy Society

Related Wiki Articles

 * Germany Archives and Libraries
 * Germany Church Records
 * Germany locating civil registration records not at the Family History Library

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“Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981,” images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 28 February, 2012), La Plata &gt; San Ponciano &gt; Matrimonios 1884-1886 &gt; image 71 of 389 images, Artemio Avendano and Clemtina Peralta, 1884; citing Parroquia de San Ponciano en la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Matrimonios. San Ponciano, La Plata.