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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Willingshausen 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 Willingshausen.

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

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 being in 1712.


 * 1712-1773 Church records 1712-1773 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1773-1830 Church records 1773-1830 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1830-1963 Baptisms and confirmations 1830-1963 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1866-1937 Baptisms 1866-1937 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1830-1868 Marriages and burials 1830-1868 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1852-1907 Marriages 1852-1907 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1908-2015 Marriages 1908-2015 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1869-1938 Burials 1869-1938 at Archion – images ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Willingshausen 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