From German Girls Genealogy (Teresa Steinkamp McMillin & Debra A. Hoffman):
The northern part of the historic Rhineland area is in today’s North-Rhine Westphalia.
To read more about the histories of these specific regions, see my prior blog post: https://lindstreet.blog/2020/05/21/german-states-and-provinces-as-of-1912-and-their-current-locations/.
The great part about this area is that portions were under French control in the late 1700s. So many of these areas have civil registration documents beginning in 1798. This is in addition to church records.
Records for this area are at the Rhineland branch of the North-Rhine Westphalia state archives (NRW) in Duisburg. This branch has been busy digitizing its civil records. Deaths spanning 1874–1938 and marriages spanning 1874–1899 are included. These records have been digitized with the help of FamilySearch and the images are on the archive’s website: https://www.archive.nrw.de/landesarchiv-nrw/geschichte-erfahren/familienforschung/familienforschung-digital.
MyHeritage has indexed these records. The deaths may be found here https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10864/germany-north-rhine-westphalia-deaths-1874-1938. The marriages may be found here: https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20726/germany-north-rhine-westphalia-marriages-1874-1899
Many other church and civil records have been digitized. They are also available at the NRW-Rheinland branch. Visit their website here: https://www.archive.nrw.de/archivsuche. From this page, on the left choose Archiv = “LandesarchivNRW Abteilung Rheinland” and also check the box “nur mit Digitalisat” [only with digitization].
Once the many results appear on the right, look on the left side. At the bottom left under “Alle,” click “Landesarchiv NRW Abteilung Rheinland.” The information below will expand. Click on “6. Personenstandarchiv Rheinland (10991).” Item 6.1 has church books. Item 6.2 has civil registration records for the area. At any time, you may enter a town name in the search field near the top. That will show you results for a specific village.
To Read more about available records in this general region, read the FamilySearch Wiki here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Rhineland_(Rheinland),_German_Empire_Civil_Registration
I will add more information about the Rhineland-Palatinate in a later post, which includes the southern part of the historic Rhineland area.
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