This expanding collection is comprised of mortgages, specific properties and their owners, and various other elements required for the transfer of land within the city to its various owners. In some cases, files on inheritance (Erben) can fill in gaps in family trees and suspected relatives because they tend to list all children with inheritance […]

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These books document the history of Belgard from the middle of the 1700s. In terms of land records, these are some of the earliest I’ve seen that show owners dating back this far. Those familiar with the surviving church books from Belgard Stadt will be happy to see a continuation of names, possibly going one […]

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This is the first volume of the Grundbücher for Parsow in Kreis Köslin. Because the church books for Körlin, to which Parsow belonged, no longer exist except in fragmentary form, this book is a valuable resource to understanding who the early landowners were in the village. Grundbuch von dem Parsow Band I Blatt Nr. 1 […]

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While researching a clue to my family’s history, I stumbled upon a book that included names from Nelep and ordered it from the Koszalin Archives. Little did I know that the books in this series contain the names of all of the owners from the Grundbücher, including those that have been lost. Although little detail […]

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These land records cover the early owners in Schwemmin, Kreis Köslin. At least one other volume exists, but has not yet been digitized. Grundbuch von Schwemmin Band I Blatt Nr. 1 – 17 Schwemmin belonged to the Parsow Standesamt, but the Alt Marrin church parish. The Parsow Standesamt appears to have survived intact while the […]

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These are the first four volumes of the Arnhausen land registers. Early church records are fragmentary between 1824 and 1848. Earlier records are difficult to read and appear to only exist as microfilm copies from 1616 to 1759 and are of poor quality; those can be found on Ancestry.com under the Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, […]

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