Re: Request: web sites of German churches

hannover-l
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Dear Ron,

thank you for your request and your New Year's greetings.

This is quite a lot what you are searching for! Please understand that I cannot give you every single address you requested. I answered the last e-mail because I'm living next to the village of Gro�burgwedel.

But I can give you some hints where to find the other congregations. I think you are searching in Ostfriesland (Jever is the place I know). You have to know that evangelic churches are organized in so called "Landeskirchen" followed by "Kreiskirchen" (counties), then "Sprengel" and at last the congregations itself.

Catholic churches are organized in the same way with other names. (bishoprics, dioceses, etc.)

A map of all evangelic "Landekirchen" you find here: http://www.ekd.de/english/churchmap.html

The church of Oldenburg (Jever) here: http://www.ev-kirche-oldenburg.com/

Jever is here:
www.ev-kirche-oldenburg.com/kirche_struktur/themen/gemeinden_kreise/gemeinden_a_z/ijklm.htm

For chatholic churches start here: http://www.katholisch.de/197.htm

So you have to break down from the main web page to several following web pages. If you can't find a congregation you are also able to ask the ""Landes- or Kreiskirche" for addresses. Else you have google. Try following words:

"Kirchengemeinde" or "Pfarramt" or "Pfarrb�ro"

With a little luck you also find homepages of some congregations.

I hope this helps a little bit.

Kindly regards from Langenhagen, Germany,

Bj�rn

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Ron,
      I'd like to make a suggestion before you write all those letters!
There are LDS films for nearly all of the places you listed, except for
Friedeburg, Lopsum (very tiny town) and Mannsfeldt (I don't find anywhere
-wrong spelling?). Abickhafe is so small - it probably is included with
Reepsholt. The records are somewhat incomplete, but may be worth your while
to look at. The only Meldorf I find in the index of my German atlas is in
Schleswig-Holstein. I don't find a listing for Wiesede in the LDS films, but
Wiesdermoor may be the one.

     You can check these out on the LDS site - go to Place:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

     Eibenhausen is just north of Friedeburg - very small town.
Nöttens is a tiny town southwest of Wittmund. I found those two towns on
Mapquest.com and then I could see them on my map. There is no listing for
Ismus--but in the same area southwest of Wittmund my map show a Groß Isums
(different spelling than you have) - also a very small town.

Have fun,
Barbara