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5 Secret Transcription Tips from a German Genealogy Translator

Need help transcribing your German documents? Check out how you can use your own computer to make your work faster and easier with these 5 tips.

Church Record Translations

Latin, Hungarian and Slovak translations to English of church records for baptism, marriage, and death records. Also includes a list of Latin and Hungarian terms for occupations and causes of death.
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Danish State Archives - Genealogical Dictionary

English translation of Danish terms for most family relationships, as well as some of the words you will encounter most frequently in genealogical sources.

Danish-English Genealogy Dictionary

FamilySearch Wiki - Category:Word List

This category is for articles that were once Family History Library publications called Genealogical Word Lists which gave English meanings of about 900 key terms for different languages. Word lists also discuss spelling and alphabetical order, calendar terms, numbers, as well as the vocabulary from genealogical documents.

FamilySearch Wiki - German Word List

FamilySearch Wiki - Greek Genealogical Word List

FamilySearch Wiki - Greek Genealogical Word List (modern Demotic)

Genealogy.com - French terms and relationships for form letters

Genealogy.com - German terms and relationships for form letters

Genealogy.com - Italian terms and relationships for form letters

Genealogy.com - Spanish terms and relationships for form letters

German Study Group / German Words

German-English Genealogical Dictionary (Amazon)

A book by Ernest Thode.

Historismi.Net - Lyhenteitä ja Termejä / Terms and Abbreviations

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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.

Norwegian - American Dictionary

Norwegian words with their English translations. The words included here are those likely to be found in genealogical sources.

Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Project

Site for vocabulary and grammar of the Pennsylvania German (Pennsylvania Dutch) dialect common in Southeast Pennsylvania and as well as other areas.

Scottish Archive Network - Research Tools - The Glossary

Glossary of Scottish terms of interest to genealogists.