Gifkendorf Germany
I recently found immigration doc that indicates my Helms family were from the village of Gilkendorf Germany. There is the little town of Vastorf right next to it that has the Nikolaus Zepelle church that was a Lutheran church. I have been unable to find any records to verify that’s where they lived or the records for that church. Does anyone know where I should look?
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The Protestant Parish for Gifkendorf (https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10570067) was in Reinstorf (https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20574006), according to Meyers Gazetteer. The church books for Reinstorf are not (yet) available on the web portal Archion.de which is the central resource for protestant church records in Germany. Church books from Reinstorf up to the year 1875 are available and can be viewed as microfilms at the Society for Genealogy in Niedersachsen (https://www.familienkunde-niedersachsen.de/en/) but requires a visit at their library in Hanover.
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Thank you so much for your information. We plan on going to Germany from US in early summer. I will try to educate myself on how to see those records. Once again thank you
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