ALFHAUSEN, GENEALOGY, St. JOHANN CHURCH,  RECORDS.

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Cause.
Due to the fact that many of my ancestors were born in Alfhausen and surrounding,
I wanted to have a copy of the BMD-books at home, to avoid travelling so much.
(BMD= Baptism-, Marriage- and Death records-books).
Alfhausen lies about 100 miles from my house in the Netherlands.
I wanted these copies in the form of scans with of course a good and clear
alphabetical register of names.
After some time I got scanned all these registration records, with of course
the approval of the parish priest.
(The church also disposes of my three books and the DVD).
Totaly I made 6530 scans and "burned" them on a DVD.
For the genealogist, this is of course a very interesting and help for their genealogical research,
they can order the DVD by an e-mail. Price will be found at the bottom of this page.
On my web-site you will find all the surnames of all the persons who were born/baptised,
or married or died from the beginning through 1903,(the deaths till 1927), in Alfhausen.
All these names have a date or scannumber which refer to the scans where you 
will find the concerning record.

Something about the archives of the R.C. Parisch Church, St. Johann in Alfhausen.
Alfhausen is located about 20 miles north of Osnabrück in the state of Niedersachsen.
The catholic church St. Johann  contains not only the little place Alfhausen but also the
hamlets Thiene, Wallen and Heeke.
Alfhausen was a very catholic community, more than 95 % of the population was catholic.
In 1800 the parish had a population of about 2030 inhabitants, of which 2000 belonged 
to the catholic church.
The BMD-books, which rest at the archives of the church, contain the whole period from
the beginning till now.
In 1679 the parish priests begun to record the births/baptism, and 10 years
later, in 1689, they also begun to registrate the marriages and deaths.
In the first 10 years we see a lot of gaps in the registration of the baptisms.
The BMD-books are in a reasonable good state.
In general the writing is very good to read, but sometimes it is bad, or the ink
has spotted over the paper, or the edge of the page is crumbled etc. 

Year           Not registrated periode           Number of months

1679          15-01-1679  tot  31-12-1679             11,5
1680          01-01-1680  tot  01-10-1680             11
1680          26-10-1680  tot  31-12-1680
1681          01-01-1681  tot  31-12-1681             12
1682
1683
1684
1685
1686           01-01-1686  tot  31-12-1686            12
1687           10-02-1687  tot  31-12-1687            10,5
1688           01-01-1688  tot  23-10-1688            10
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On the occasion of the 1000 year existance of Alfhausen in 1977
a book has been published titled: 
"1000 Jahre Alfhausen 977 - 1977".
Next parish priests are called to the Alfhausen church:

Johannes Kerstiens               - 1689
Matthias Grawert            1689 - 1724
Andreas Wilhelm Hellmann    1724 - 1740
Albert Bernard Niehuis      1740 - 1779
Johan Anton Mähler          1779 - 1806
Dr. Joseph Mähler           1806 - 1857
Johan Henrich Anton Klasen  1857 - 1871
Gerhard Schoo               1872 - 1894
Ferdinand Uhlenhake         1894 - 1911
Johann Heinrich Dinklage    1911 - 1917
Hermann Johann Ratermann    1917 - 1927

What may you expect in this web-site?
In this web-site you will find all the surnames with data of all the persons
the parish priests recorded through the years in relation with births, marriages and deaths.
To these long (alphabetical) lists belong a DVD. This DVD contains all the scans 
of all the records the priests wrote.
As mentioned earlier, 6530 scans are made with a resolution of 150 dpi.
These scans, in fact digitalized photographs, give you a view in the BMD-books
of the church.
Another advantage is that that you can make also a print at home of a scan to get a 
copy of a record of your relatives in the very past.
(The parish of Alfhausen will have no longer "secrets" for the genealogists.)
This DVD are for sale.(see end of this page).

How does it work?
When you activate one of the four hyperlinks in the framework of  Periode I, see below,  
of Baptism, or Men-Marrige, or Women-Marriage, or Deaths, 
for instance BAPTISM  (1679 - 1811), an alphabetical list of names will appear 
of the baptisms on your monitor.
These list starts with:

    Name               |Birth/Baptism|
------------------------|----------|
AHLBRINCK               |17-06-1696|
AHLERS                  |03-02-1697|
AHLERS                  |14-04-1697|
AHLHAUSEN               |03-08-1787|
AHLHAUSEN               |04-03-1790|
ALBERDING               |19-10-1727|
ALBERDING               |19-03-1774|
ALBERDING               |09-12-1786|
ALBERDING               |09-01-1765|
    etc.                   etc.

Now it is rather simple to find the belonging scan  to the birth/baptize of for instance:

ALBERDING               |19-03-1774|

on the DVD.
Go to the scan  where you read 1774, then to the spot you read 19 March.
It turne out that scannumber 321 bap 1773.jpg (on the bottom left of the page),
is the right one, you read:
19  Anna Maria et Maria Gertrudt gemina et filia Henrich Alberding et
Margaretha Meijers conj. lev: Anna Maria Gohman et Maria Gertrud
Holtgrefe gd Bohman.

In the same way you will find the scans belonging  to marriages or deaths.

By activating  WOMEN-MARRIAGE, a list will appear of the marriages 
of the women in alphabetical order.
These list starts with:

        Women         |       Men            | Marriage |
----------------------+----------------------+----------+
AHLBERDING            |URSZELMAN             |15-04-1725|
AHLERS                |CRUSE                 |22-08-1740|
ALBECKERS             |FELDTKAMPF            |28-01-1737|
ALBERDING             |BLANCKEFORT           |18-01-1744|
ALBERDING             |NIEMAN                |24-07-1730|
ALBERDING             |HOLDGREFE             |00-06-1750|
ALBERDING             |LOCKENBERG            |24-11-1789|
ALBERDING             |CRUSE                 |22-08-1808|
ALBERDING             |SCHMIDGÖSLING         |23-11-1791|

Now it is rather simple to find the belonging scan to the marriage of for instance:

ALBERDING (Woman)     |LOCKENBERG (man)      |24-11-1789|

on the DVD. It turne out that scannumber 104marr1789.jpg  is the right one,
you read:

eodum (24) 9bris:Gerd Henrich Lockenberg et Anna Maria Adelheid Alberding,
Testes sunt custos Battsche et .....

In the list  MEN-MARRIAGE the names of the men are alphabetical ordered,
In the list  WOMEN-MARRIAGE the names of the women are alphabetical ordered. 

(Some files, like BAPTISM 1679-1811, are rather great, so that it takes some time before the files appear on your monitor!)

              Periode: I

How do the files look on the DVD of the first  PERIODE I ?
 

By clicking and press "Enter" a file in the framework a scan will appear of the record you are looking for.

 

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        Periode: II

To find a scan of a record (of the second periode II)  it goes in the same
way as in the first periode I.
When a hyperlink in PERIODE II is activated, for instance, BAPTISM (1812-1903),
 an alphabetical list will appear of the baptisms.

This list starts with :

          Name          |                   Scannumber
------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------|
Alberding               |260,285,296,321,336,350,389,418,437,438,462,494,528,                |
   ,,                   |548,615,673,755,871,948,974,997,1027,1041,1055,1059,                |
   ,,                   |1078,1081,1097,1107,1114,1135,1139,1165,1195,1225,1292,             |
   ,,                   |1322,1338,1349,1368,                                                |
Albers                  |1191,1203*,1220,1228,1234,1297,1308,1332,                           |
Albert-Kempe            |879,1062,1151,1164,1210,1265,                                       |

If you want to see  the scan of a birth record of Alberding, for instance 
about 1850, it turne out that scannumber 755, (bap0755.jpg),
is the right one,you read:

Geburt   Taufe
     3          4       ALBERDING-Hermann Wilhelm Sohn des Colon
                          Johann Henrich Alberding und der Bernardina 
  April 1852       Langenkamp aus Wallen.
                          Lev: Hermann Henrich Dressmann
                          Wilhelm Geers Walle
                         Maria Gerdrut Hilsheim geboren Tecklenborg

To find a scan of a record of a marriage or death,  it goes exactly in the 
same way.

How does the files look out on the DVD of the second periode II?

Totally I made 6530 scans in the two periods

The meaning of some symbols you will meet in the list of the second periode II.

*        emigrated to America
         (the meaning of a, b, c and d in the numbers, see "READ ME FIRST".)
#:      Died after 1903 (till mid 1926).
+       Died in First World War  as a soldier.
!        A rectivication written in the original record.

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The next page shows a list with names of emigrants who left Alfhausen for mainly America.
This list is only based on the remarks the parish priests wrote afterwards in the birth records
and does not necessarily to be complete.