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While browsing through a church book, you notice that a page is missing, the date range is incorrect, or the contents do not match the book's title.For situations like these, you can use the feedback feature directly in the Archion Viewer. It allows you to report any issues quickly and easily – while helping us improve Archion for everyone researching their family history.

With the Nuremberg church record indexes, ARCHION is expanding its collection to include an important genealogical research tool. The indexes cover the period from 1547 to 1875 and allow convenient research across multiple parishes in Nuremberg’s city centre.

For more than ten years, Archion has been growing continuously: digitized church books are imported and made available online for research. Now, a new milestone has been reached: 200,000 church books are now available online at Archion. 200,000 church books with over 30 million images is an impressive number. But there is more behind it: every available church book can reveal new traces of your…

As of now, ARCHION offers a new possibility to read and use church records for research even more conveniently: By means of AI-based text recognition, handwritten entries are transformed into easily readable text and made available in the viewer along with the original image. Thus, researchers interested in genealogy and history profit from faster and even easier access to valuable sources. By…

Archion has extended its range: As of now, the church records from the State Archive Bremen are available online. Therefore, church book inventories from all 16 federal states are now present on Archion – one more step towards a central platform for source-based family research.

We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with the City Archive of Blieskastel! As part of this partnership, the church registers preserved in the archive will gradually be made available on Archion.