Therefore some of the following names and descriptions are not translated. Other archives Church registers Church registers are a principal source of genealogical data. The dates of births, marriages and deaths were entered in the church registers by the parish priests. The oldest church registers in many Franconian parishes date back to the 16th century. Unfortunately during the last centuries several of these valuable registers were destroyed by wars or other events.
Many church registers are still in the possession of the church offices of the respective parishes.
Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. The church registers of the Protestant Nuremberg parishes. Additionally, the Roman Catholic church registers of East and West Prussia including Danzig which had been outhoused during the Second World War can be found there too. These around 3,000 church registers are also presented only in the form of microfiches since about 1985. Family books and family registers The GFF has in its stock family books, family registers and local clan records for more than 200 parishes.