Brandenburg, Germany Genealogy

Guide to Brandenburg, Germany  ancestry, family history, and genealogy after 1945: birth records, marriage records, death records.

Historical Background

 * Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, and comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Lower Lusatia region.
 * It became part of the German Empire in 1871.
 * From 1918, Brandenburg was a province of the Free State of Prussia.
 * It was dissolved in 1945 after World War II, and replaced, with reduced territory, as the State of Brandenburg in East Germany, which was later dissolved in 1952.
 * Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, Brandenburg was re-established as a federal ‘’’state of Germany''', becoming one of the new states. Wikipedia