In southwestern Germany, genealogy usually stops at the Thirty Years' War [0]. Where I come from, the population decline during the war was more than 66% [1]. M

In southwestern Germany, genealogy usually stops at the Thirty Years' War [0]. Where I come from, the population decline during the war was more than 66% [1]. Most church records were either destroyed in battle, or used as a heat source during the winter. Very often, people just stopped keeping birth records. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Bev%C3%B6lkerkungsr%C3%BCckgang_im_HRRDN_nach_dem_Drei%C3%9Figj%C3%A4hrigen_Krieg.PNG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Bev%C3%B...