Online OSBs or OFBBs

BarbaraMacgillivray

How do I get to view online pre-1850s OSBs for Lower Saxony Reformed or Protestant Parishes ?

BarbaraMacgillivray

Thank you for these clearly defined steps = hope it gets me some info on OSBs or OFBs. All of the volunteers at Family Search are great professional help. Barbara

Marie4Joy

You are very welcome. May blessings continue in all of your researching.

Marie4Joy

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page

Please utilize the Research Wiki. There are valuable resources that will direct you to find specific record sets.

The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide created and maintained by FamilySearch, a non-profit organization. It contains links to genealogy databases, websites, other resources, research strategies, and genealogical guidance to assist in the search for your ancestors. Articles included are locality pages for countries around the world and topic pages that include pertinent genealogy record types explaining how to use the record, what it contains, and how to find it. MediaWiki software is used to house this information.

Next, use the Search Catalog

The following steps will help you find records for a specific locality in the FamilySearch Catalog.

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog.
2. ("Places" is the default search option. If it does not appear, select it from the menu.)
3. Type the locality. The catalog organizes places from the largest jurisdiction in a place-name to the smallest. Generally, the pattern is country, state or province, county (where applicable), city or town.
4. As you slowly type a phrase into the Places search box, possible matches will appear in a drop-down list below it. Click on the match that best matches the locality you seek. Names of places in the Catalog are cited from largest to smallest jurisdiction, for example, United States, Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City. Keep that in mind when viewing search options. Many provinces, counties, and cities share the same name.Click Search (even if the locality was selected from the drop-down menu).
5. Click a topic, such as Church records. (See also Locality Subject Subdivisions.)
6. Click a title to see more details.

Of course, most people begin by using Search, Records features.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Historical_Record_Collections

FamilySearch Historical Records provides online access to indexes and digital images of records held by FamilySearch. The collections can be accessed at Historical Record Collections.

Colin Ramsbottom

You may also find it useful to join a Community Group for the area you are researching. You may find some very useful links and research tips there:

https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/88-germany-genealogy-research