General Resource Sites

• Ahnenforschung.Net - Das deutsche genealogische Webverzeichnis 
  The German genealogy web index.
• Ahnen und Wappen 
  Genealogy & heraldry.
• Archivalia: Genealogie 
  A weblog from Germany on archival topics with a category "Genealogie" and a category with English entries.
• Biggi's List - GenWiki 
  Genealogical links of Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. at the pages of Genealogy.net.
• Database Search Utility 
  Towns/villages east of Oder/Neisse Rivers located in the former German provinces of Pommerania, West and East Prussia, Silesia, Brandenburg, Posen.
• Der genealogische Terminkalender / Genealogical Calendar 
• Deutsche Post AG 
  Postal codes, etc.
• Eastern European Information 
  Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Ukraine and more.
• English Versions of Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Russian & Yiddish Foreign Names 
• Finding a German Place of Origin - Suggestions 
• Find your Roots in Germany - Links for Researchers and Travellers 
  Project by Research and Travel, Dr. Grams in cooperation with German National Tourist Office and the German Information Center.
• FOKO - Die Aktion Forscherkontakte der DAGV 
  Researchers contact database.
• genealogy.net - German genealogy / Familienforschung im deutschen Sprachraum 
  • GenWiki 
    Designed to become the main source for genealogy in the German-speaking areas of the world.
  • The German Genealogy Server- Tips to do Family Research in Germany 
  • German Genealogy: Tips for Researchers 
  • Index to States, Provinces, and Regions 
  • Regional Research in German Speaking Countries 
• The German/American Web Ring 
  For genealogy research & German cultural heritage.
• German Genealogy Cross-Index - from FEEFHS 
• German Genealogy Links 
• German Genealogy: Old Units 
  Translation table of old to contemporary units of measurement. Includes area, length, volume, weights, counts, speed, coins & worldwide measurements.
• German Genealogy? Start Here! 
  From D'ADDEZIO.com.
• German Immigration to Maryland 
  A scholarly review of immigration into Maryland from the very first colonists to modern immigrants.
• German Names 
  An online article in three parts on German names.
• German-Prussian Genealogy Links 
• German Resources on the Web 
  German genealogy links.
• German Roots and Genealogy 
  German and Palatine census, ships lists, naturalizations, oaths of allegiance and pioneer lists.
• German Roots: German Genealogy Resources 
  • Basic Research Outline for German Genealogy 
    A step by step guide for Americans of German descent.
  • German Roots: Emigration and Immigration 
    • Finding Passenger Lists 1820 to the 1940s - arrivals at US ports from Europe 
    • Finding Passenger Lists Before 1820 
    • Finding Passenger Arrival Records at the Port of Galveston, Texas 
    • Finding Passenger Arrival Records at the Port of Boston, Massachusetts 1820-1943 
• The Germans in America 
  From the Library of Congress.
• Germany Genealogy - WorldGenWeb 
• Going Deutsch 
  Online article on researching German roots and planning a trip to Germany.
• G's Adoption Registry - Germany 
• Heißersehntes Amerika. Auf den Spuren deutscher Auswanderer 
• Immigration: The Germans 
  A brief history of German immigration to the United States.
• Inmigrantes Alemanes al Sur de Chile 
  German immigration to southern Chile and genealogical data of the immigrant families.
• Internet Genealogy - VU University Project Page 
  Many helpful sites for Polish, Irish, German, German-Prussian, German-Russian, & Prussian backgrounds.
• Internet Sources of German Genealogy 
• Kindred Trails - Germany (German) Genealogy: Resources for Family History Research 
• Looking 4 Kin - Germany Genealogy Links and Chat 
• Misc. German Genealogy Information  and Germany Information 
  From Brigitte Gastel Lloyd.
• Palatine Vital Records 
  Palatine and German genealogical resources. Free databases, message boards and links.
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: Germany 
  • German Articles 
    Genealogical articles for German Research: emigration, geography, archives, regional, nobility, before parish records, etc.
  • German Projects 
• Prussian Genealogy Links 
• Ratgeber für den Familiengeschichtsforscher 
• RootsWeb's guide to tracing family trees - On the Trail of Germanic Ancestors 
• Ruth Ann's German-Austrian-Prussian Links Page 
• soc.genealogy.german Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ) 
• Surname Navigator Germany 
  A one window, megasearch engine for surnames. Can simultaneously search various databases using only one input screen. Includes CGI (LDS Mormons) Germany, Ancestral File (LDS Mormons) Germany, Geneanet Germany, Google, genealogy Germany, Google News Genealogy Germany, Rootsweb message board Germany, Ancestry.com, Email Finder Germany, White Pages Germany.
• www.ahnen-und-wappen.de * Genealogie, Heraldik (Ahnenforschung, Wappenkunde) 
• Yahoo!...Germany...Genealogy 

Government & Cities

• Adalbert Goertz's Regional German FAQs 
  Short history of fifteen German regions and how to contact mail-lists and adminstrative offices.
• Court Web Sites - Germany 
  Links to the web sites of various levels of judicial courts.
• Database Search Utility 
  60,960 towns, villages, hamlets east of the Oder/Neiße Rivers in the former German provinces of Ostpreußen einschließich Memel (Eastprussia, including Memel), Westpreußen (Westprussia), Pommern (Pommerania), Schlesien (Silesia), Brandenburg.
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: Schleswig-Holstein 
  Genealogical guide for doing research in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (formerly part of Denmark). Includes alphabetical list of parishes, parish boundary maps, and guide to the Danish census there 1835-1860.

History & Culture

• Detlef Schmitz - Heraldik 
  German site with numerous links to heraldry pages, and to armorials online.
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History 
  Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
• The Forty Eighters 
  From the Handbook of Texas Online. Oriented towards Texas Germans but interesting general information on this immigrant group.
• Heraldik im Netz 
  German heraldry.
• Home Erenfried 
  Information relating to the German and imperial aristocracy of the tenth and eleventh centuries.
• Kunst und Kultur der Wappen / Art and Culture of the Coat of Arms 
  Introduction into the art and culture of heraldy, photographic index of architectural heraldry in western and southern Germany, in German language.
• Night Watchman of Rothenburg ob der Tauber 
  A visual tour of a medieval town.
• The Turnverein Movement 
  From the Handbook of Texas Online. Oriented towards Texas Germans but interesting general information on these German social clubs.
• Wappensuche 
  Heraldry in German-speaking areas.
• Yahoo!...Germany...History 

How To

• Basic Research Outline for German Genealogy 
  From the German Roots website.
• Bavaria FAQ's 
  Beginning Your Research, Town Locating, Name, Records and Archives, Correspondence, Research Tools and Other.
• Beyond the Index--Michael John Neill's Articles in the Ancestry Daily News 
  • Before and After "Germans to America" 
• Familiengeschichtsforschung in Orten ohne Kirchenbücher 
  Methodical introduction and examples for genealogical resarch in Central European villages without parish registers.
• FamilySearch Research Guidance - Research Outline - Germany 
  This outstanding outline introduces records and strategies that can help you learn more about your ancestors. It explains terms associated with this state's particular genealogy research and describes the content, use, and availability of major genealogical records.
• Finding Passenger Lists 1820-c.1940 
  A basic tutorial for German Americans by Joe Beine, German Roots Webmaster.
• Finding Where Your Ancestors Came From in Germany 
  Article by Linda Herrick, Origins.
• Genealogie und Industriegeschichte - 61. Deutscher Genealogentag 
  Der Deutsche Genealogentag wird jährlich durch einen genealogischen Verein im Auftrag der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft genealogischer Verbände (DAGV) ausgerichtet. Unter der genannten Adresse finden sich Vortragsprogramm und weitere Veranstaltungshinweise des jeweils kommenden Genealogentages sowie Rückblicke auf die der letzten Jahre.
• Genealogy Research in Stuttgart Libraries and Archives 
  Tips and hints by Lisa Petersen.
• A Genealogical Handbook of German Research 
  Excellent "How To" guide from FamilySearch.org.
• German Genealogical Research Before The Church Records Begin 
  Tips and hints by Lisa Petersen.
• German Genealogy 
  How To article from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Department.
• German & Genealogy 
  An online article in two parts on German words frequently encountered in genealogy.
• German Research at Libraries and Archives in Baden-Wuerttemberg 
  Tips and hints by Lisa Petersen.
• Germany Research Outline 
  From the FamilySearch.org.
• Hints for researchers outside Germany 
• IRC vs. German Postage Stamps 
• Successful Genealogical Correspondence and Travel to Germany 
  By Friedrich R. Wollmershäuser.
• Which BADEN is Which? 

Language, Handwriting & Script

• beliebte Vornamen: Hitlisten 1890 - 2008 
  The most popular first names in Germany since 1890.
• Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz) 
• English Versions of Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Russian & Yiddish Foreign Names 
• Family Tree Press - German Genealogy Records 
  The German Researcher and Deciphering Gothic Records - research guides.
• Form Letters for German Genealogy 
• Fraktur Chart 
• Fraktur and German Script 
• German-English Genealogical Dictionary 
  A book by Ernest Thode.
• German-English Illness Translations 
• German Genealogy Translations 
  German/English-English/German translation services focusing only on documents pertaining to German Genealogy.
• German Translation Service, translators of the Old German Scripts 
• German-English On-line Dictionary 
• German Genealogical Word List 
• German Genealogy: Form Letters 
  • Letter to join a regional genealogical organisation 
  • Letter to send to registrar's office in Germany 
  • Sample Letters to a Church 
  • Sample Letters to an Archive 
• German Letter Writing Guide 
  For genealogical queries, from FamilySearch.org.
• German Translator 
  Translation of 19th- and 20th-century handwritten correspondence, diaries.
• German Study Group / German Words 
  Includes time keeping, occupations, illnesses, common genealogical words, and words used in official documents.
• German Translation Service 
  Specializations: German genealogy, Fraktur and German script, legal documents.
• German Translation Service for Old German Handwriting 
  Translators of handwritten documents in the old German scripts.
• German Translation Service, translators of the Old German Scripts 
• A Glossary of German Words Used in Official Documents 
• Handwriting Guide: German Gothic 
• Here you can learn Suetterlin - the "German handwriting" 
  Excellent online tutorial on the German script and handwriting including an alphabet and scanned examples of documents.
• If I Can You Can Decipher Germanic Records 
  A book by Edna Bentz.
• Ilse Andrews Translations 
  Professional translator will transcribe and translate German genealogical records of any period.
• Moravians - German Script Tutorial 
  With Moravian Archival examples
  • German Script Alphabet 
• NLP @ petamem 
  Dictionary - English, German, Czech, French, Spanish, Polish, Hungary, Italian, Portugese, Dutch, Swedish. Restore or remove diacritisation in German, French, Spanish, Italian and Czech texts.
• Old German Handwritten Scripts 
• The old German handwriting 
• OldGerman - I Read Old German Handwriting 
  Reading and translation of old German parish and ship records.
• Old German Professions, Occupations and Illnesses 
• Old Script.com 
  Genealogy translation services for several languages with an emphasis in Old German Script known as Fraktur. Genealogical research assistance provided.
• Old Spelling Patterns 
• RF German-English Translation Service 
  Specialize in all types of handwritten documents in the OLD GERMAN script.Information from the Silesian Agricultural Estate Registry, 1937.
• ScripTrans - Old German Script Free Transcription Service 
• Script Tutorials - Paleography, Old Documents, and Family History Research 
  Resources for old handwriting and documents in English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• Sorbian in Germany 
• Translation Service only for genealogy related material 
  Volunteer translators can provide you with translations between Czech, English, Dutch, French, German, & Polish. This service is provided via e-mail. Exact request syntax and length rules must be followed in order to expedite processing.
• TransServ – GenWiki 
  A free translation service for genealogical topics.
• Tutorials for Reading Old German, French and English Handwriting, Naming Systems 
• Walden Font 
  Several different fonts for sale, including: The Gutenberg Press German Fraktur Fonts and German Script.
• Yahoo! Babel Fish - Text Translation and Web Page Translation 
  Input a URL for a web site or a block of plain text and this site will translate it for you: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

Libraries, Archives & Museums

• Archive in Hessen 
• Archive in Nordrhein-Westfalen  
• Archives in Germany 
• Archivschule Marburg 
  • Archive im Internet 
    • Archive in Deutschland 
      • Staatliche Archive im Internet 
      • Kommunalarchive im Internet 
      • Literaturachive im Internet 
      • Wirtschaftsarchive im Internet 
      • Parlamentsarchive und Archive politischer Parteien und Verbände im Internet 
      • Universitätsarchive und Archive sonstiger Institutionen im Internet 
      • Medienarchive im Internet 
• Badische Landes Bibliothek 
• Bavarian State Libraries and the Bavarian Library Network / Bayerischen Staatlichen Bibliotheken und dem Bibliotheksverbund Bayern 
• Berlin Central and State Library / Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) 
• Bundesarchiv Online 
  The National Archives of Germany.
• Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR 
  Federal commission which holds the records of the former East German secret police - the Stasi. Includes a description of their holdings and instructions on who may access these records and the process for doing so.
  • Das Archiv 
  • The Archives 
• Civil Archives Libraries and Museums of Saxony 
• Cologne Public Library / StadtBibliothek Köln  ~ Germany
• Deutsches Freimaurer Museum Bayreuth / German Masonic Museum  ~ Bayreuth
• Deutsches Tagebucharchiv e.V. 
• Die Deutsche Bibliothek 
• The European Library 
  A portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some for a fee.
• Evangelisches Zentral-Archiv in Berlin 
  Founded as a result of the joining of the Archive of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) and the Archive of the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU). The Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) is itself a union of all the Protestant churches in the several German states, creating an alliance of independent churches of the various Protestant denominations. The Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU) is the successor organization of the Prussian State Church.
  • Genealogy 
• Family History Centers in Germany 
  From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.
• Family History Centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 
• Family History Library Catalog 
  From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other localities by place name.
  • Germany 
    • Anhalt 
    • Baden 
    • Bayern (Bavaria) 
    • Braunschweig 
    • Bremen 
    • Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine)  - see also France, Alsace-Lorraine (région) 
    • Hamburg 
    • Hessen 
    • Lippe 
    • Mecklenburg 
    • Oldenburg 
    • Preußen (Prussia) 
      • Sachsen (Saxony)  - see also Germany, Sachsen 
      • Schleswig-Holstein 
    • Sachsen (Saxony)  - see also Germany, Preußen, Sachsen 
    • Schaumburg-Lippe 
    • Thüringen (Thuringia) 
    • Waldeck 
    • Württemberg 
• Family History Centers in Germany 
• Forschungsstelle Deutsche Auswanderer in den USA - DAUSA  ~ Oldenburg
  Research center at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität.
• Genealogie Forschungsstelle Dortmund 
  Genealogie Forschungsstelle der Kirche Jesu Christi der HLT (Mormonen) Kostenlose Online-Beratung! Family History Center of the LDS Online consultation!
• Genealogie-Forschungsstellen: Mormonen - Kirche Jesu Christi HLT Buch Mormon LDS Mormons die Mormonentempel 
• Georgia Archives Ethnic Records 
  From the Georgia Archives.
  • German 
• German-American Titles 
  Holdings of the University of Texas at Austin.
• German - Canadian Museum of Applied History 
  History of of German troops defending Canada from 1776 to 1783. Including a history of the Duchy of Brunswick, photos of Brunswick and other cities in the old Duchy.
• The German Émigré Collection  ~ Albany, New York
  From the University at Albany Library. Personal and professional papers of German-speaking émigrés in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s. Also included are the records of organizations which assisted the émigrés.
• HBZ Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 
  HBZ - The online utility and service center for academic libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library  ~ Collegeville, Minnesota
  At St. John's University.
  • HMML Research Center 
    • Center for Austrian and German Medieval Studies 
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania 
  Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.
  • A Guide to Manuscript and Microfilm Collections of the Research Library of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies 
    • Alsatian 
    • German 
• International Tracing Service  ~ Germany
  Originally organized to search for non-German persons who had become missing or displaced during the war and to assist separated families in being reunited. It now holds millions of records on concentration camp prisoners, Jews, foreigners in German-controlled territories & displaced persons.
  • History of the ITS 
  • Tracing Service 
• Landesarchiv Berlin 
  • The Loss of records 
• Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein 
• Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz 
  Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland Pfalz & Landesarchiv Speyer.
• Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin 
• Leo Baeck Institute  ~ New York
  Research center and archive for the study of German Jewish history.
  • Visting the LBI for Family Research 
• LibDex - The Library Index - Germany 
  A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).
• The Library of Congress 
  • European Reading Room 
    The primary public access point for readers and researchers seeking to use the vast European collections of the Library of Congress.
    • The German Collections 
    • The Germans in America 
• Max Kade German-American Center & the Society for German-American Studies  ~ Indianapolis, Indiana
  • German-American Historic Sites and Museums 
  • German-American Libraries and Archives 
  • The German Americans: An Ethnic Experience 
    • A German-American Chronology 
• Palatine Heritage Centre  ~ Rathkeale, Ireland
• Palatines to America - Germany Genealogy Society - Online Library Catalog 
  Library catalog for the Palatines to America Society in Columbus, Ohio, focusing on German genealogy.
• Repositories of Primary Sources - Europe - Germany 
  A list of links to online resources from the Univ. of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.
• Research Center for German Emigrants in the USA 
• Saarland Landesarchiv 
• Sächsisches Staatsarchiv 
• Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg 
  • Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 
  • Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart 
    • Auswanderung aus Württemberg 
      Auswandererdokumentation Hans Glatzle im Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart.
  • Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein 
  • Staatsarchiv Freiburg 
  • Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg 
  • Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen 
  • Staatsarchiv Wertheim 
• Die staatlichen Archive Bayerns 
• Staatsarchiv Bremen - Bestände-übersicht 
• Staatsarchiv Hamburg 
• Staatsarchive in Niedersachsen 
  • Quellen zur Auswanderung in den niedersächsischen Staatsarchiven 
  • Online-Findbuch 
    Searchable online database.
• Stadtarchiv Koblenz 
• Die thüringischen Staatsarchive 
• Unitätsarchiv der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität Herrnhut 
  Moravian Church archives.
  • Holdings 
  • Library 
• Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart / Wuerttemberg State Library 
  Regional library for Baden-Wuerttemberg, for the administrative districts of Stuttgart and Tuebingen.

Locality Specific & Migration

• Ahnenforschung in der Magdeburger Börde / Genealogy in the Magdeburger Börde 
  HOBOHM, ARENDT, VAHLDIECK, KNAPE, CYRYS, KODURA, HEINEMANN, ZIMMERMANN, JABUSCH, OSTHER, THIELECKE, SCHERNICKAU, ALLERINGERSLEBEN, ALVERSDORF, ARENDSEE, AULOSEN, AUSLEBEN, BANSLEBEN, BARNEBERG, BELSDORF, BERGEDORF, BERLIN, BERNTRODE, BORNSTEDT, BRUMBY, DRACKENSTEDT, DREILEBEN, DRESDEN, DRUXBERGE, DÜSSELDORF, EILENSTEDT.
• Auswanderer von Taben und Rodt nach USA / Emigrants from Taben an Rodt to US (IOWA) 
  Emmigration from Taben-Rodt from 1850 to 1875, Incluses the surnames KLEIN, NEUSES, GANSEMER, FAHA, DUEHR, DUHR, ROERSCH, LOCH, NEUSES & NEISES.
• Back to the Roots in Deutsch Krone 
  Information and transcribed records from he area Deutsch Krone (Walcz) and around the castle of Tütz (Tuczno).
• Birkenhördt - Das Projekt / The Project 
  This is a website maintained by a group of contributors living in Germany and the United States who have common roots in the villages of Birkenhördt (Birkenhoerdt), Böllenborn (Boellenborn), Blankenborn, Reisdorf, Lauterschwan and the southern area of Rheinland-Pfalz (formerly Palatine), Germany near the French border. The website has an ancestry database containing almost 20,000 individuals and covering the year 1640 to the present. In addition to the database, there is also other interesting information as well, e.g. a chart showing emigration data, a transcription of inscriptions on gravestones in the local cemeteries.
• Black Forest Genealogy 
• Buer Photo Page 
  Parish of Buer in Hanover.
• Bühlertal, Baden Home Page 
• D'Alsace en Lorraine 
  Many French resources listed here.
• Donauschwaben - Genealogy Roots 
• Donauschwaben Homepages 
  Links to private homepages of Danube-Swabian genealogical researchers.
• Donauschwaben of Trenton 
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• Eastern Europe 
  See this category on Cyndi's List for related links.
• Emigrants from Nattheim to USA / Nattheimer Auswanderer nach Amerika 
• Emigrants from Oggenhausen to USA / Oggenhausener Auswanderer nach Amerika 
• Emigrants from Kreis Meschede (Westfalen) to the United States in America 
• The Emsland Heritage Society 
  For those seeking histories and genealogies of the peoples and towns making up the region of upper northwest of Germany known as "The Emsland."
• Familienforschung in Pommern 
• The Fehmarn Genealogy Site 
  Devoted to those who are researching their ancestry on the Island of Fehmarn in Schleswig-Holstein in the Baltic Sea.
• From Wuerttemberg to America 
  A 19th century German-Jewish village on its way to the New World.
• Fulda, Noble County, Ohio 
  Genealogy of the German families that attended St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fulda, Ohio.
• Galizien German Descendants 
  Dedicted to family history research of the German Descendants from the Austrian province of Galicia (now part of Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine).
• Genealogical Research in Bavaria 
• Genealogie im Egerland/ Sudetenland 
  KUMMER, PICHL, FREISLEBEN und SCHOENER.
• Genealogy research in Schleswig Holstein Germany 
• Genealogie: Bremen 
• Genealogie im Oldenburger Münsterland 
  Online publication of various 1920's genealogical books about the Oldenburg section of Germany - towns such as Damme, Dinklage, Vechta, etc.
• Genealogus Hamburg 
  Portal for family historical researches in Hamburg, Germany.
• Genealogy in Ostfriesland 
• German Ancestors in the Batschka, Hungary 
  Germans in Bacs Bodrog county in the Batschka region of Hungary from Obrovac, Tovarisevo, Hodschag, Gajdobra, and more towns to be added.
• German-Bohemian Immigrant Surname Database 
• German Genealogy: Donauschwaben / Danube-Swabians 
• German Genealogy: Elsass / Alsace / Alsatia 
• Germans from Russia 
  See this category on Cyndi's List for related links.
• German Genealogy: Region Sudetenland 
  Genealogy in the Sudetenland (German settlement areas of Bohemia and Moravia).
• German Immigrant Ancestors in Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York 
  History and genealogy (including some biographical sketches) of the German immigrant/German-American community of Syracuse, New York and environs, 1825-1945. Includes a Timeline of Syracuse History, text of "Geschichte der Deutschen in Syracuse und Onondaga County..." (1897), genealogies and online data for surnames GILCHER/GILGER, KREISCHER, KRAFT, LIPKE/LEIPKE & REXIN.
• German Immigrants From Oberkalbach Germany 
  List of people who emigrated from the village of Oberkalbach, Hessen, Germany. Includes BLUM, DORN, GLOCK, HERBERT, KRIEGER, LOEFFERT, MUELLER, SCHAEFER, ULLRICH.
• Germans in Boston Resource Center 
• The Great Palatine Migration 
• Help in searching for ancestors from the Sudetenland 
  German settlement area in Bohemia/Moravia/Austrian Silesia ->Czechoslovakia -> Czech Republik.
• History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary 
• Homepage Chronik Hefersweiler-Berzweiler - Hefersweiler-Berzweiler und Ingweilerhof 
  Chronicle and history of the village Hefersweiler and Berzweiler. WILLRICH, SCHWARZ, ARMBRUST.
• Homepage of the Baden-Württemberg Mailing List on RootsWeb 
  Various links for Baden-Württemberg research.
• Jebenhausen - A Jewish Community in Wuerttemberg (1777-1900) 
  Vast information on the Jewish community of a village in Southern Germany, including family history and genealogy.
• Juden in Baden und Württemberg 
• Kappel am Rhein Family Names 
  An index of the family names listed in the Dorfsippenbuch, Village Family Book, 1700-1955 as researched by Albert Koebele.
• Kraig Ruckel's Palatine & Pennsylvania-Dutch Genealogy Page 
• Der Kreis Belgard - Schivelbein in Pommern 
  The former Kreis Belgard - Schivelbein in Pomerania yesterday and today. Information about history and genealogy.
• Kreis Schlochau 
  The county of Schlochau that was part of West Prussia, Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen, and Pomerania.
• Michael John Neill's Ostfriesen Ancestors 
• Oberkalbach, Hessen, Germany - Village of My Berthold/Ullrich Ancestors 
  Includes local history, biographies, census & parish record indexes, and information on emigration from Oberkalbach.
• Ortsfamilienbuch Südlicher Hochwald 
  Database of over 60,000 names from the area of Weiskirchen and nearby villages of Saarland. In German & English. Researched in Germany and the United States.
• Ostfriesland Ancestors 
• Palatine History 
  From The Olive Tree.
• Palatines to America 
• Plock German Genealogy 
  German families who settled in what is now Plock, Poland.
• Pommernland 
• Pommern Genealogy Webring Home  
• Prussian-Russian-Canadian Mennonite Genealogical Resources 
• Rootdigger - Emigrants Database - Genealogy Schleswig-Holstein 
  Professional genealogical research in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Plenty of free info about history, people, archives, regions, and names. Historical maps. Emigrants' database, thousands of people, steadily growing.
• Saxon Genealogy 
  Specialising in the Kingdom of Saxony.
• Saxony Roots Homepage 
• Schefflenz 
  Genealogy infomration, links, maps and more.
• Stemwede Genealogy Home Page 
  Genealogy information for Stemwede, Germany, in North Rhine-Westephalia. Municipal Community of Stemwede, including Wehdem, Dielingen and Levern.
• Transplanted but not Uprooted: 19th-Century-Immigrants from Hessen-Darmstadt in Wisconsin 
  Between 1839 and 1860, some 2,000 people from Rheinhessen, one of the three provinces of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, emigrated to Wisconsin where they clustered in several counties, especially Milwaukee, Washington, and Sheboygan.
• Upstream Vistula 
  German Genealogy along the Vistula. This web site is dedicated to all people interested in the history and the living conditions of the ethnic German settlers in Central Poland. (English and German Version).
• Villingendorf Site 
  Family histories of people of Villingendorf, Rottweil, Germany, especially emigrants to America.
• Vörstetten, Baden, Germany 
• Wadersloher Familienforscher im Internet 
  Informationen zur Wadersloher Familien- und Höfeforschung. Wadersloh liegt im Münsterland, in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
• Western Europe 
  See this category on Cyndi's List for related links.
• Which Baden is which? 
  The name and German word Baden refers to more than one place, and some of these have confusingly modified their names in the course of their history.
• Wittgenstein Genealogy Home Page 
  The former counties of Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein in the south of the Sauerland.

Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Germany/Prussia Mailing Lists 
  Most of the mailing list links below point to this site, wonderfully maintained by John Fuller. John indexes links for all known genealogy mailing lists, including RootsWeb and others.
• RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: Germany 
  The majority of genealogy mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb.com. Messages on RootsWeb lists are archived. The links to RootsWeb below point you to the archives (browse or search).

• ALSACE-GENEALOGY Mailing List  and the corresponding web page
  For anyone interested in Alsace, a border region of France and Germany.
• ALSACE-LORRAINE Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in Alsace-Lorraine. Archives: browse or search.
• ALSACHAT Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Alsace, a border region of France and Germany, and meeting in IRC to chat with other researchers. Archives: browse or search.
  • Alsachat.net , Alsace Gen Chat , Chat généalogique sur l' Alsace 
• ALSATIAN-AMERICAN Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Americans with Alsatian ancestry. Archives: browse or search.
• ALSATIAN-RHENAN-NOBILITY Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French- German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the ancient nobility of the Alsatian-Rhenan area (Alsace, France and the Rhenish Palatinate/German Rheinpfalz, Germany). Archives: browse or search.
• ALSATIAN-SURNAMES Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding Alsatian surnames. Archives: browse or search.
• ALSATIAN-TRADITIONS Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Alsatian traditions. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in the Province of Alsace, nowadays France is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• AUS-GERMAN Mailing List 
  For anyone researching Australian families with ancestral lines that originated in Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• AUS-QLD-SE-Germans Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the descendants of the Germans who migrated to South East Queensland, Australia. Archives: browse or search.
• AUSTRIA-HOLOCAUST Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Austrians who were interned in the German Holocaust camps. Archives: browse or search.
• BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Mailing List 
  For Baden, Hohenzollern, and Wurttemberg. Archives: browse or search.
• BAVARIA Mailing List 
  For the kingdom, province and state of Bavaria including the city of Munich.
• BAVARIAN-ANCESTORS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the state of Bavaria, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• BRANDENBURG-L Mailing List 
  For those interested in sharing and exchanging information on genealogy and history which has a connection to the general area of Brandenburg.
• BUNDESLAND Mailing List 
  For those trying to find their German roots and interested in German history. Archives: browse or search.
• CHARLEMAGNE Mailing List 
  For anyone researching the genealogy of Charlemagne, also called Charles the Great (742-814), and the history of that time period. Archives: browse or search.
• DANUBE-SWABIAN-GENEALOGY Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for descendants of the Danube-Swabian German ethnic group from the Danubian Plain in Hungary, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-ALZENAU-KAHLGRUND Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Kahlgrund area, former Landkreis (county) of Alzenau, Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany. It now belongs to the Landkreis of Aschaffenburg. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-BAD-URLOFFEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the village of Urloffen, Offenburg, Baden. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-BALTISCHE Mailing List 
  For anyone who is interested in Deutsch-Baltische (Baltic German) genealogy. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-BERLIN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the City of Berlin, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-BODENSEE Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the ancient cities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland around Bodensee Lake and vicinity. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in the Bodensee area is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-BREITUNGEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Herrenbreitungen, Altenbreitungen, and Frauenbreitungen (all three are now the one town of Breitungen), Germany, and surrounding communities. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-CATHOLICFRANCONIA Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the catholic parts of Franconia, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-EIFEL Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Eifel region of Western Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-FRANKENLAND Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the area know as Franken in central Germany (Bavaria). Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-FULDA Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Diocese of Fulda, located in and around the town of Fulda, Germany (before 1752 the Diocese had the status of an Abbey). Archives: browse or search.
• deu-gene Mailing List 
• DEU-HAMBURG Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-HES-AUERBA Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the town of Auerbach, Hessen, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-LADBERGEN Mailing List 
  For anyone conducting genealogical research centered in the town of Ladbergen, Kreis Steinfurt, Westphalia, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-LINDENFELS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Lindenfels and/or any of the surrounding villages of the Odenwald/Starkenburg/Bergstrasse area of Hessen, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-LUNEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Lippe River areas of Westfalen, Germany, including the towns of Lunen, Waltrop, Kastrop, and surrounding towns. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-MECKLENBURG Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the areas encompassed by the current German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-NAHAUSEN Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the ancestors and descendants of the residents of Nahausen, Brandenburg, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-OLDENBURG Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the town of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-POMMERN-GREIFENHAGEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the area of Kreis Greifenhagen, Pommern, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-REGIO Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the ancient "Regio" cities (Alsace, Baden, Nordwestschweiz/Northwest Switzerland). Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in what is called "Regio" is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-RUEGEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the island of Ruegen, VorPommern, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-SAARLAND Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Saarland, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-SAUERLAND Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Sauerland area of Germany, especially the former "Herzogtum Westfalen". Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-SCHLESIEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Schlesien/Silesia region of Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-SCHONAU Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in families from the town of Schönau, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-SIEGERLAND Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Siegen/Siegerland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-TETTENWEIS-ROTTAL Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Rottal region of Lower Bavaria, especially the town of Tettenweis. Archives: browse or search.
• DEU-THUERINGEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Thueringen, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• DEUTSCHLAND Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Germany and other German-speaking areas. The language for the list is strictly German. Archives: browse or search.
• ELBING Mailing List 
  For the discussion of history and genealogy concerning the former German and West Prussian city of Elbing, today's Elblag in Poland. Archives: browse or search.
• EXULANTEN Mailing List 
  Exulanten is the name given to the Protestants that were forced out Austria (estimated as many as100,000) during 16th to 18th century. The largest wave of about 22,000 left the Salzburg area in1731/32. Most went to East Prussia (Germany - Poland, Lithuania and Latvia) but some went to Siebenbürgen and Banat (today's Romania), Hungary and to parts of today's Slovakia. Archives: browse or search.
  • Austrian Genealogy - The Exulanten-L Mailing List 
• FamNord Mailing List 
  For those genealogists who have ancestors in Northern Germany.
• fido.ger.genealogy Newsgroup 
• FRA-ELS-ROSHEIM Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the city of Rosheim and surrounding areas at the foot of Mount Sainte-Odile, Alsace, nowadays France. Decapolis related matters are also appropriate topics. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in Rosheim or surrounding areas or former Decapolis cities is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• FRA-ELS-STRASBOURG Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the city of Strasbourg, Alsace, nowadays France, and surrounding areas. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in Strasbourg is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• FRANKEN-L Mailing List 
  For those interested in sharing and exchanging information on genealogy and history which has a connection to the area of the three sections of northern Bavaria called Oberfranken, Mittelfranken and Unterfranken.
• GEN-DE Mailing List 
  gatewayed with the soc.genealogy.german newsgroup. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-AFRICAN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Africans with German ancestry. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-ALSATIAN Mailing List 
  Multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the Province of Alsace, nowadays France. Anything that concerns Alsatian or German-Alsatian traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in the Province of Alsace is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-AMERICAN Mailing List 
  For genealogy related to German immigrants and their families AFTER their arrival in America. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L Mailing List 
  About the culture, genealogy and heritage of the German-speaking people of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-BRAZILIAN Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Brazilians with German ancestry. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-HERALDRY Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in German Heraldry and Coats of Arms. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-HISTORY Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding German history in order to place the lives of our ancestors in perspective. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-HUNGARIAN Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the German-Hungarian communities in Hungary. Anything that concerns German-Hungarian traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-JEWISH Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in people with German-Jewish ancestry. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Duchies of Thuringen (Thuringia) including Reuss altere Linie, Reuss jungere Linie, Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg), Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Sachsen-Koburg-Cotha), Saxe-Meiningen (Sachsen-Meiningen), Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach), Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Anhalt, and Schaumberg-Lippe; Braunschweig (Brunswick); Lippe (aka: Lippe-Detmold); Oldenburg; Waldeck; Mecklenburg-Schwerin; and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-MEDIEVAL Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding genealogy in Germany during the Middle Ages, generally regarded as extending from the fall of Rome in 476 to about 1450. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-MILITARY Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the military of Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANNA_COLONIES Mailing List 
  For descendants of the Germanna Colonies (i.e., the original German settlements in Virginia under Governor Spotswood; there were three colonies established, the first being in 1714). Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-NOBILITY Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in German nobility. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-NY Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German immigrants who passed through or settled in New York. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-CO Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding German immigrants in Colorado. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-IN-HUNTINGTONCO Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in German ancestors who settled in Huntington County, Indiana. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-NE-IA Mailing List 
  For the discussion of the genealogy, history, and culture of Germans in Nebraska and Iowa including immigrants from all parts of Germany, Pomerania, Saxony, etc. Discussion of migration patterns, immigration, heraldry, historical sketches, settlements, census data, wills, family Bibles, vital records, web sites, etc. is encouraged. In addition, seasonal (holiday) messages about favorite German recipes handed down from generation to generation will be allowed. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-NY Mailing List 
  Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-OH-STARKCO Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the German immigrants who settled in Stark County, Ohio. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-STLOUIS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German families who came to or through the St. Louis, Missouri, area. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-TO-PHILA Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in German immigrants to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-SURNAMES Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in German surnames (including German surnames in Alsace, former Austria-Hungary, Baltic, Benelux, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, etc). Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANS-WI Mailing List 
  For the discussion of the genealogy, history, and culture of Germans in Wisconsin from Territorial times to present including immigrants from all parts of Germany, Pomerania, Saxony, etc. Discussion of migration patterns, immigration, heraldry, historical sketches, settlements, census data, wills, family Bibles, vital records, web sites, etc. is encouraged. In addition, seasonal (holiday) traditions relative to favorite German recipes handed down from generation to generation will be allowed. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-TEXAN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in German and Central European immigrants to Texas, especially Germans in the 19th century. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMAN-TRADITIONS Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in German traditions. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in Germany or former German areas is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in passenger lists for ships from Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• GERSIG Mailing List 
  A regional special interest group (SIG) mailing list that focuses on Jewish genealogy in German-speaking regions (e.g., Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Alsace, Lorraine, Bohemia, Moravia).
• HANNOVER-L Mailing List 
  Genealogy and history which has a connection to the former Kingdom of Hannover.
• Heppenheim-Genealogy Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the families originating in the German town of Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, Hesse-Darmstadt.
• HESSE Mailing List 
  For the kingdoms, principalities, provinces, and state of Hessen (Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Starkenburg, Hesse-Nassau, Waldeck, Rheinhessen) including the city of Frankfurt-A/Main. Archives: browse or search.
• HessenGenWeb Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the area known as Hessen, Germany, and all its predecessors such as Hessen-Darmstadt, Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Nassau, Kurhessen, and Rheinhessen. Among other things, the list offers assistance in research from several experts and free language translation.
• HESSENLAND Mailing List 
  Eine Mail Liste fuer deutschsprechende Familienforscher und Historiker fuer die Gegend die man heute mit Hessen bezeichnet. A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the area known as Hessen in central Germany. The language for the list is German. Archives: browse or search.
• IRL-PALATINE Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German Palatine immigrants to Ireland. Archives: browse or search.
• jebenhausen Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Jewish community of Jebenhausen, Wuerttemberg, Germany (founded in 1777 and dissolved in 1900), in order to achieve a virtual reunion of the descendants of Jebenhausen's Jewish families.
• J-Frankfurt Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Jewish families originating in the ancient German city of Frankfurt am Main.
• JUDEO-ALSATIAN Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the Province of Alsace, nowadays France, related to their Jewish roots. Anything that concerns Jewish-Alsatian traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in the Province of Alsace is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• Kochendorf-Genealogy Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the families originating in the German village of Kochendorf, now Bad Friedrichshall, Baden Württemberg.
• Koningsberg Mailing List 
  For anyone with an interest in Jewish genealogy related to the town of Koningsberg, Germany.
• KREIS-NEIDENBURG Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, historical, or cultural interest in Kreis Neidenburg, a former German state of East Prussia. Archives: browse or search.
• KRUMMHORN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Krummhorn area of Ostfriesland, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• LA-FRENCH-GERMAN Mailing List 
  For anyone researching their French and/or German ancestors in Louisiana. Archives: browse or search.
• MECKLENBURG-L Mailing List 
  Genealogy and history which has a connection to the general area of Mecklenburg. Archives: browse or search.
• MORAVIA Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. Archives: browse or search.
• Neumark-L Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Eastern Brandenburg (previously Neumark), formerly part of Prussia and now part of western Poland. The exchange of information on ancestors, research in German and Polish archives, literature retrieval, etc. is encouraged and discussions of social history, general history, ethnic conditions, migration, and hints on Neumark related literature are welcome. Cooking recipes and song texts are not considered appropriate. The language for the list is German only (machine translations not accepted).
• NIEDERSACHSEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German Province of Niedersachsen. Archives: browse or search.
• NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• Oberschlesien-L Mailing List 
  For those with a genealogical interest in the former Prussian province of Upper Schlesien (Silesia), which is now mostly in Poland. The language for the list is principally German though there are occasional postings in English.
• OLDENBURG-L Mailing List 
  For those interested in sharing and exchanging information on genealogy and history which has a connection to the former Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
• OLD-GERMAN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in deciphering and interpreting written documents in German from earliest to most recent 20th Century times, and discussing old German words, phrases, names, abbreviations and antique jargon. Archives: browse or search.
• OLD-GERMAN-NEWSPAPERS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in old German newspapers and the persons who worked for them. Archives: browse or search.
• OSTFRIESEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Ostfriesland (East Friesia), Germany. Archives: browse or search.
• OW-PREUSSEN-L Mailing List 
  Genealogy and history which has a connection to the former East and West Prussia.
• PALATINES Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the German Palatine and Palatine refugees who fled to Ireland and North America post 1709. Archives: browse or search.
• PFALZ Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Palatine of Germany (area now divided between Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen, formerly Bavaria's Rhenish Pfalz). Archives: browse or search.
• PolandBorderSurnames Mailing List 
  A mailing list of surnames for anyone researching genealogy in the former historical borders of Poland including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Moravia, Hungary, Russia, the Balkans, and East Prussia. Archives: browse or search.
• PolandBorderSurnames-OBITUARIES Mailing List 
  For obituaries for anyone researching genealogy in the former historical borders of Poland including Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Moravia, Austria, Hungary, Russia, the Balkans, West Prussia and East Prussia. Archives: browse or search.
• POMMERN-L Mailing List 
  Genealogy and history which has a connection to Pommerania, both the current Polish part and remaining German parts of the former Prussian province.
• POSEN Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the former Prussian province of Posen/Poznan and its adjoining areas (especially Silesia), Germany. Archives: browse or search.
  • Posen: Official Website of the Posen-L Mailing List 
• PRUSSIA-ROOTS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Brandenburg, Hannover (or Hanover), Ostpreussen (East Prussia), Pommern (Pomerania), Posen, Provinz Sachsen (Province of Saxony - northern Saxony), Schleswig-Holstein, Schlesien (Silesia), Westpreussen (West Prussia), Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen. Archives: browse or search.
• QUEBEC-HESSIANS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the settlement of Hessian soldiers in Quebec, Canada, after the American Revolution. Archives: browse or search.
• RHEIN-PFALZ Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interests in the German Land of Rheinland-Pfalz. Although the political name Rheinland-Pfalz has been in existence only since the 20th century, this mailing list allows German researchers to share information for cities and towns within the current boundaries even though the information may be about a much earlier time. Archives: browse or search.
• RUS-KALININGRAD Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the City of Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg/Koenigsberg, Prussia), nowadays Russia, and surrounding areas. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• RUS-LIEBENTALDIST Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Grossliebental District (a German settlement) in Russia. This list is for serious researchers of the District who are willing to share information with other subscribers.
• RUS-SUSANNENTAL Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Russian village of Susannental (or Winkelmann as is was sometimes known), her German Russian inhabitants and their descendants. Archives: browse or search.
• SACHSEN-ANHALT-L Mailing List 
  Genealogy and history which has a connection to the present area of the state of Sachsen-Anhalt.
• SAXONY Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German State and Kingdom of Sachsen, and the capital city of Dresden. Archives: browse or search.
• SAXONY_ROOTS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German State and Kingdom of Saxony. The language for the list is English only; however, with good connections to germanspeaking researchers. Archives: browse or search.
• Schefflenz Mailing List 
  For anyone researching their ancestors from Schefflenz (including Oberschefflenz, Mittelschefflenz and Unterschefflenz) and surrounding towns in the county of Mosbach, Baden, Germany.
• SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German province/state of Schleswig-Holstein. Archives: browse or search.
• ShipSamuel Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of genealogical information regarding the 1700s immigration from Germany and Switzerland to America.
• STALAG_POW_CAMPS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the World War II German prisoner of war camps and the prisoners held in these camps. Archives: browse or search.
• SURNAMES-GERMAN Mailing List  gatewayed with the soc.genealogy.surnames.german newsgroup
  For surname queries related to German speaking countries. Archives: browse or search.
• TRIER-ROOTS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Luxembourg, the Saarland, the Rheinland, Westfalen (Westphalia), and the Pfalz (used to be between Rheinland and Baden, belonged to Bavaria but is now part of Rheinpfalz). Archives: browse or search.
• WEBERITES Mailing List 
  For genealogical interests in the Weberites, a religious group of Saxe Gotha, South Carolina (a German - Swiss settlement), and elsewhere. Archives: browse or search.
• WESTFALEN-L Mailing List 
  Genealogy and history which has a connection to the general area of Westphalia.

• Ahnenforschung.Net - Das deutsche genealogische Webverzeichnis: Genealogie-Chat 
  Deutscher Genealogie-Chat / German genealogy chat.
• Genealogy Network Genealogische Mailinglisten 
  German genealogy mailing lists hosted at Genealogy.net.
• Usenet Newsgroup soc.genealogy.german 
  Gatewayed with GEN-DE Mailing List 
  Archives: browse or search.
• Yahoo! Groups - Lippe-Forum · Forum für Familienforschung (Ahnenforschung, Genealogie) und Ortsforschung in Lippe 
  Mailing list for all researchers of the region of Lippe-Detmold (not Schaumburg-Lippe), which is now part of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
• Yahoo! Groups - schloff · Schlawer Orts-und Familienforschung 
  Ein Forum für alle, die sich für Orts-und Familienforschung im ehemaligen Kreis Schlawe/Pommern interessieren und darüber austauschen wollen. A place for everyone to talk about villages and genealogy in former 'Kreis' Schlawe.

Maps, Gazetteers & Geographical Information

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AdV) / Working Committee of the Surveying Authorities of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany (AdV) 
  Maps for sale at various levels of detail from the German mapping authority.
• Atlas des Deutschen Reichs - An Atlas of the German Empire 
  The Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein is relatively rare in libraries of the United States. Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison selected the 1883 copy in our collection as one of our first digitization projects because of its usefulness for genealogists. The atlas helps in tracing the roots of families with origins in any part of the German empire from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Besides Germany, the maps of this atlas also cover the bordering portions of present-day Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Switzerland. Due to the large scale of its maps (1:850,000) and its thorough gazetteer of place-names, one can locate even small towns and villages on the maps in the Ravenstein atlas. A special feature is the marking of the locations of churches on all of the maps as well as one special map with an accompanying table giving statistics on the religious denominations found throughout the German empire down to the Regierungsbezirk and Kreis governmental units. Place-names and political jurisdictions often change over time. A common challenge in genealogy is identifying the current name and jurisdiction of a family's place of origin in order to figure out where the records of births, deaths, and marriages of an earlier period are now being kept. Comparison of the Ravenstein atlas and a recently published atlas often provides the solution to this problem. Here's how it is done: First, one needs to locate the family's place of origin in the Ravenstein atlas by looking up the place-name in the gazetteer portion of the atlas and then finding the place on the map cited in the gazetteer entry. Second, by observing the nearby natural features (such as a river, lake, etc.) or the closest larger cities or towns, one can then turn to a recently published atlas and match up that same location. Third, now knowing the current jurisdiction and name of the family's place of origin, one can then use current government directories, genealogical handbooks or other reference tools to identify the appropriate governmental office, etc., for the genealogical records wanted.
• Density of distribution of the natives of the Germanic nations: 1890 
  Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
• East and West Prussia Gazetteer 
• Falk Online 
  Online maps of major German cities, trip planning, and atlas.
• Genealogy Unlimited - Maps and Atlases from Europe 
  Maps and atlases from Poland, Prussia, and Germany.
• GEOserv - a German town locator / Ein Service um Städte in Deutschland zu finden
• GermanNames - Shareware for German Genealogy 
  Surname maps of modern Germany based on telephone directories.
• Germans in America - 1914 Map 
  From the Library of Congress.
• GOV - Suchergebnis 
  German genealogical town database.
• How to Use the Meyers Gazetteer 
• How to Use the Württemberg Gazetteer 
• An Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of the localities in Poland & Russia 
• Map List 
  For Germany from WorldGenWeb.
  • The German Confederation 1815-1871 
• Map of Baden 
• Map of the United States: German Ancestry 
  From the University of Minnesota.
• Mecklenburg Gazetteer & 1819 Census Guide  ~ Germany
  Genealogical guide for research in Mecklenburg. Includes gazetteer of all place names in Mecklenburg.
• Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs 
  A book by Raymond Wright III.
• Origins Genealogy Book Store: Historic Maps and Atlases of Germany 
• Origins Genealogy Book Store: Present Day Maps and Atlases of Germany 
• Ostpreußen - Ortsnamen und Wohnplätze 
• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Germany Maps 
  From the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Ancient Germania 
  • Germany 
  • Munich 1858 
  • Nuremberg 1858 
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: German Maps 
  German maps of Prussian-Poland, the German Empire and Schleswig-Holstein.
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: German Gazetteers 
  Complete genealogical gazetteers giving the Lutheran and Catholic parishes and other record offices for each town in: Bavaria, East & West Prussia, Hohenzollern, Hessen-Darmstadt, Hessen-Nassau, Mecklenburg, and Waldeck.
• Stadtplan-Service, Stadt information und Wirtshafts information für ganz Deutschland 
  Detailed street maps of German towns and villages.

Military

• Battle of the River Plate 
• Germans in the American Civil War 
• Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) 
  Organization for the notification of next-of-kin of members of the former German Wehrmacht who were killed in action.
  • History 
  • Information Assets 
• AMREV-HESSIAN 
  The loyal German auxiliary soldiers of King George III, who settled in America after the American Revolution (1776-1783).
  • The Hessians and the American Revolution 
  • Resource Information 
• The Hessians and the Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War 
  Online edition of the 1884 original.
• Imperial German Army - Pre 1914 
  Including orders of battle, names of officers, and some photos.
• Internment of German Americans in the United States During World War II 
• Langsdorff of the Graf Spee 
• The Prussian Machine 
  Images and profiles of Germany's military and political leadership during World War One. Includes details on structure of German Imperial Army, German order of battle, and details on selected Great War battles.
• World War II Internment Camps 
  From the Handbook of Texas Online.

Newspapers

• ABYZ News Links - Germany - Newspapers and News Sources 
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: German Newspapers in Genealogy (1780-1914) 
  Describes genealogical uses of German newspapers, availablity, and indexing projects.
• World-newspapers.com - German Newspapers 

Palatines

• Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration 
  A book by Walter Allen Knittle.
• Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration : A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Navel Stories 
  A book by Walter Allen Knittle.
• Even More Palatine Families : 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss, and Austrian Origins (3 volume set) 
  A book by Henry Z. Jones Jr.
• The Great Palatine Migration 
• Index To Palatine Passenger Lists 
• Irish Palatine Association 
  Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Preserving the history and genealogy of the Irish Palatines for future generations. Surnames include TESKEY, SWITZER, RUTTLE, DOUPE, LODWICK, SHIER, PIPER, BOVENIZER, FIZZELL, DULMAGE.
• Kraig Ruckel's Palatine & Pennsylvania-Dutch Genealogy Page 
• Mailing List(s):
  • IRL-PALATINE Mailing List 
    For anyone with a genealogical interest in the German Palatine immigrants to Ireland.
  • List of Palatines from Germany to England in 1709 
    Lists of Palatines who went to England in 1709 and most then to America in 1710.
  • PALATINES Mailing List 
    For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the German Palatine and Palatine refugees who fled to Ireland and North America post 1709.
  • PFALZ Mailing List 
    For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Palatine of Germany (area now divided between Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen, formerly Bavaria's Rhenish Pfalz).
• Palatine Families of Ireland 
  A book by Hank J. Jones.
• The Palatine Families of New York : A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710 
  A book by Henry Z. Jones.
• Palatine Heritage Centre  ~ Rathkeale, Ireland
• Palatine History 
  From The Olive Tree.
• The Palatine Project 
  The Palatine Project is an attempt using sources from German speaking countries as well as early colonial American sources to reconstruct the passenger lists of Germans who came to America in the first large wave of emigration in the 18th century.
  • Articles 
    Articles pertaining specifically to 18th century German emigration research.
• Palatines, Liberty, and Property : German Lutherans in Colonial British America 
  A book by A. G. Roeber.
• Palatines to America  ~ Columbus, Ohio
  Dedicated to the study of ancestors from all German-speaking lands, not just the Palatinate.
• The Story of the Palatines : An Episode in Colonial History 
  A book by Sanford H. Cobb.

People & Families

• Carpathian German Homepage 
  History, culture and news of Carpathian Germans (Germans from Slovakia), with links to genealogical sites, museums, archives etc.
• Donauschwaben In The Banat, Including The Arader Land 
• Displaced Persons (DP) Camp 
  Personal histories, addresses, photos, e-mail inquiries and links. Nondenominational, all nationalities.
• Emigrants from Reimsbach to America, 1849-1889 
  In the years 1846 to 1889, 106 people emigrated from Reimsbach village in the southwest of Germany, which at that time had about 600 inhabitants.
• Geborener Deutscher 
  Quarterly newsletter that addresses the issues, interests and concerns of German-born adoptees and their birth/adoptive families.
• German Ancestors in the Batschka, Hungary 
• German Ancestors up to the Middle Ages 
  16,000 individuals, 4,800 surnames from all over Germany. Some lines reaching far into the Middle Ages. Main families: BERTHEAU, BROWN of Haddington, BRÜCKNER, FLIEDNER, GOETHE, GSCHNEIDINGER, JEITER, KRAUßE, KRÖNLEIN, SCHIELE.
• German-Jewish Special Interest Group (GerSig) 
  Links and data bases and a moderated discussion group on Jewish Genealogy in German-speaking regions, Europe & elsewhere.
• History of the Sorbs/Wends in Germany 
• Holy Roman Empire - The German Reigning Houses 
  German Rulers in 1815-2000.
• Links to Germany Royal and Nobility Genealogy Data 
• Mennonites 
  See this category on Cyndi's List for related links.
• Pommerscher Verein Freistadt 
  This site features descendants of immigrants from the State of Pommern, Prussia prior to 1945. It also includes a database of about 70,000 names.
• The Salzburgers 
  Early settlers in Georgia.
• Schöne Neue Welt Rheinländer erobern Amerika 
  Early emigration of Rhinelanders to Pennsylvania.
• WW-Person 
  A database of persons of German nobility.

Periodicals & Pamphlets

• Pomeranianews.com 
  Die Pommerschen Leute (The Pomeranian People) quarterly periodical. Includes examples of articles about Pomerania and research and how to subscribe. References to researching surnames in Die Vorfahren (ancesters).
• STAMMBAUM: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research 
• Wandering Volhynians 
  A Magazine for the Descendants of Germans From Volhynia and Poland.
• The Wind-Mill: A Periodical of Frisian/Germanic Heritage 

Professional Researchers, Volunteers & Other Research Services

• Ahnenerforschung.de 
  Research service for the Minden-Lübbecke, Schaumburg-Lippe & the Muensterland areas of Germany.
• Ahnenforschung Klatt - Recherchen in Berlin und Brandenburg / Research in Berlin and Brandenburg 
  Professional genealogical research by Heiko Klatt, Berlin.
• archivauskunft.de - Recherche & Redaktion in Berlin 
  Service for historical and genealogical research in middle and eastern Europe, Berlin, Germany.
• Arno Schmitt, Journalist from San Diego, California 
  He can help to find relatives, links or sources regarding ancestors by placing articles in German, Austrian and/or Swiss newspapers. For details, e-mail Arno at: reporter@adnc.com.
• Beyond History : A Journey to Your Heritage 
  Hamburg-based professional genealogical research service for Germany with a special focus on emigration research in the Hamburg passenger departure lists.
• Books from: Jacob Steigerwald, Translation & Interpretation Services 
  Banat/Danube Swabian books.
• Carpenter Genealogical Services  ~ Salt Lake City, Utah
  A professional genealogical research group in Salt Lake City specializing in the United States and Western Europe. Our focus is Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Colonial Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Wyoming, Nebraska and African American/Slavery research and slavery in the South. Western European limited to Germany, Switzerland, France, and the Scandanavian countries. Families of note: WINGET, HATHAWAY, AXTELL, CLUTTER, DOUD, LYTLE, BLEHSCHMIDT, EHMAN, HAGGSTROM.
• Emigration Research - Reinhard Hofer Finds Your Town of Origin in Germany 
• Emigration to America - Routes to the Roots 
  Genealogical travel service in Germany.
• European Focus 
  Photographic portfolios of ancestral towns in Europe created for Genealogy enthusiasts in Belgium, Denmark, Eastern Europe, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and more.
• eXpertGenealogy - Genealogy Professional Genealogist - Germany 
  Directory of professional genealogists specializing in Germany Research.
• eXpertGenealogy - Genealogy Professional Genealogist - Prussia 
  Directory of professional genealogists specializing in Prussian Research.
• Family History Research - USA - Germany 
  Research by Rick Ortenburger.
• Family Searching Service 
  Dr. Anna L. SEEGEBRECHT from Freiburg/Germany is offering professional services in genealogy. She has decades of experience in searching for information from church records.
• Genealogical Research 
  The Netherlands and Germany.
• Genealogical Research in Schleswig-Holstein 
• Genealogie BORK / Genealogical Research 
  Professional genealogical research in the northern districts of Lower Saxony including translation of documents.
• Genealogy Germany 
  Professional research in Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Hessen, Baden, Nordrhein, Luxemburg, Alsace-Lorraine.
• Genealogy in Schleswig-Holstein / Genealogie in Schleswig-Holstein 
  Professional research by Hans Peter Voss.
• Genealogy Professional Beyond History - Emigration and German Research: Andrea Bentschneider Genealogist 
• genealogyPro - Professional Genealogists for Germany 
• German Genealogical Research Manager and Sightseeing Tour Guide in Erfurt 
  Tours and advice for visitors in Erfurt, Germany as well as throughout the German province of Thuringia.
• German Genealogical Research Service 
  Professional genealogical research in Germany, especially in South Germany (Bayern, Baden, Württemberg, Hessen). Emigration and surname databases that will be built up regularly.
• German Genealogical Research Services - Dr. Volker Jarren 
  Professional German historian and genealogist with many years of experience.
• German Research and Translation 
  Services and books supporting German family history research by Roger P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G.
• German Translation Service, translators of the Old German Scripts 
• Germany - Personal Heritage Trips 
  Individual trips in Germany for genealogists and others seeking to visit their ancestors' origins.
• GHS Genealogisch-Historischer Service / Genealogical Historical Services 
  Hamburg-based emigration research - genealogy with historical background.
• Heraldik, Genealogie, Namendeutung, Ahnenforschung, Ahnentafel, Stammbaum, Familienwappen 
  Heraldry in German-speaking areas, genealogy, name-histories.
• Heritage Trips in Germany 
  A Personal Heritage Trip in Germany is planned to your specific wishes - we go where you want to go. All arrangements are made in advance and full service is included - from pickup at airport to individual requirements. Local contacts and research can give you amazing progress on finding out more about your ancestors.
• Hintelers Homepage 
  Research service in Westphalia, Germany.
• Historical Family Research 
  Reinhard Hofer finds your town of origin in Germany. New compiled list of ca. 3,000 emigrants from Bavaria to USA in the period 1830 to 1914. Collection of contemporary emigrant literature.
• Historical Research Services 
  Professional Genealogical Research in North Germany, mainly in Hannover and Vorpommern. Research at parish registers, civil records, old newspapers and military records. Complete documentation and reference to all relevant records and archives.
• Historic Emigration Office 
  Will search the Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists for a fee.
• IHFF Genealogie Gesellschaft mbH 
  Professional Researcher specializing in: Austria, Czech & Slovak Republics, Hungary, Slovenian Republic, Croatia, Galicia, others.
• Imprimatur 
  Professional genealogical research specializing in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and other German speaking countries.
• Jigsaw Genealogy 
  Research service in Leipzig Germany.
• Koellner Researching Family History 
  Manfred Koellner (BA), historian and professional genealogist in Westphalia and Lippe, Germany. Researching family history in German archives.
• Mark Windover's Web Page - Quality Professional Genealogical Research  ~ Williamstown, Massachusetts
  United States, Canada (including French), England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Iceland, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium, and The Netherlands.
• The Ortenburger and Hackstock Family Home Page 
  German and United States family history research performed by Rick Ortenburger.
• Ostpreussen, Ermland Family Roots 
  A genealogy site devoted to Ermland, East Prussian descendants, primarily the search for the ancestors from the area around Heilsberg and surrounding areas within Ermland. Site includes links and e-mail address's to other Ermland researchers.
• Professional Genealogist for the United States, Sweden and Brazoria County, Texas - Linda Barney 
  A professional genealogist specializing in Acadian-Cajun, Swedish and German research.
• Professional Genealogist, Richard M. Pope 
  Specializing in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York City, Germany.
• Professional Genealogist Serving Westphalia - Katrin Schuelke  ~ Westphalia, Germany
  Research in Westphalia: counties of Arnsberg, Detmold and Muenster.
• Professional Scandanavian Genealogist - Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Germany 
  Research services.
• Pro Heraldica - Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Heraldik und Genealogie mbH 
  German firm for heraldic and genealogical research.
• Rootdigger - Emigrants Database - Genealogy Schleswig-Holstein 
  Professional genealogical research in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Plenty of free info about history, people, archives, regions, and names. Historical maps. Emigrants' database, thousands of people, steadily growing.
• SearchingForYou.org International Tracing Services and Genealogy 
  Professional people search services, based in Germany.
• Suchdienste in Deutschland / Tracing Services in Germany 
  Information and links to tracing services for locating German war dead.
• Synergia Genealogy Research 
  Specialized for on-site research of: Vojvodina = Banat + Backa (Batschka) + Srem (Syrmien), Bács-Bodrog, Szerém, Torontál, Temes, Slavonia, Bosna (Bosnien), Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, Donauschwaben, Banat Schwaben, Donau Germans.
• Taxodium. Familienforschung in Berlin und Brandenburg / Family Research in Berlin and Brandenburg 
  Professional genealogist Marc Jarzebowski specializing in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia.
• Tempi Passati - Service for Genealogy Research 
  Professional research in Germany especially in South Germany, Westphalia and Rhineland by Sibylle Peine.
• Verband deutschsprachiger Berufsgenealogen - Association of German Speaking Professional Genealogists 
  Website of German speaking professional genealogists. Including all countries, where people speak German or have spoken in former times.

Publications, Software & Supplies

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Germany 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • Banat-Topola's Schwaben: 1791-1945 
    A book by Jacob Steigerwald.
  • Barefoot in the Rubble 
    A book by Elizabeth B. Walter.
  • Catholic Germans from Russia (Krasna, Bessarabia, Russia) in South-Central North Dakota, 1890-1990, statistical compendium 
    A book by Ted J. Becker.
  • Dictionary of German Names 
    A book by Hans Bahlow.
  • Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames 
    A book by Lars Menk.
  • Donauschwabische Gedankenskizzen Aus USA: Reflections of Danube Swabians in America 
    A book by Jacob Steigerwald.
  • DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951 
    A book by Mark Wyman.
  • Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration 
    A book by Walter Allen Knittle.
  • Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration : A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Navel Stories 
    A book by Walter Allen Knittle.
  • Early Nineteenth Century German Settlers in Ohio 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Other States/A-J 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio, Kentucky and Other States/K-Z 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • East Prussians from Russia 
    A book by Michael J. Anuta.
  • Emigrants from Fellbach, 1735-1930 (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany) 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldengurg, 'Now Niedersachen', Germany: Mainly to the United States, 1830-1849 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • Even More Palatine Families : 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss, and Austrian Origins (3 volume set) 
    A book by Henry Z. Jones Jr.
  • Finding Your German Ancestors : A Beginner's Guide 
    A book by Kevan M. Hansen.
  • Friedrichstal Church Records, 1698-1812 
    A book by Cathryn S. Dippo.
  • From Knights to Pioneers: One German Family in Westphalia and Missouri  
    A book by Anita M. Mallinckrodt.
  • Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Germanic Ancestors 
    A book by Chris Anderson.
  • The German Allied Troops in the North American War of Independence, 1776-1783 
    A book by Max Von Eelking.
  • The German-American Experience 
    A book by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.
  • German American Family Album 
    A book by Dorothy Hoobler.
  • The German-American Forty-Eighters, 1848-1998 
    A book by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.
  • German Casualties of the Seven Weeks' War (1866 and the Franco-Prussian War) 
    A book by Maralyn A. Wellauer.
  • German Church Books: Beyond the Basics 
    A book by Kenneth L. Smith.
  • German Food & Folkways: Heirloom Memories from Europe, South Russia, & the Great Plains 
    A book by R. M. H. Gueldner.
  • Germanic Genealogy: A Guide To Worldwide Sources And Migration Patterns 
    A book by Edward R. Brandt.
  • German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854 
    A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
  • German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867 
    A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
  • German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1868-1871 
    A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
  • German Immigrant Servant Contracts: Registered at the Port of Philadelphia, 1817-1831 
    A book by Farley Grubb.
  • The German Research Companion 
    A book by Shirley J. Riemer.
  • German Revolutionists of 1848: Among Whom Many Immigrants to America  
    A book by Westland Publications.
  • German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways 
    A book by Ken Luebbering.
  • The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch 
    A book by Oscar Kuhns.
  • Germans in Wisconsin 
    A book by Richard H. Zeitlin & Frederick Hale.
  • Germans & Texans: Commerce, Migration and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic 
    A book by Walter Struve.
  • The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783 
    A book by George F. Jones.
  • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports 
    A series of books by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby.
    • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports : July 1887-April 1888 
    • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports : May 1888-November 1888 
    • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports : December 1, 1888-June 30, 1889 
    • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports : July 1889-April 1890 
    • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports May 1890-November 1890 
    • Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports December 1890-May 1891 
  • Germany's Regional Recipes 
    A book by Helga Hughes.
  • Hesse-Hanau Order Books A Diary and Roster: A Collection of Items Concerning the Hesse-Hanau Contingent of "Hessians" Fighting Against the American Colonists in the Revolutionary War 
    A book by Bruce E. Burgoyne.
  • The Hessians 
    A book by Rodney Atwood.
  • The Hessians in the Revolutionary War 
    A book by Edward J. Lowell.
  • The Hessians of Nova Scotia 
    A book by Johannes Helmut Merz.
  • The Hessians of Upper Canada 
    A book by Johannes Helmut Merz.
  • Historical Atlas of East Central Europe 
    A book by Paul Robert Magocsi.
  • Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans 
    A book by Albert Kern.
  • How They Came: German Immigration from Prussia to Missouri 
    A book by Anita M. Mallinckrodt.
  • If I Can Decipher Germanic Records, So Can You 
    A book by Edna Bentz.
  • Indentured to Liberty: Peasant Life and the Hessian Military State, 1688-1815 
    A book by Peter K. Taylor.
  • In Search of Your German Roots : A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in the Germanic Areas of Europe 
    A book by Angus Baxter.
  • Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Angelika G. Ellmann-Kruger & Edward David Luft.
  • Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs 
    A book by Raymond Wright III.
  • New Homes in a New Land German Immigration to Texas, 1847-1861 
    A book by Ethel H. Geue.
  • New Land Beckoned German Immigration to Texas 
    A book by Chester Geue.
  • Nineteenth-Century Emigration from the Siegkreis (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Mainly to the United States) 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • Nineteenth-Century Emigration of 'Old Lutherans' from Eastern Germany (Mainly Pomerania and Lower Silesia to Australia, Canada, and the United) 
    A book by Clifford N. Smith.
  • Palatine Families of Ireland 
    A book by Hank J. Jones.
  • The Palatine Families of New York : A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710 
    A book by Henry Z. Jones.
  • Palatines, Liberty, and Property : German Lutherans in Colonial British America 
    A book by A. G. Roeber.
  • Papers Please!: Identity Documents, Permits and Authorizations of the Third Reich 
    A book by Ray Cowdery.
  • Passenger Liners from Germany, 1816-1990 
    A book by Clas Broder Hansen.
  • Poland-Prussia : How to Locate Vital Records of Former Prussian Areas of Poland in the Genealogical Library 
    A book by Daniel Schlyter.
  • Prussian and Saxon Casualties of the Franco-Prussian War 
    A book by Maralyn A. Wellauer.
  • Register of German Military Men Who Remained in Canada after the American Revolution 
    A book by Johannes Helmut Merz.
  • Researching and Finding Your German Heritage 
    A book by Marilyn Lind.
  • Stammbaum 4.0 in Stichworten 
    Genealogy software for Windows.
  • The Story of the Palatines : An Episode in Colonial History 
    A book by Sanford H. Cobb.
  • A Student's Guide to German American Genealogy 
    A book by Gregory Robl.
  • Tracing Romania's Heterogeneous German Minority from Its Origins to the Diaspora 
    A book by Jacob Steigerwald.
  • Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America 
    A book by Marianne S. Wokeck.
  • Valley of the Shadow: After the Turmoil, My Heart Cries No More 
    A book by Erich Anton Helfert.
  • The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the History of Prussia 
    A book by James Charles Roy.
  • Welschneureut Church Records, Welschneureut, Germany, 1700-1809 
    A book by Cathryn S. Dippo.
  • Why They Left: German Immigration from Prussia to Missouri 
    A book by Anita M. Mallinckrodt.
  • Wuerttemberg Emigration Index 
    A CD-ROM by Ancestry.
  • Wuerttemberg Emigration Index (Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, Vol 7 
    A book by Trudy Schenk.
  • Wuerttemberg Emigration Index (Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, Vol 8) 
    A book by Trudy Schenk.
• The Best Books on German Passenger Liners 
• Books We Own - Germany 
  Find a book from which you would like a lookup and click on the submitter's code at the end of the entry. Once you find the contact information for the submitter, write them a polite request for a lookup. Be sure to follow the Tips for making a request . See also the Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright page and please also consider reading through: How to Contribute to Books We Own.
• Brother's Keeper Software 
  Downloadable shareware program for Windows. The latest version contains English, French, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, Polish, Icelandic, Russian, Slovak, Afrikaans, Czech.
• DYNAS-TREE  ~ Win95 or NT
  In German or English, DYNAS-TREE is a full featured genealogy program. The latest version (220) generates private genealogical web sites.
• East Frisians in America 
  Books for sale.
• Family Tree Press - German Genealogy Records 
  The German Researcher and Deciphering Gothic Records - research guides.
• fampres - genealogische Darstellungen / high-quality family presentation 
  Uniquely designed family posters (wall charts up to 42" * 30 feet, full color and b.w.) Not restricted to any degree of family complexity up to about 1500 people arbitrarily related to each other.
• Fzip Family Tree  ~ Windows
  Download the latest version for windows, includes program and help files. Disc available in English, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Afrikaans & Icelandic. Fzip is a user friendly, but professional program which can display your family tree in any of 24 different report styles.
• Genealogical.com - Germany/German 
  The online store of Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. & Clearfield Company.
  • Address Book for Germanic Genealogy 
    A book by Ernest Thode.
  • Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration 
    A book by Walter Allen Knittle.
  • East Prussians from Russia 
    A book by Michael J. Anuta.
  • German-American Names 
    A book by George F. Jones.
  • German-English Genealogical Dictionary 
    A book by Ernest Thode.
  • German Genealogy Research Guide 
    A CD-ROM by Genealogical.com.
  • German Immigrant Servant Contracts 
    A book by Farley Grubb.
  • German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, With Places of Origin 
    A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
  • German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, With Places of Origin 
    A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
  • Germans to America 
    A book by Ira A. Glazier.
  • German and Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s 
    A CD-ROM by Genealogical.com.
  • Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers 
    A book by H. Frank Eshleman.
  • Hiwwe-wie-Driwwe.de 
    Privatarchiv Pennsylvaniadeutscher Literatur / Private Archive of Pennsylvania German Literature. The only Pennsylvania German magazine which is published completely in the dialect. Topics: language, genealogy, tourism, Palatine language, folk culture and more.
  • In Search of Your German Roots 
    A book by Angus Baxter.
  • Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs 
    A book by Raymond S. Wright III.
  • Pennsylvania German Church Records 
    A book by Don Yoder.
  • Pennsylvania German Church Records, 1729-1870 
    A CD-ROM by Genealogical.com .
  • Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 
    A book by Don Yoder.
  • Rhineland Emigrants 
    A book by Don Yoder.
  • The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and Creoles of German Descent  
    A book by J. Hanno. Deiler.
  • Where to Look for Hard-to-Find German-Speaking Ancestors in Eastern Europe 
    A book by Bruce Brandt.
• Genealogiebedarf Heraldikshop 
  Software, books, charts, etc. Vendor in Germany.
• Genealogy Unlimited - Home Page 
  Maps, books & supplies for sale.
• Genius Family Tree  ~ Windows
  "The easy genealogy program."
• GENTREE Genealogical Navigation Software 
  Genealogy shareware for Windows9x. French, English, German, Italian, Catalan versions.
• Global Genealogy & History Shoppe - Germany 
• Hamburg Emigration List Name Permutations 
  Software for sale which generates alternate spellings of surnames.
• Heritage Books: German 
• Higginson Book Company - Germany 
• Hope Farm Books - Palatines/Huguenots 
• Interlink Bookshop Genealogical Services  ~ Victoria, B.C., Canada
• Neuerscheinungen Ortsfamilienbücher und Häuserchroniken seit 1999 
  Bibliography of local family reconstitutions (containing all families of a German speaking village or town in Central Europe) published since 1999.
• Origins Genealogy Book Store: German (Books in English) 
  German genealogy research books.
• Origins Genealogy Book Store: German (Books in German) 
  German books for genealogy research.
• Origins Genealogy Book Store: German Maps & Facts for Genealogy 
• Origins Genealogy Book Store: Life in Germany (reprint) 
  Reprint publication of life in Germany in 1842, 1844 and 1901.
• Ortsfamilienbuch Kaimen / Labiau 
  Information on the church of Kaimen near Labiau in East Prussia.
• Ostfriesen in Amerika / East Frisians in America 
  A book with extracts from the Ostfriesische Nachrichten (published in Breda, Iowa). The author is attempting to locate missing issues of the newspaper from between 1916 and 1972.
• Picton Press - German-Speaking 
• PRO-GEN Genealogie àla Carte 
  Dutch genealogy program capable of outputs in Dutch, English, French, Frisian and German.
• Sacramento German Genealogy Society - Publications and Research 
  Der Blumenbaum, Descriptive Catalog of German Research Resources, The "German Card" and The German Handshake Packet.
• Verlag Degener & Co. 
  German publisher of genealogy books.
• We Will Go to a New Land - The Great East Frisian Migration to America 1845-1895 
  A book for sale by Robert H. Behrens. A tool for the German/Ostfriesen genealogist that has an index with thousands of names.
• WinFamily - Anvend Winfamily fra Jamodat til din slektsgransking 
  Genealogy software available in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, French, German and English.

Queries, Message Boards & Surname Lists

• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Germany 
• Eastern European Surname Researchers 
  Russia, Poland, Germany, Slovakia and more.
• Die Elbing-Seite - Forum 
  For the former West Prussian county Elbing or current Polish province of Elblag.
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Query System 
• Nordrhein-Westfalen GermanyGenWeb - Index to Surnames, Queries, Researchers and Databases 

Records: Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes and Vital
(Born, Married, Died & Buried)

Cemeteries

• Frankfurt Kinderfeld 
  The Frankfurt (Germany) Kinderfeld (Kinderfield) contains the remains of about 150 American military dependent children, mostly newborns, in a cemetery near Frankfurt, Germany. The site includes a reading of the cemetery.
• Hamburger Friedhof  ~ Hamburg
  • Ohlsdorf Friedhofsplan 
    Map of the cemetery.
  • Grabstätten bekannter Persönlichkeiten 
    Name index and plot locations for prominent individuals.
• Historische Friedhöfe in Berlin / Historic Cemeteries in Berlin 
• Jewish Cemeteries  ~ Hamburg
• Jüdischer Friedhof - Hamburg/Altona  ~ Germany
  Photos of the old jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Altona.
• Saving Graves - Germany 
• Stones of Faith - Pennsylvania Germans and their Gravestones 
  Last name indext to 35 cemeteries from 7 counties & 600 photographs. Also includes an examination of their gravestone symbols.
• Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. 
  The German Military Grave Registration Service. Maintains 2 million war graves in over 640 cemeteries. Assists in grave identification and restoration. Provides assistance in determining the fate of German war dead.
  • Vermissten und Toten Datenbank 
    The Missing and Dead Database. Online searchable database of over 2 million interments.
• Waldfriedhof Interments 
  The "Kindergraves", graves of 451 American military dependent children, mostly newborns, between 1952 and 1971, at the city cemetery (Waldfriedhof, Stadtfriedhof) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. This site includes a reading of the cemetery.

Census

• Mecklenburg Census Records, 1751 

Emigration

• Ancestry.com - Baden, Germany Emigration Index, 1866-1911 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. This database contains the names of over 28,000 persons who left Baden between 1866 and 1911. Each entry includes the emigrant's name, residence or place of birth, and the year of departure. Original source: adishen Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe. Auswanderer, 1866-1911. Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Microfilm of card index by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976-1978.
• Ancestry.com - Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records (Auswanderungsakten Brandenburg, Preußen) 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. This database contains 17,500 names of emigrants leaving Brandenburg. Each record provides the emigrant's name, age, occupation, residence, destination and year of emigration. Original source: Auswanderungskartei (emigration cards) located at Brandenburgishes Landeshauptarchiv in Potsdam, Germany or Family History Library microfiche #6109219-6109220 (54 total fiches).
• Ancestry.com - Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 / Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Database includes images of all the passenger lists digitized from microfilm in partnership with the Hamburg State Archive. Also includes a partial index, covering the years 1890-1913, created by the archive. Original data: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Bestand: 373-7 I, VIII (Auswanderungsamt I). Mikrofilmrollen K 1701 - K 2008, S 17363 - S 17383, 13116 - 13183.
• Ancestry.com - Wuerttemberg, Germany Emigration Index 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. This database contains the names of approximately 60,000 persons who made application to emigrate at Wuerttemberg from the late eighteenth century to 1900. The information supplied on each person includes: name, date and place of birth, residence at time of application and application date, and microfilm number. Original source: Schenk, Trudy. Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. Vol. I-VIII. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Ancestry, Inc., 1986.
• BallinStadt Hamburg - "Port of Dreams" 
  A museum located on the grounds of the former ‘Emigrants’ Halls’.
• Bremen Passenger Lists 1920 - 1939 
  Online searchable database of passenger lists.
• Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank / German Emigrants Database 
  From the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven. Intends to provide a searchable database of all European emigrants who emigrated to North America from German ports between 1820 and 1939. Sources are passenger lists. Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee.
• Emigration Port Hamburg 
  Excellent online presentation of why Hamburg was a major port of departure for immigrants, how the were treated, what they faced, and how the process of departure worked.
• Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 
• Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850–1934 Resource Guide 
• Index To Palatine Passenger Lists 
• ISTG - Bremen Departures 
  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild and Die Maus Genealogical Society of Bremen Germany.
• Names of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Emigrants 1844-1915 
• Olive Tree Genealogy: Search Engines for Ships Passenger Lists from Germany 
  Custom Search Engine allows you to search multiple Internet sites for Passenger Lists of ships sailing from Germany to North America.
• Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists, Germans & Swiss to America 
• Palatine Ships Passenger Lists from Germany to Pennsylvania 1727 to 1808 
  Search ships passenger lists carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Read an explanation of Palatines and their ordeal.
• Pennsylvania German Pioneers Online Passenger Lists | Palatine Ships 
  Passenger lists of the ships carrying German immigrants to Philadelphia 1727-1808.
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: Hamburg Passenger List 1872 
  Index to the 1872 passenger lists from Hamburg, extracted by volunteers at the Family History Library.
• Research Access & Background Information for LDS Family History Library Microfilms of the Baden Emigration Index 
• Ship General Briggs carrying Germans to New York 1851 
  View images of the passenger list. This passenger list is part of the unindexed New York arrival years.
• Ship Passenger Lists of the Palatine Germans to Pennsylvania 
  Search passenger lists for German-speaking German, Swiss, Dutch and French (Palatine) immigrants (1727-1808) both on-site and across the internet. Includes a history of Palatines to America.
• Texas Tortuga Press 
  Online searchable index of surnames and ship names for immigration from Germany to Texas 1865-1869.

Miscellaneous

• Amtliches Deutsches Ortsbuch für das Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren / Local book for Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia 
  Czech, Protektorat, Bohemia, Moravia, villages, towns, districts, maps.
• Fraktur, Geburts, and Taufscheins
  Decorative writings used to commemorate events such as births by the Pennsylvania Dutch. For genealogists, these examples of folk art can be used as alternatives to official birth records. Fraktur is the writing style, Geburts are birthday certificates, and Taufscheins are baptism certificates. They are generically referred to as fraktur.
  • 19th Century Fraktur In Lancaster 
    Article about an exhibit of Fraktur at the Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
  • Dietrich Taufschein 1839 
  • Fraktur 
    From the Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.
  • Fraktur: Folk Art and Family 
    Article on the history of Fraktur.
  • Fraktur: Folk Art and Family 
    A book by Corinne P. Earnest.
  • Frakturschriften (1762 - 1878) of the German-American Imprint Collection 
    From the Franklin & Marshall College Archives and Special Collections.
  • Frakturs sent to the Federal Government as support for Pension and Bounty-Land Applications 
    Enter "NWCTB-15-NM22E19" in the first keyword box From the National Archives and Records Administration's NAIL Digital Copies database, there are 166 documents from the case files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants based on Revolutionary War Service. These frakturs are they are beautifully scanned examples and show that our ancestors also appreciated their genealogical value.
  • German-American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition : Unpublished Birth and Baptism Certificates and Bible Records Volume 1 
    A book by Beverly R. Hoch.
  • German-American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition Volume 2 
    A book by Corinne P. Earnest.
  • German American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition Volume 3 
    A book by Russell D. Earnest.
  • Genealogist Guide to Fraktur for Genealogical Research 
    A book by Russell D. Earnest.
  • Gottschall Fraktur Sells for $101,000 
    News item regarding the collectability of Fraktur.
  • Joseph Schneider Haus On-Line Collections  ~ Waterloo, Ontario
    • Fraktur - Lincoln County 
    • Fraktur - Pennsylvania 
    • Fraktur - Waterloo County - Abraham Latschaw 
    • Fraktur - Waterloo County - Anna Weber 
    • Fraktur - Waterloo County - Isaac Z. Hunsicker 
    • Fraktur - Waterloo County - Joseph D. Bauman 
    • Fraktur - Waterloo County - Wilhelm Gerhard 
    • Fraktur - Waterloo County - Other/Unknown Artists 
    • Fraktur - Other/Unknown Origin 
  • Major Fraktur Discovery  
    From the Maine Antique Digest.
  • Nagel Taufschein 1807 
  • Ontario Fraktur 
    A book by Michael S. Bird.
  • Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur Gallery 
    Exquisite fraktur images. These historic images clearly show the artistic and genealogical value of fraktur.
  • Pennsylvania Dutch Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Fraktur 
  • The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission - Publications Catalog for Arts & Decorative Arts 
    Several books on Fraktur available from the PHMC.
  • A Taufschein (baptismal certificate) from 1807 
    From the Library of Congress.
  • Taufscheine/Fraktur 
    From the Historical Society of Berks County Pennsylvania.
• KinQuest.com : Genealogy Resources - German Family Register Extraction Form 
  Download a form to use when extracting information from family registers found in 19th Century German church record books.
• ProGenealogists, Inc.: German Street Guides 
  Genealogical guides listing the parish and civil registration offices for each street address in the cities of Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Magdeburg and Stettin.
• Rheinhessenarchiv - Genealogischer Arbeitskreis Rheinhessen 
  A group working to transcribe all churchbooks of Rheinhessen (Rheinland-Pfalz) and to give help to others to find their ancestors in Rheinhessen.

Obituaries

Vital Records: Birth, Marriage, Death

• Family Search Record Search 
  Millions of indexed records and images of records. Join volunteers around the world who are helping to make more free records available online through FamilySearch Indexing.
  • Germany Baptisms 1700-1900 
  • Germany Burials 1500-1900 
  • Germany Marriages 1700-1900 
  • Germany, Brandenburg, Church Book Duplicates, 1800-1874 
    Images of baptism, marriage, and death entries from the state copies of some parish registers.
  • Germany, Posen, Church Book Duplicates, 1800-1874 
    Images of baptism, marriage, and death entries from the state copies of some parish registers.
• Marriages in Plauschwarren, East Prussia 1778-1802 
• Search Weil im Schoenbuch Marriages  ~ Württemberg, Germany
  More than 1700 marriage records have been extracted from the Evangelical (Lutheran) church in Weil im Schoenbuch, Württemberg, Germany, from 1591 to 1705. There are 6400 names and more than 450 different German, Swiss, Austrian and French towns in this database.
• The Town of Zeitz 
  Birth, christening, marriage and death records of St. Michael's, Zeitz, Sachsen, Prussia from 1799 to 1874.
• Western Europe Vital Records Index 
  CD-ROM for sale from the LDS Church. More than 12 million christenings, births, and marriages from selected localities in these Western European countries: Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany (including Baden, Bayern [Bavaria], Hessen-Darmstadt, Lippe, Oldenburg, Pruessia, Turinga, Wuerttemburg), Italy, and Spain. The years for these events range between the 1500s to 1905.

Religion

• Baptistische Archivalien 
• Erzbistum Berlin 
  • Das Diözesanarchiv 
• Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz 
  • Landeskirchliches Archiv 
• Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland 
• Evangelisches Zentral Archiv in Berlin 
  Founded as a result of the joining of the Archive of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) and the Archive of the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU). The Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) is itself a union of all the Protestant churches in the several German states, creating an alliance of independent churches of the various Protestant denominations. The Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU) is the successor organization of the Prussian State Church.
  • Genealogy 
    • Addresses 
      Storage locations of parish registers, information, copies and picturizations of parish registers.
    • Information for Beginners 
      Provides an example of how to research the church records.
  • Library 
    The library has holdings of about 70,000 volumes.
  • The Parish Register Repository 
    Administers and maintains about 7000 Parish Registers from Protestant parishes which belonged to the former eastern provinces of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union. These areas today belong to Poland, Russia, and Lithuania. Holds about 763 military church records of the Military Church Registers of the former Prussian army and the German Wehrmacht. Also holds about 70 Parish Registers from German-speaking congregations outside of Germany.
• Französischen Kirche in Berlin 
  • Das Hugenottenmuseum im Französischen Dom 
• German Lutheran Records in Chicago 
  Includes an indexed map of the Lutheran parishes in Chicago.
• Lutheran Records in East Prussia 
• Lutheran Records in West Prussia 
• North American Baptist Conference 
  • North American Baptist Conference History 
• Verband kirchlicher Archive 

Societies & Groups

• AGGSH - Arbeitsgruppe Genealogie Schleswig-Holstein / Genealogy Work Group Schleswig-Holstein 
  Informal association of historians and genealogists for transcribing the Schleswig-Holstein census & research of emigration.
• AKuFF-Arbeitskreis ungarndeutscher Familienforscher e.V. / German Family Tree Researchers' Society in Hungary 
  The AKuFF above all is an organization of German family tree researchers in Hungary, but it doesn't preclude the possibility of researching Hungarian or other nationalities. The main purpose of the society is to organize the researchers in this organization, promote the exchange of information by getting to know each other's research work, provide scientific background for the members and giving professional assistance necessary for research.
• Anglo-German Family History Society 
  For those who are interested in researching the genealogy or family history of people from the German-speaking parts of Europe.
• Anglo-German Family History Society - AG-FHS  ~ United Kingdom
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Familienforschung Westerwald / Westerwald Familyresearch Workgroup 
  Genealogical Society for the Westerwald Region of Germany - ArGeWe. The Westerwald Region is between the Rhine, Sieg and Lahn rivers not far from Koblenz/Rhine. mostly located in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate; some parts belong to Hessia and North-Rhine-Westphalia.
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für mitteldeutsche Familienforschung e.V. 
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft ostdeutscher Familienforscher e. V.  
• Arbeitskreis donauschwäbischer Familienforscher e.V. 
  The Working Group of Danube-Swabian Genealogists.
• Die Bessarabiendeutschen 
  Die Bessarabiendeutschen Landsmannschaft - Heimatmuseum - Hilfskomitee.
• Bukovina Society of the Americas 
  This website covers the migration of Germans from Rhine-Palatinate, Württemberg and the Bohemian Forest in the late 1700's and early 1800's when they were recruited/motivated to settle Bukovina (land of beech trees), then a sparsely populated crown land of the Aus­trian Hungarian Empire. After one or two generations in Bukovina, scarcity of land and the attraction of the new world countries again motivated a migration in the late 1800's to early 1900's. Kansas, Washington, Colorado, Illinois and New York were their main destinations in North America and Brazil was the major destination in South America. This website has rich content on the history, culture and genealogy of the Bukovina Germans.
• The Danube Swabian Association of Trenton, New Jersey 
• Deutsche Hugenotten-Gesellschaft e.V.  ~ Bad Karlshafen
• Die Maus e. V. - Gesellschaft fuer Familienforschung in Bremen 
  Die Maus e. V. - Family History and genealogical society of Bremen.
  • Researcher Database of the Maus e. V. members 
• DOMOWINA - Union of Lusatian Sorbs 
• Düsseldorfer Verein für Familienkunde e.V. / Duesseldorf Society for Family History 
  Aktuelles aus dem Duesseldorfer Verein, Veranstaltungen, Ahnenlisten, Software, FOKO-Datenbank usw.; Activities of the society, ancestor-lists, software, FOKO-database etc.
• East European Genealogical Society  ~ Winnipeg, Canada
• Emsland Heritage Society 
  For ALL those interested in the genealogies and histories of the people and towns of the area of Germany-bordering Netherlands>upper north west>North sea> Ems Canal. Towns include: Papenburg, Sögel, Werlte, Hüven, Stavern, Lähn, Spelle and others.
• Genealogical Association of English Speaking Researchers in Europe (GAESRE) 
  Dedicated to supporting genealogy research in Europe through direct member support, monthly meetings, a monthly newsletter, an annual conference, and maintenance of a genealogy library located near Mannheim, Germany.
• Genealogical Societies for Saxony - Regional and Local 
• Genealogische Gesellschaft Hamburg e.V. 
  Genealogical Society of Hamburg, Germany.
• Genealogische Vereine 
  Genealogy society home pages hosted by Genealogy.net.
• The German-Acadian Coast Historical & Genealogical Society   ~ Destrehan, Louisiana
• German-Bohemian Heritage Society  ~ New Ulm, Minnesota
• German Genealogy Group  ~ Plainview, New York
  An organization established to provide mutual support among those interested in researching their Germanic ancestors.
• German Historical Society of Rochester, New York 
• German Research Association, Inc. - GRA  ~ San Diego, California
  The Association, founded in 1977, has more than 600 members, living throughout the United States & abroad. A do-it-yourself group, GRA's goal is to help and encourage members in their own research. Publishes the "German Connection".
• German Society of Pennsylvania 
• Germanic Genealogy Society  ~ Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Gesellschaft für Familienforschung in Franken e.V. / Society for Family Research in Franconia 
  Franken, Franconia, Nuremberg, Germany, Bavaria, archives in Franconia.
• HEROLD. Verein für Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Berlin e. V., gegründet 1869 
  German main society for heraldry.
• Immigrant Genealogical Society Library  ~ Burbank, California
• Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Germany 
  Jurisdictions for the IOOF, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs.
• Irish Palatine Association 
  Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Preserving the history and genealogy of the Irish Palatines for future generations. Surnames include TESKEY, SWITZER, RUTTLE, DOUPE, LODWICK, SHIER, PIPER, BOVENIZER, FIZZELL, DULMAGE.
• Johannes SCHWALM Historical Association 
  Society dedicated to Hessians staying in the US after the Revolutionary War.
• Kindertransport Association 
  Organization of child holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.
• The Order of the Sons of Hermann in the State of Texas 
  Fraternal benefits society originally for German immigrants.
  • History 
• Ostfriesen Genealogical Society of Minnesota - Genealogy for Ostfriesland, Germany 
• Palatines to America  ~ Columbus, Ohio
  Dedicated to the study of ancestors from all German-speaking lands, not just the Palatinate.
• Pommerscher Verein Freistadt / Pomeranian Society of Freistadt  ~ Germantown, Wisconsin
• Sacramento German Genealogy Society  ~ California
• SAGA-OMII Genealogical Association 
  Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association centered around Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, focusing on mostly Swiss Mennonite descendants.
• Silesian Genealogy Society 
• Silesian Genealogical Society  ~ Wroclaw, Poland
• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe 
  Devoted to the study of those people with German ancestry (generally of the Lutheran, Baptist, or Catholic faiths) who lived in present-day Poland (including those lands known previously as West and East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania), and also those people who lived in the western part of present-day Ukraine, in the old pre-World War II province of Volhynia (generally from the city of Kiev on the east to the present-day Polish border on the west, and from the city of Zhitomir on the south to the city of Kowel on the north).
• Sons of Hermann  ~ Dallas, Texas
  Fraternal benefits society originally for German immigrants.
  • History 
• Utah German Genealogical Society 
• Verein fuer Genealogie in Nordwuerttemberg e.V. 
• Verein für Familienforschung in Ost- und Westpreußen 
• Verein für Familien - und Wappenkunde in Württemberg und Baden e.V. 
• Westfälische Gesellschaft für Genealogie und Familienforschung e.V. 

WorldGenWeb

• Germany Genealogy 
  • Baden-Württemberg 
  • Bayern (Bavaria) 
  • Berlin Stadt 
  • Brandenburg 
  • Bremen 
  • Hamburg 
  • Hessen 
  • Mecklenburg Vorpommern 
  • Nordrhein-Westfalen -- North Rhine-Westphalia 
  • Rheinland-Pfalz 
  • Saarland 
  • Sachsen-Anhalt 
  • Sachsen / Saxony 
  • Thüringen, Deutschland 

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