Digital Archives
Search for digitized records and archive inventories at www.archivportal-d.de. Access to over 5 million records from more than 25 participating archives. Comprehensive free research in archives in Germany. Online finding aids. For example enter the search term "Geburtsbrief" in the title, then mark the box "Nur objekte mit Digitalisation". This will show you several samples of this record type.
http://sehum.selfhost.eu/22/ofb3k21552.html Mack Family
Western Europe Vital Records Index for Baden. [This site lists parish records from Baden that have been indexed on FamilySearch [These parishes are in addition to the records indexed on the IGI index]. Each parish that has been indexed is listed with a link to the catalog entry showing the film number that has been indexed.
Forum for Bad Ortenau: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEU-BAD-ORTENAU
Names from sources in the Ortenau: Mortenau.de
Places in the Black Forest Genealogy