Almdorf Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Danish: Almtorp

Guide to Almdorf Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Place Names
A great gazetteer to begin with is Meyer's Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Almdorf.

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from CompGen. For more information, see the entry for Almdorf. Also see the German GenWiki.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein are held at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Archive of Northern Germany in Kiel, Germany.

Almdorf belonged to the Protestant parish of Breklum. The following website(s) have digitized church records for the parish of Breklum: More recent records may be restricted.
 * Archion, which requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no digital indexes to the records on Archion.
 * FamilySearch, which contains a mixture of indexed and non-indexed records.

Civil Registration
Almdorf belonged to the civil registration office of Breklum. Civil registration for Breklum began on 1 October 1874.

For Breklum civil registration records, start by contacting the Mittleres Nordfriesland civil registration office in Bredstedt.

Census Records
Denmark conducted several censuses in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. For more information about these censuses, see the articles Denmark Census and Schleswig-Holstein Census.

The following censuses were taken for Almdorf:
 * 1803
 * 1835
 * 1840
 * 1845
 * 1855
 * 1860

The following website(s) have digitized census records for the parish of Breklum:
 * Danish Family Search
 * FamilySearch
 * MyHeritage

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
There is no known town genealogy for the parish of Breklum. For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet.

Related Sources
Breklum is now part of the collective municipality of Mittleres Nordfriesland. The municipality's website (in German) can be found here.

Societies and Libraries
For a list of Schleswig-Holstein archives, see Schleswig-Holstein Archives and Libraries.

For a list of Schleswig-Holstein societies, see Schleswig-Holstein Societies.