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Guide to Mottgers Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Place Names
The best gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Mottgers.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Kassel, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Archion. Archion requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

Lutheran
Church records begin in 1650.


 * church records, 1650-1661
 * church records, 1650-1764
 * church records, 1765-1772
 * church records, 1773-1817
 * church records, 1818-1830
 * baptism records, 1830-1878
 * confirmation records, 1831-1998
 * marriage records, 1831-1961
 * burial records, 1830-1944

Reformed

 * church records, 1715-1816

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Mottgers began in October 1874. Some records can be found online:
 * births, 1874-1890, Ancestry
 * deaths, 1881-1941, Ancestry

For other civil registration records, start by contacting the civil registration office in Sinntal.

Compiled Genealogies (Ortssippenbuch)
There is no known compiled genealogy for the parish of Mottgers. For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Compiled Genealogies.

Related Sources
Mottgers is now part of the Sinntal municipality. The municipality's website (in German) can be found here.

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen