Cardex cards    Military postal letters

This is an overview of the basis of the work of the Kirchlicher Suchdienst, which has been compiled in the course of 60 years and is used in the Suchdienst tasks. Please refer to our glossary for the explanation of supplementary terms.



Cardex systems
for more than 20 million persons in the following structures:

• Local cardex system
• Name cardex
• Street cardex
• WASt cardex
• Homecomers cardex (HK)
• Denmark cardex
• Berlin cardex
• Note cards on EWZ documents
• P.O.W. post

• Community church registers (GSL)
• Community missing lists (GVL)
• Embassy questionnaires
• Recording forms
• Registration slips
• Kirchlicher Suchdienst forms
• Denmark camp lists

• Local directories
• Street directories
• Inhabitant directories
• Community directories
• Telephone directories
• Reich address books
• Goods address books
• Business directories
• Periodicals
• City maps and maps

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