Provenience of microfilms and microfiches from East Prussia
Hello! In the catalog of the FamilySearch Library, I have recently discovered some interesting baptism records from East Prussia (Germany): there are series of baptism-books ("Kirchenbuch" in German) accessible that originate from the 18th century to the 20th century and have been photographed sometime in the 30-ties in Germany. According to the catalog, the FamilySearch Library possesses a series of black and white microfilms of these books (accessible online) and parallel series of microfiches (available in the reading room of the Library in SLC), here it is where I found it:
I would appreciate very much, if I could contact specialists from the FamilieSearch Library, who could provide me with more detailed information about the origin of these microfilms and microfiches. I guess this should be a historian or a specialist on the bibliography. I would like to discuss this question with someone competent.
Let me explain the nature of my interest: my Name is Vaidas, I am a researcher from Europe and the main field of my research is the East Prussian literary history, especially the life and work of an important writer (who was also a priest) Christian Donalitius (1714-1780). Among the baptism records mentioned above are many written by Donalitius personally: being the priest, he baptized hundreds of children in his time and these particular records constitute the main object of my recent research. But there is no information about how and when these films and microfiches happen to come to Salt Lake City, which is the reason why I decided to contact the library with my question. I would appreciate very much a contact to a competent person for this kind of information.
If you would like to know more about my academic activities and the research on Donalitius, contact me.
Regards
Vaidas
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Since this is more a cataloging question instead of a German research question, you might want to post the question in one of the FamilySearch Help categories (maybe "Search"). https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/familysearch-help
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why so cumbersome with a post in the unfortunately wrong area?
right top
Quick Links and click on Contact Us
then select the Local support
in this case Europe
and you will get a suitable mail address and even the possibility to speak with a FamilySearch representative
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