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Church records are a valuable resource when researching East Prussian ancestors. The East Prussian church records have been preserved as either originals or as copies. The following archives and libraries have Microfilms of the original records. I have started to put together a list of the parishes that I am researching and the church records that are preserved at the archives and libraries listed below.

Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
35 North West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
84150-3400
USA
URL: http://www.familysearch.org/

Largest library of its kind in the world
Main library is located in Salt Lake City
Numerous branches of Family History Centers operate around the world

Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin
Bethaniendamm 29
D-10997 Berlin
Germany
URL: http://www.ezab.de/

About 7000 Parish Registers from Protestant parishes which belonged to the former eastern provinces of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union

State Archives of Saxony in Leipzig
German Central Office for Genealogy
Schongauerstraße 1
D-04321 Leipzig
Germany
URL: http://www.sachsen.de/de/bf/verwaltung/archivverwaltung/v2/themenportal/3633.htm

The central office controls the microfilms created in 1934, of German church books written from their beginnings to 1874
The provinces of East and West Prussia are contained in these films

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Archives / Libraries