This page is the beginning of an attempt to list a complete and accurate description of the major organizational resources available to the family history researcher involved in eastern German areas. Most of the material was gleaned from a collection of postings to various mailing lists by a Posen-L subscriber, Alyn Olson. Thanks, Alyn!

Table of Contents:

• Government Archives
• Church Archives
• Private Organizations with resources

Government Archives

Poland

Name	Naczelna Dyrekcia Archiwow Panstwowych
Address & other contact information	ul.Dluga 6, skrytka Pocztowa nr 1005 00-950 Warszawa Poland	Phone 31-32-06 do-08 Fax 31-75-63
Material	Civil and church records. NOTE: check the LDS catalog first, many of the records have been filmed and are much easier to obtain (and a lot less costly) by renting the film, than by sending a request to the Polish archives.
Procedure	You must first write to the main archive and they will direct you to the regional archive. This is a long, three-step process. Be prepared to spend a year, with 2-3 months between letters. Send your request to the Main Archive office in Warsaw. Be VERY SPECIFIC in your request: name, event, date and place. They will answer your query with a fee list, and they will also tell you where and how to send payment for your research. Usually they want the money in advance. Send your initial payment, following the instructions. When you get the notice that it is credited, then you send the notice to the regional branch and they will get the information that you want. The branch archive must have received confirmation of permission and of payment, before they will process a record lookup. Set a money limit, or you may be charged hundreds of dollars. The Regional Archive will send you notification of what records are available and how much the charges are. Pay the charges and you will receive the materials. Note: I assume that the material (in italics) is correct. I've made some assumptions. jab  Below is typically what you can expect to receive from the Main Archive in Warsaw: Pay by Eurocheck to: Nazelna Dyrekcja Archiwow Panstwowych (this is the title of the main Archive Pay by Visa card at your own bank, (they will give you instructions) Send payment to: (they will give you the address and the account number where they want it sent.) Fees: Preliminary fee: $30.00 (to main archive to do the looking for your request) Hourly fee: 15.00 (this is where you want to set a limit!) 1 copy of a document:15.00 fee for copying 1-2 pages 10.00 over 2 pages, each page is 5.00 Microfilm copy, per frame: 2.00 Costs to copy property documents are 4X above amounts. TIPS: In your first letter should ask if they have emigration records for the place and year THEN also ask if they have church records for that place and what years they cover. Ask, "if not, do they know where they might be?" (THIS MUST BE EXACT). Use present-day polish town names and do all possible in Polish or English. All information will come in Polish. Even if the original records are in German, they will translate them into Polish before sending them on to you. Do not send money first, they will bill you but set a limit for that search. There are many Brandenburg records (now Poland part of Brandenburg), stored in State Archives The website of Regional Archives: Regional Archives Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Gdansk (Danzig) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Olsztyn (Allenstein) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Wroclaw (Breslau) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Zielona Gora (Grunberg) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Katowice (Kattowitz) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Koszalin (Koslin) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Opole (Oppeln) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Pszczyna (Pless) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Poznan (Posen) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Pila (Schneidemuhl) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Szczecin (Stettin) Wojewwodskie Archiwum Panstowe w Torun (Thorn)
Researchers

Germany

Name	Bundesarchiv-Zentralnachweisstelle
Address & other contact information	Abteigarten 6 52076 Aachen Germany	Phone: 0049-(0) 2408-147-37
Material	Millitary dossiers from WW II Military records, not complete, write or call for information. You will need: full name, place of birth, date of birth, front served on (east or west)
Procedure
Researchers

Name	Landesarchiv Berlin
Address & other contact information	Kalckreuthstrasse 1 D-10777 Berlin Germany	Phone ++49-30-21283-0
Material	Berlin city archives, many parishes records.
Procedure
Researchers	Heidrun Linke: <linke@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Standesamt I
Rueckerstr. 9
D-10119 Berlin
Germany

Ask first for town and exact date to reduce search costs.
Don't send money first, they will bill you.
Must tell relationship to person inquiring about. Ask them and they will know where to go.
For civil records from the former germany area
Personensstardsregister for area east of Oder-Neisse line.
They have a catalogue of these records, has over 250 town civil registers.
Contains some Silesian Civil Records
Records for Kolmar-Stadt (1874-1943)
List of available Pommerania civil registers
Koeslin civil records index
Koenigsberg to 1903
Gross Friedrichsdorf (Gastellovo)
Heinrickswalde (Slavsk)
Kreis Koenigsberg (1874-1930)
Kreis Niederung (1874-1943) no marriages, death index only (1874-1929)

(German Federal Archives, Military Branch)

Bundesarchiv, Abt.VI Militararchiv
Wiesentalstr.10
79115 Freiburg
Germany
(or)
Postfach
D 79024 Freiburg
Germany
Phone: 0761-47817-0
Fax: 0761-47817-81

Staatsarchiv Hamburg
ABC-Strasse 19, Eingang A
D20354 Hamburg
Germany

United States

Church Archives

Poland

Contains Pleszew to 1855, then civil registration starts in 1876.

The Polish Catholic Dioceses have this website.

Germany

Evangelisches Zentralarchiv
Jebenstrasse 3
D 10623 Berlin
Germany
FAX: +30-310-01400
E-mail: EZA@compuserve.com

Archive for evangelical (protestant) churches from former Germany area
(Almost all records at this archive have been microfilmed by the LDS.)
Specify town and exact date to reduce costs.
Cost: 12 DM for 15 min search
Indexes to Berlin city church registers prior to 1875 NOT filmed by the LDS
Also some records after 1874.
Brandenburg records.
This website has a list of the parish registers in this archive

Evangelical Zentralarchiv
Leipzig
Germany
Has Brandenburg records from that part of Prussia

Pommersche Evangelische Kirche
Landeskirchlices Archiv
Greifswald

will forward requests to the correct place
Pommern church books, garrison records for Naugard, Stettin and Swinemunde
Mainly records of Kreis Naugard (not filmed by the LDS).
Wolgast marraige records from 1534. Births, marriages, burials, about 1570/80,
Other parishes from 1600's & 1700's
also contains: "Allgemeines Landrecht" from 1794, Amtsgerichte = records
with duplicates
Standesaemter from 1-10-1874 to 1945
G. Steub's website has some info.

Landeskirche
Lippisches Landeskirchenamt Archive
Leopoldstr. 27
32756 Detmold
Germany
FAX 05231-976-850

Contains Wellentrop, Lippe, Detmold, Augustdorf, Lippe, Detmold
(Not recorded by LDS.)

Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel
Lessingstrasse 15A
3119 Kassel,
Germany
Email: EKKW.ARCHIV@t-online.de
Website: www.ekkw.de/archiv

They will tell you if they find anything, how much it will cost for you to get a copy and how to pay them for it. If they don't have it, they will tell you. They will also tell you where to look next if they know.

Here are 4 that were in the email:

Frau Elisabeth Reiferstein
Brownschweiger Str. 35A
38315 Hamburg

Herr Herbert Ahlgromm
Startgardstr. 19
38124 Braunschweig

Herr Jens Th. Kaufmann
An der Buhle 7A
30938 Burgwedel

Herr Burkhart Nothdunft
Robert-Koch-Str. 32
30853 Langenhagen

Contact them for their fee schedule.

United States

Organizations with resources

Poland

Germany

Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Archivstrasse 12-14
D-14195 Berlin
Phone: 0049-30-83901-00
FAX: 0049-30-83901-00

Berlin City records
Catholic Military Churchbooks, (Garrison) for 1846- 1911 for Wahlstatt Archives of the former German state of "Pruessen". Contains church military registers for east of the Oder-Neisse Line, all filmed by LDS
Prussian Nobility 1293-1902
Prussian Army records prior to 1867
Contains records of the government of Marienwerder (West Prussia) and Bromberg government (Posen) and the State Archive at Konigsberg (East Prussia).

Deutsche Zentralstelle Fuer Genealogie Leipzig
Schongauer Str. 1
04329 Leipzig
Germany

Poznan records filmed by LDS
Some Brandenburg records from this part of Prussia
Collection of genealogies, (see Book by Radtke, et al )
Pommeranian Parish Registers has a new recent list.

International Suchdienst
Grosse Allee 5-9
34444 Arolsen
Germany

Deals ONLY with non-germans and Germans in Nazi concentration camps.

Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)
Aukunfttsstelle fuer Wehrmachtsanghoerige
Eichborndamm 179
D13403 Berlin
(or)
Postfach 510657
D13400 Berlin
Phone: 30- 419-04-139
FAX : 30-419-04-100
Website: <http://www.com-de.pair.com/wast/>
Missing persons from WW I and WW ll.
For military records. Write or call to see what they have.
Need: full name, Place of birth, Date of birth, Front served on, (East or West)
May have a record of every soldier ever fought in WW I or WW II.

Berlin Document Center
Wasserkaefigsteig 1
14163 Berlin
Germany

for military unit records
Need: full name, place and date of birth, front served on (east or west)

Deutsches Adelsarchiv
Schwanallee 21
D35037 Marburg
Germany
For research with names that start with "von" (nobility).

Heimatortskartai Nordosteuropa
Vorwerke Strasse 103
D-23554 Lubeck
Germany
has a cardfile of refugee families who fled Pommern and other areas since
start of WW I I and where they relocated to. This Agency will try to put
you in touch with their descendants. Send as complete information as
possible and they will send costs. Filed by Kreise of residence, not name.
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Heimatauskunftstellen fuer Ost & West Pressia, Danzig, Pommern, Mecklenburg and Posen.
Meesenring 9
23566 Lubeck
Have 9 different regional offices in one large building with an office for each regional
area: Pommern, West Prussia, East Prussia, etc.
Filed by Kreise of Residence, not name.

United States

AGLL (membership loan program for Genealogical Services.)
P.O. Box 329
593 W. 100 North
Bountiful, Utah 84011-0329
USA
(Write to them for the films they have available.)

Phone l - 800 - 760 - AGLL
Website: <http://www.agll.com> or <http://www.xmission.com/~agll/>

Texas Seaport Museum
2016 Strand
Galveston, Texas 77550

Has Port of Galveston Immigration Database. Will search for $10 per surname, all by mail.

Israel

Central Archives for History of the Jewish People
Givat Ram Campus
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel

Jewish records from all over the world
Jewish Gen website

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Hans Hartmut Schuessler
Family Researcher
Family Archive Schuessler
Sudetenstrasse 22
D 65239 Hochheim
Germany
(from an email that I received this past week, I asked him if he did
research for others and have not as yet, had an answer.)
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