12 February 2021
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Ahnenforschung Zwischen Rhein und BeNeLux (Facebook)
Genealogy Between the Rhine and Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
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Amtliches Deutsches Ortsbuch für das Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren
Czech, Protektorat, Bohemia, Moravia, villages, towns, districts, maps.
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Anatolia-Balkans-Caucasus DNA / Anadolu-Balkanlar-Kafkasya DNA (Facebook)
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Herzegovina, Iran, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Yugoslavia.
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Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Maps for sale at various levels of detail from the German mapping authority.
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The Arolsen Archives are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world's most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism.
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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.
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Bayerische Landesbibliotheken Online / Bavarian State Library Online - Ortsblätter
In the 19th century the Kingdom of Bavaria was detected for the first time comprehensively mapped. As part of a tax-cadastral surveying emerged in the years 1808 to 1853 approximately 22,000 large-scale cadastral maps.
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CSSI: Suche nach Batchnummern (Search for Batch Numbers)
This German-language form allows you to enter a town name, area, postal code, or batch number to find all related information in the LDS indexes.
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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.
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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.
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GermanNames - Shareware for German Genealogy
Surname maps of modern Germany based on telephone directories.
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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.
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From the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin.
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JEWS - Jekkes Engaged Worldwide in Social Networking (Facebook)
"Jecke" means German Jew. For our purposes here we expand the definition to include Jews from any German-speaking area. This group is created with the hope of finding and networking with all those with this background who SELF-IDENTIFY as Jeckes.
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Library of Congress - Density of distribution of the natives of Canada and Newfoundland: 1890
Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - Density of distribution of the natives of Great Britain: 1890
Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - Density of distribution of the natives of Ireland: 1890
Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - 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.
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Library of Congress - Density of distribution of the natives of the Scandinavian nations: 1890
Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - Official map of Michigan, railroad, township and sectional
Scanned image of 1885 map prepared under the direction of the commissioner of railroads.
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Library of Congress - Proportion of the Congregationalists to the aggregate population: 1890
Scanned image (bottom map) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - Proportion of the Disciples of Christ to the aggregate population: 1890
Scanned image (top map) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - Proportion of the Methodists to the aggregate population: 1890
Scanned image (bottom map) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.
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Library of Congress - Rail road & township map of Massachusetts
Scanned image of the map published at the Boston Map Store, 1879.
