Steinau Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

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

Place Names
A very good gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Steinau.

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from Compgen. For more information, see the entry for Steinau.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church Archive 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. The Lutheran and Reformed parishes merged in 1819.


 * church records 1650-1753 ($)
 * church records 1753-1811 ($)
 * church records 1812-1818 ($)

Reformed
Church records begin 1689.


 * church records 1689-1807 ($)
 * church records 1771-1815 ($)
 * church records 1816-1830 ($)
 * baptisms 1831-1858 ($)
 * baptisms 1858-1890 ($)
 * baptisms 1891-1931 ($)
 * confirmations 1831-1939 ($)
 * marriages 1831-1876 ($)
 * marriages 1877-1931 ($)
 * burials 1831-1865 ($)
 * burials 1866-1905 ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Steinau began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Family History Society for Nassau and Frankfurt Hessian Family History Association Hessian State Archives Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck