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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.

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Mottgers began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
There is no known town genealogy for the parish of Mottgers. For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Compiled Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Hessen State Archives