• Audio* description: Marking of the rollers: Börnstein Bismar[c]k Arch. or Börnstein Südsee. In the original documentation only 108 rolls are mentioned. Another numbering counts until 190 (see postcard to Hornbostel from 1914: 6 Tins - 108 Walzen - 190 Phonogramme). There are many cross-references under the numbers. Correspondence available. Many of the rollers are transcribed by Hübner and Schneider. For collectors and collection see also Niles 2001. The open questions could not be clarified so far.

Since the registry office responsible for special cases in Germany and abroad - the so-called 'Standesamt I' - is still located in Berlin today, traditions from this office also reach the Landesarchiv. They have been grouped together in group 'S'. These traditions all refer to areas that are not part of Berlin. The largest part of this group is the stock S Rep. 100 with the still existing documents from the former German territories in the East - as far as these were taken to Germany and did not perish in the war. In addition, there are holdings of notarizations of Germans living abroad, namely as far as they were carried out in German consulates or embassies ('consular registers') or in the German colonies ('colonial registers'). There are also documents from the territories occupied by Germany during the Second World War (these are only deaths).Two large holdings contain the documents issued by the registry office I itself within the framework of its special jurisdiction.The S holdings also regularly receive supplements in accordance with the deadlines of the Civil Status Act, but only every five years.