Germany Locating Parish Records

A gazetteer is a list and description of places. It is valuable tool to help find records for a locality. This site is a great resource for online German gazetteers. Genealogical gazetteers have been created for the following provinces:
 * Bavaria
 * East and West Prussia
 * Hohenzollern
 * Lippe (Detmold)
 * Lippe (Schaumburg)
 * Hessen-Darmstadt
 * Hessen-Nassau
 * Mecklenburg
 * Waldeck

Content
Each entry may contain


 * Name of town
 * Province
 * Kreis (district)
 * Protestant Parish
 * Catholic Parish
 * Civil Records Office

Internet address

 * http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/gazetteersmain.html

or search google.com for German gazetteer

Cost
Free