This week, I am continuing my series of comparing the collections at the 3 main subscription sites, FindMyPast, Ancestry and MyHeritage. This week I am looking at Census and Voter lists from Germany.
Has no collections from Germany
My Heritage
1900 Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census
Includes Images
1,249,368 records
1867 Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census
Includes Images
218,915 records
1890 Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census
IMAGES
123,784
Germany, Westfalen, Minden Citizen Lists, 1574-1902
IMAGES
22,580
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, Census, 1900 (in German)
1,229,016
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, Census, 1867 (in German)
615,410
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, Census, 1819 (in German)
406,887
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, Census, 1919 (in German)
676,969
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, Census, 1890 (in German)
173,645
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1845 (in German)
40,806
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1880 (in German)
61,231
Germany, Westfalen, Minden Citizen Lists, 1574-1902 (in German)
58,932
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1851 (in German)
41,819
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1857 (in German)
44,432
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1875 (in German)
51,857
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1862 (in German)
45,895
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1871 (in German)
51,809
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1807 (in German)
5,386
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1831 (in German)
6,407
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1812 (in German)
5,624
Lübeck, Germany, Census, 1815 (in German)
7,075
I have found that the collections at MyHeritage are often found on free sites, so I checked FamilySearch
Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1867
Includes images
519,566 records
Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1890
Includes images
126,84715 records
Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1900
Includes images
1,249,431 records
The only collection on MyHeritage that I couldn’t find under the Census & Lists category on FamilySearch was
Germany, Westfalen, Minden Citizen Lists, 1574-1902
However, I found a mention of this collection at FamilySearch on the Legacy Family Tree News blog – http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2013/01/familysearch-records-update-2-million-new-records-from-czech-republic-germany-peru-and-united-states.html
Since the collection used to be on FamilySearch, I scrolled through the list of collections for Germany and found the collection:
Germany, Prussia, Westphalia, Minden, Miscellaneous Collections from the Municipal Archives, 1574-1912
The description of the collection is “Population registration, citizen rolls, and census records for the city of Minden. Original records are located in the Kommunalarchiv in Minden”.
This collection includes images, and has 58,932 records
Background of featured image is a photo from Unsplash – https://unsplash.com/search/germany?photo=sdP1KLKR6oE Photo by Svenja Münster
