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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Kleinschmalkalden has belonged to the following independent countries or post-1871 German states:

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

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

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.

Kleinschmalkalden (Hesse-Nassau)
Church records begin in 1626.


 * Church records 1626-1719 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Church records 1720-1772 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Church records 1773-1854 at Archion - images, ($); includes mostly Reformed
 * Copy of church records 1811-1830 at Archion - images, ($); record kept by school teacher
 * Baptisms 1830-1872 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Copy of baptisms 1857-1872 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Baptisms 1873-1898 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Confirmations 1831-1907 at Archion - images, ($), reformed?
 * Confirmations 1860-1875 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Marriages 1830-1898 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Copy of burials 1830-1852 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Burials 1830-1885 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Burials 1853-1874 at Archion - images, ($)

Kleinschmalkalden (Saxe-Gotha)
Church records begin in 1690.


 * Church records 1690-1740 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Church records 1741-1773 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Church records 1774-1792 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Church records 1793-1810 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Church records 1809-1820 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Baptisms 1821-1850 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Baptisms 1850-1875 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Baptisms 1876-1905 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Baptisms 1906-1992 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Confirmations 1876-1934 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Marriages 1821-1866 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Marriages 1867-1876 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Marriages 1876-1927 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Marriages 1928-1989 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Burials 1821-1850 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Burials 1850-1875 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Burials 1876-1931 at Archion - images, ($)
 * Burials 1932-1992 at Archion - images, ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Kleinschmalkalden 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