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Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg

Hessian civil registers since 1874

co:op: Technology meets scholarship, or how handwritten text

recognition will revolutionize access to archival collections Marburg, January 20th, 2016

Dr. Katrin Marx-Jaskulski

Hessisches Landesarchiv – Personenstandsarchiv

Leipziger Straße 83, 35279 Neustadt (Hessen)

[email protected]

Tel.: 06692/20388-10

Hessisches Landesarchiv

mailto:[email protected]

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Wurzeln?Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg

Established in Prussia in 1874, in the German Empire in 1876:

Public civil registration offices – the registration of births,

marriages and deaths depended no longer on religious

denomination

Main registers and their contemporary copies, the latter archived

in the Hessian Archives for civil registers (Personenstandsarchiv)

since 2009

Accessible after these time periods have passed:

Birth registers: 110 years Marriage registers: 80 years Death registers: 30 years

Introduction

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- 130.000 duplicate copies of the registers (Standesamtsnebenregister) in ca. 1.500 shelf meters

- from each civil registry office in Hesse (current, not historical

borders)

- main registers (Hauptregister) and additional files

(Sammelakten) are archived in the communities

Amount

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Wurzeln?Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg Importance

Contain main personal data:

birth register marriage register death register

name, age, occupation, residence of the person reporting the vital event (births: father or midwife; marriage: bride and groom; deaths: other family members, physician,…)

place, date, time of birth place, date, time of death

child’s name, sex

name, religion, age, occupation, residence of the engaged couple

name, religion, age, occupation, residence of the decedent

name of marital partner, or note that the decedent had been single

name, occupation, residence of the parents (marriage and death registers: except 1920-1938, death register: except 1958 up to now)

name, age, occupation, residence of the witnesses to a marriage

1938-1958: cause of death

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- hardback books / brochures in smaller municipalities, one for each year; the smaller ones have sometimes been bound together in one book (for conservational reasons)

and cover a number of years

- classified in the archives along civil registry office in alphabetical order / type of register / year

Physical appearance

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Wurzeln?Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg Layout

Printed form,

handwritten

entries:

StAM Best. 923 Nr. 31 (Marriage register Abterode 1875)

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Marginal notes:

- change an entry (divorce, death of marital partner,…)

StAM Best. 915 Nr. 5460 (Marriage register Lohra 1929)

StAM Best. 903 Nr. 843 (Marriage register Höchst a.M. 1889)

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Marginal notes:

complete an entry (e.g. forename given after a birth has been announced)

StAM Best. 920 Nr. 2583 (Birth register Gudensberg 1876)

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Marginal notes:

- Hinweise (hints): point to entries in other registers (e.g. note of death in birth entry)

StAM Best. 920 Nr. 4939 (Birth register Metze 1883)

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… pasted in:

StAM Best. 925 Nr. 2520

(Marriage register Wiesbaden 1919)

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Alphabetical

index (StAM Best. 903 Nr. 779, Death

register Griesheim 1930)

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Researching the registers via Arcinsys

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Civil registry offices

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Metadata of each register

shelf mark

civil registry office

type of register (birth, marriage, death) year(s)

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Digital copies, captured by FamilySearch, 2011-2014

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Digital copies

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