Comments on: tax records/ court rolls? http://www.nowknow.com/tax-records-court-rolls/ Now Know - Search Millions of Public Records & Resources Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: GenevievesMom http://www.nowknow.com/tax-records-court-rolls/comment-page-1/#comment-10969 GenevievesMom Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.hebraicrenewal.com/?p=2825#comment-10969 They do exist, but accessing them is going to be the difficulty...unless you take the trip to Germany and pull them from the archives yourself or hire someone to search for you...and you're looking at probably a $1500 minimum for someone to do that search for you. The civil registry is held in the Standesamt. That's not the hardest to access and, in fact, the LDS should have the records filmed already. The rest of the records will be held in the Archives of Rhineland-Palatinate (in German it's called Rheinhessen-Pfalz). Here's their website (in German) http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/darchi11.htm They do exist, but accessing them is going to be the difficulty…unless you take the trip to Germany and pull them from the archives yourself or hire someone to search for you…and you’re looking at probably a $1500 minimum for someone to do that search for you.

The civil registry is held in the Standesamt. That’s not the hardest to access and, in fact, the LDS should have the records filmed already. The rest of the records will be held in the Archives of Rhineland-Palatinate (in German it’s called Rheinhessen-Pfalz). Here’s their website (in German) http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/darchi11.htm

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