View source for Abbreviation Table for Meyers Orts und Verkehrs Lexikon Des Deutschen Reichs

=== Abbreviation Table and Glossary  ===

Localities in Germany are arranged in the FamilySearch Catalog according to the boundaries of the 1871 German Empire. For cataloging purposes the gazetteer ''Meyers Orts-und Verkehrs-Lexikon ''<nowiki>(FHL call no.: book – Ref 943. E5mo; film- 0,496,640 [Localities A-K]; and fiche – 6,000,001-6,000,029) is used. </nowiki>This is an excellent gazetteer, indicating which of the localities have parishes and which have civil registration offices. The entries of the different localities have many abbreviations. The following list is basically an abbreviation table with a few common words, which will be helpful in using the gazetteer. This list should be allowed some freedom due to interpretation and considering the time frame that these terms were used. Some words have different meanings now or are no longer used. 

Those abbreviations or words preceded by … indicate that it can also be used as the end or beginning of a combined word.