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German Genealogy Translations - Esther Bauer Ph.D

Deciphering and translation of all handwritten and typed old German records, including Jewish German records. Genealogy research and microfilm searches of German and Swiss church, Jewish, civil, and all other German genealogy or historical records.

German Genealogy Translations (Facebook)

German Names

Listen to how German first names are pronounced! You can listen to how the name might sound along with the countries that might also use that name.

German Script Alphabet Information

German Script Experts

Ute Brandenburg helps you trace German immigrants to their home towns, German research in US and Germany, advanced research strategies with DNA.

German Script Translations

Old German Script and Print Transcription and Translation Services by Wilma Hofmann.

German Study Group / German Words

Includes time keeping, occupations, illnesses, common genealogical words, and words used in official documents.

German Translator

Translation of 19th- and 20th-century handwritten correspondence, diaries.

German-English Genealogical Dictionary (Amazon)

A book by Ernest Thode.

German-English Illness Translations

German-English On-line Dictionary

Germanology Unlocked

Unlock the stories of your family’s past with German-English translations, courses, books, and more.

Google Translate

Enter text (copy & paste is easiest, if possible), translate a web page by entering a URL, or upload a document for translation: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

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.

i2OCR - Free Online German OCR

i2OCR is a free online Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that extracts German text from images and scanned documents so that it can be edited, formatted, indexed, searched, or translated.

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.

Journey into German Genealogy (YouTube)

Presentation by German Genealogy Translator Katherine Schober on Tips and Tools to Help You with German Genealogy and Old German Handwriting.

Language translate translation translations - Don Watson

Translation of modern print, Gothic printed script, and old script when legible. Translate letters to and from Germany, documents, certificates, newspaper articles, books, pamphlets, etc., from German to English and vice-versa.

Legacy QuickGuide: Deciphering Germanic Script: Common Words in Church Books $

The Deciphering Germanic Script: Common Words in Church Books Legacy QuickGuide