Free online digital images of Baden-Württemberg Church Books

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The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/C5JOJOF7I7YMKXUUI6AGUJJDGTK6P454 is a portal for digital images of original church books up to 1870 provided through the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg. It is free, images can be downloaded and reused under Creative Commons License CC-BY.

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I don't see how to download the images. Please advise.

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You have to find the book you are looking for using the tree on the page given, then click on the URL next to "Digitalisat im Angebot des Archivs". That brings you to the actual book. After you have found the page you want to download click "Druck/Download" above the image, a small window will pop up giving you the option "Drucken" which will print the image, and "Bilddatei herunterladen" which will download the image.

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Helmut, Thanks, again! An extremely helpful thought.

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Answer 1

Thanks for the resource! For those who don't speak German, the pages are also available in English—just click on "Deutsch" in the upper righthand corner and change to English. Also, a list of all the available locations and the volumes available for each is at https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=12390&klassi=013.00089.%&anzeigeKlassi=001 (Deutsch only). To see a particular volume (Band), click on "Archivalieneinheit einsehen" and then click on an image (Bild). From there you can page through the whole volume. To print or download an image, click "Druck / Download" in the menu bar near the top. The PDF version includes all the citation information and a lot of white space. If you click "Bilddatei herunterladen," you'll get just the image with the citation in JPG format. Play around with the different settings—most are obvious or at least intuitive, and you can't hurt anything.

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Thanks for this resource. Too bad I don't have ancestors in Baden-Württemberg in the 19th century!

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oooo... i do. i'm off to see what's there...

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I don't know how I missed this link previously. I have two lines of ancestors from this area: Dußler & Kesselring. Thanks for posting. :)

Posted to Kitty's Library page:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Kitty%27s_Library 15 July 2016. JPVIV

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Thank you, Helmut.  This is very exciting.  I have Schlenker ancestors, from this area.  My wife has Schwarz and Bock ancestors from Winzeln and Waldmossingen.  Hopefully I'll be able to track things down.

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Thanks Helmut for this source.

I know a lot of archives where to download records for the genealogy in Germany, but this one I didn't know.

Very good research source.

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For your awareness: those are actually the church book duplicates that the priests had to create as civil records after Napoleons reforms and before independent civil records (see German GenWiki page for details), which is important to keep in mind, because they might differ from the originals. For example they had to be handed in, quite soon after creation, so they might lack later additions like notes about recognition, marriage or death. I've also seen at least one case where the duplicate only mentions the witnesses to a baptism, while the orignals only mention the godparents.

A part of the books is situated in Staatsarchiv Freiburg (search link) while the rest is in Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (search link).

I've created a bookmarklet (browser bookmark containing javascript code that is executed when you open the bookmark) which creates automatic source citations from these books. You can get it at https://github.com/FlominatorTM/WikiTree (feel free to ask how to use it)

Update: these books are also limited to one confession and are one per town/village, not per parish.

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Is this different than the images posted at Ancestry? When I  looked at the books posted I didn't see the towns/churches listed that I  need.

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Depends on what you're referring to. Do you have a link?

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What do you mean by "one confession"?  Only protestant or only catholic?  Just one church per village?   Or just that because each book is from the particular church (lutheran, catholic), you have to search the lutheran book and the catholic book, both?

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Hi Patricia, what I meant is that there is at least one book per village/town, but usually one per confession. I also saw things like only one catholic book but the priest also performing the record for his protestant colleague in it. I wanted to underline that these are not 100% identical copies of the church books per parish.