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Germany / Deutschland » Maps & Geography

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  • Ancestry.com - Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire / Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs $

    Original source: Erich Uetrecht. Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs. 5th Edition. Leipzig, Germany: Bibliographisches Institut, 1912-1913. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

    Maps for sale at various levels of detail from the German mapping authority.

  • Arcanum Maps - The Historical Map Portal - Europe in the XIX. century

    Maps of Europe in the 1800s. Includes maps of Europe, city maps, country maps, and cadastral maps.

  • 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.

  • Atlas of Germany

    From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.

  • Falk Online

    Online maps of major German cities, trip planning, and atlas.

  • Family Roots Publishing Co. - German Map Guides FREE

    Catalog to hardback, paperback, and PDF versions of the map guides for historic German areas.

  • GenWiki - GEOserv

    GeoServ is an older project of the Verein für Computergenealogie, but it will not be updated any further. It is intended to help you find places, towns, postcodes and other information about towns and villages in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany. A database with over 50,000 entries is used, the basis of which is a postcode book of the former Deutsche Bundespost. GeoServ is no longer updated and maintained, as genealogical location information is now more comprehensively contained in the GOV database.

  • GenWiki - GOV - Geschichtliches Ortsverzeichnis / Historic Gazetteer

    GOV – das Geschichtliche Ortsverzeichnis – ist die Ortsdatenbank des Vereins für Computergenealogie. In the course of time, the GOV should develop into a tool for genealogists, historians and sociologists that allows uniform access to a large number of location-related data, especially for information that is important in family research.

  • Geogen Surname Mapping

    Create maps which show the distribution of surnames in Germany. Geogen V4, a newer 3D version is located at http://geogen.stoepel.net.

  • GermanNames - Shareware for German Genealogy

    Surname maps of modern Germany based on telephone directories.

  • Germans in America - 1914 Map

    From the Library of Congress.

  • HGIS Germany - Historisches Informationssystem der deutschen Staatenwelt 1820-1914

    Historic information system with a lot of maps on the development of the German federation between 1820 and 1914. German system, but also an English user interface.

  • Historische Karten und Pläne

    From the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin.

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