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*Meyers Gazetteer (currently not online)  
*Meyers Gazetteer (currently not online)  
*[http://www.compgen.de The Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis (GOV)]  
*[http://www.compgen.de The Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis (GOV)]  
*[http://www.kartenmeister.com/ Areas east of the Oder-Neisse rivers]
*[http://www.kartenmeister.com/ Areas east of the Oder-Neisse rivers]  
*For phonetic searches in the area covered by today’s Germany, use the [http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/ “fuzzy gazetteer”]  
*For phonetic searches in the area covered by today’s Germany, use the [http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/ “fuzzy gazetteer”]  
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/LocTown.asp JewishGen gazetteer] has several search options, including “contains”. Be sure to change the country and choose a search option.  
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/LocTown.asp JewishGen gazetteer] has several search options, including “contains”. Be sure to change the country and choose a search option.  
*[http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7346&from=pubstats Deutsch-Fremdsprachiges Ortsnamenverzeichnis] place name changes for formerly German localities as of June 1919,
*[http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7346&from=pubstats Deutsch-Fremdsprachiges Ortsnamenverzeichnis] place name changes for formerly German localities as of June 1919,  
*[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html Orbis Latinus] (1909 - English interface) – Latinized place names. Several volumes/editions are available on multiple websites: [http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orbis-latinus 1972 four-volume combined set version]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html Orbis Latinus] (1909 - English interface) – Latinized place names. Several volumes/editions are available on multiple websites: [http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orbis-latinus 1972 four-volume combined set version]


==== Prussia (Preußen) ===
==== Prussia (Preußen) ====
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=31437 Gemeindelexikon Preußen] -  
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=31437 Gemeindelexikon Preußen] -
 
A complete set of the volumes. Browse images by volume.  
A complete set of the volumes. Browse images by volume.  
*Various volumes of Gemeindelexikon Preußen are also available on [http://books.google.com/ GoogleBooks] and the [http://www.compgen.de DigiBib] (Genealogy.net)


=== REGIONAL ===
*Various volumes of Gemeindelexikon Preußen are also available on [http://books.google.com/ GoogleBooks] and the [http://www.compgen.de DigiBib] (Genealogy.net)
 
=== REGIONAL ===
 
A number of gazetteers and parish register inventories are available in the [http://www.compgen.de digital library (DigiBib)] of the German Society for Computer Genealogy. The are found under the tab “Digibib”. New titles are added regularly.  
A number of gazetteers and parish register inventories are available in the [http://www.compgen.de digital library (DigiBib)] of the German Society for Computer Genealogy. The are found under the tab “Digibib”. New titles are added regularly.  


=== Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen) ====
==== Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen) ====
 
  • Ortschaft-Verzeichnis von Elsass-Lotharingen (1880), see http://books.google.com/books?id=4JJMAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false • List: Die Orte des Elsass, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fraalsac/alsaceaz/geninfoger.htm • Deutsch-französisches Ortsnamenverzeichnis, see http://www.elsass-lothringen.de/ortenamen.htm • German-French place name list for Alsace, see http://michel.barbier.pagesperso-orange.fr/AlsaLor-DG.html Baden • Das Grossherzogtum Baden in geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher, geschichtlicher, wirtschaftlicher und staatlicher Hinsicht dargestellt , see http://books.google.com/books/about/Das_Grossherzogtum_Baden_in_geographisch.html?id=GjEBAAAAQAAJ Explanation of symbols and abbreviations see p. 768, alphabetical place name list follows. • http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon does not list parish, but gives history  
  • Ortschaft-Verzeichnis von Elsass-Lotharingen (1880), see http://books.google.com/books?id=4JJMAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false • List: Die Orte des Elsass, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fraalsac/alsaceaz/geninfoger.htm • Deutsch-französisches Ortsnamenverzeichnis, see http://www.elsass-lothringen.de/ortenamen.htm • German-French place name list for Alsace, see http://michel.barbier.pagesperso-orange.fr/AlsaLor-DG.html Baden • Das Grossherzogtum Baden in geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher, geschichtlicher, wirtschaftlicher und staatlicher Hinsicht dargestellt , see http://books.google.com/books/about/Das_Grossherzogtum_Baden_in_geographisch.html?id=GjEBAAAAQAAJ Explanation of symbols and abbreviations see p. 768, alphabetical place name list follows. • http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon does not list parish, but gives history  


==== Bavaria (Bayern) ====  
==== Bavaria (Bayern) ====
 
• „Amtliche Ortsverzeichnisse” (official gazetteers) are available beginning with 1877 and can be downloaded here http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/landesbeschreibungen-orte#1888 • Ortsdatenbank (place name database); entries include links to articles and nice maps, see http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/ortsdatenbank • Bayernatlas regional atlas (modern, very nice!) see http://geoportal.bayern.de/bayernatlas/  
• „Amtliche Ortsverzeichnisse” (official gazetteers) are available beginning with 1877 and can be downloaded here http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/landesbeschreibungen-orte#1888 • Ortsdatenbank (place name database); entries include links to articles and nice maps, see http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/ortsdatenbank • Bayernatlas regional atlas (modern, very nice!) see http://geoportal.bayern.de/bayernatlas/  


==== Berlin ====  
==== Berlin ====
 
• http://www.alt-berlin.info/ - street maps • http://www.luise-berlin.de/strassen/indexstr.htm directory of historic and current Berlin street names  
• http://www.alt-berlin.info/ - street maps • http://www.luise-berlin.de/strassen/indexstr.htm directory of historic and current Berlin street names  


==== Brandenburg ====  
==== Brandenburg ====
 
• Quellen zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte in der Mark Brandenburg bis 1945 (2012) by Stefan Rückling, see https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/3315714/quellen-zur-bevolkerungsgeschichte-in-der-mark-brandenburg-bis-/3  
• Quellen zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte in der Mark Brandenburg bis 1945 (2012) by Stefan Rückling, see https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/3315714/quellen-zur-bevolkerungsgeschichte-in-der-mark-brandenburg-bis-/3  


==== Bremen ====  
==== Bremen ====
 
• Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung der Herzogthümer Bremen und Verden (1824); the table of contents is at the end of volume 2. Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=AZcwAAAAYAAJ , Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=pW0AAAAAcAAJ  
• Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung der Herzogthümer Bremen und Verden (1824); the table of contents is at the end of volume 2. Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=AZcwAAAAYAAJ , Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=pW0AAAAAcAAJ  


==== Brunswick (Braunschweig) ====  
==== Brunswick (Braunschweig) ====
 
• Place list of the former Duchy of Braunschweig in the Kingdom of Westphalia (1806-1813), (good because of the boundary changes that had happened under Napoleon) see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsverzeichnis_des_ehemaligen_Herzogtums_Braunschweig_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Westphalen  
• Place list of the former Duchy of Braunschweig in the Kingdom of Westphalia (1806-1813), (good because of the boundary changes that had happened under Napoleon) see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsverzeichnis_des_ehemaligen_Herzogtums_Braunschweig_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Westphalen  


==== East Prussia (Ostpreussen) ====  
==== East Prussia (Ostpreussen) ====
 
• Gemeindelexikon Ostpreussen 1905 see http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_das_K%C3%B6nigreich_Pre.html?id=EcEzAQAAMAAJ • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ostpreu%C3%9Fen/Genealogische_Quellen Inventory of extant genealogical sources, arranged by Kreis  
• Gemeindelexikon Ostpreussen 1905 see http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_das_K%C3%B6nigreich_Pre.html?id=EcEzAQAAMAAJ • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ostpreu%C3%9Fen/Genealogische_Quellen Inventory of extant genealogical sources, arranged by Kreis  


==== Hamburg ====  
==== Hamburg ====
 
• Ausführliche Nachrichten über die sämmtlichen evangelisch-protestantischen Kirchen und Geistlichen der freyen und Hansestadt Hamburg (1826) – History of Hamburg parishes with lists of pastors. Click on „Inhalt“for a table of contents linked to images. See http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ausf%C3%BChrliche_Nachrichten_%C3%BCber_die_s%C3%A4mmtlichen_evangelisch-protestantischen_Kirchen_und_Geistlichen_der_freyen_und_Hansestadt_Hamburg • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on Hamburg, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ  
• Ausführliche Nachrichten über die sämmtlichen evangelisch-protestantischen Kirchen und Geistlichen der freyen und Hansestadt Hamburg (1826) – History of Hamburg parishes with lists of pastors. Click on „Inhalt“for a table of contents linked to images. See http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ausf%C3%BChrliche_Nachrichten_%C3%BCber_die_s%C3%A4mmtlichen_evangelisch-protestantischen_Kirchen_und_Geistlichen_der_freyen_und_Hansestadt_Hamburg • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on Hamburg, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ  


==== Hannover ====  
==== Hannover ====
 
• Historische Ortsdatenbank (Historical place name database) Ostfriesland see Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on Hamburg, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ • Gemeindelexikon (1908), digitized together with Westfalen and Pyrmont. Hannover is images 1-274, see http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_die_Provinz_Hannove.html?id=AEfcPgAACAAJ  
• Historische Ortsdatenbank (Historical place name database) Ostfriesland see Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on Hamburg, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ • Gemeindelexikon (1908), digitized together with Westfalen and Pyrmont. Hannover is images 1-274, see http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_die_Provinz_Hannove.html?id=AEfcPgAACAAJ  


==== Hessen ====  
==== Hessen ====
 
• Kirchenbücher und Standesregister für alle Wohnplätze im Land Hessen (1939), in the DigiBib, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_und_Standesregister_f%C3%BCr_alle_Wohnpl%C3%A4tze_im_Land_Hessen_(1939) • Database for today’s Hessen: Historisches Ortslexikon http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ol • http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf -Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer/parish register inventory  
• Kirchenbücher und Standesregister für alle Wohnplätze im Land Hessen (1939), in the DigiBib, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_und_Standesregister_f%C3%BCr_alle_Wohnpl%C3%A4tze_im_Land_Hessen_(1939) • Database for today’s Hessen: Historisches Ortslexikon http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ol • http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf -Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer/parish register inventory  


==== Hessen-Nassau ====  
==== Hessen-Nassau ====
• Database for today’s Hessen: Historisches Ortslexikon http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ol • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hessische_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher – list of parish registers already filmed at the Kassel church book archive Hohenzollern • Gemeindelexikon Hohenzollern’sche Lande 887 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hohenzollernsche_Lande/Gemeindelexikon_1887 Lippe-Detmold • Bilingual (German/English) gazetteer includes parish, civil registration office, post office and more http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe_orte-d.html Lübeck • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on the Fürstentum Lübeck, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Mecklenburg-Schwerin • Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mecklenburg-Schwerin_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers Mecklenburg-Strelitz • Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mecklenburg-Schwerin_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers Oldenburg • Gazetteer (table) see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Oldenburg_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers • http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/OGF/index.html - list of parishes for the 1814 area of Oldenburg, with beginning date for records and expert to contact for help, where available Palatinate (Pfalz) • Die Kirchenbücher der Bayrischen Pfalz ( 1925), parish register inventory, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_der_bayerischen_Pfalz_(1925) • http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf -Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer and parish register inventory Pommern • Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1885 see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=7545&from=FBC Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1905 see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7326 Posen • Posen Gemeindelexikon (1908) http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2094 • http://donhoward.net/genpoland/posguide.htm - List of vital records for the Prussian Province of Posen Rheinland • Gemeindelexikon 1885 available at http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gemeinde/gemeinde_index.html as a PDF that can be downloaded in sections, and in the DigiBib on www.compgen.de Saxon Duchies: • For some areas, see the Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony (Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) [in German] http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ The project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes). Use the Ämterverzeichnis to see the districts that are included in this work, http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ All original volumes of the Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon are available digitally and can be downloaded. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen for links. o Anhalt o Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg) o Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) o Saxe-Meiningen (Sachsen-Meiningen) o Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) o Reuss-Gera (Junior Line) o Reuss-Greiz (Senior Line) o Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt o Sondershausen Saxony [Kingdom] (Königreich Sachsen) • Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony (Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) [in German] . See http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ .The project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes). Use the Ämterverzeichnis to see the districts that are included in this work, http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ • All original volumes of the Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon are available digitally and can be downloaded. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen for links. • Die Kirchenbücher im Königreich Sachsen (parish register inventory) see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_(1901) Saxony [Prussian province] (Provinz Sachsen) • Parish register database can be searched by localities and parishes, see http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SAC/Kirchen/index.html • Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen ( 1854), see http://books.google.com/books?id=d9oAAAAAcAAJ • Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen (1839), see http://books.google.com/books?id=wQs8AAAAMAAJ Schaumburg-Lippe • Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe / Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer, see http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NSAC/SLP/gaz.html • see also http://www.blume-gen.de/index-orte.html . Parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites. Schleswig-Holstein • Gemeindelexikon 1897 see http://books.google.com/books?id=FYNAAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Silesia (Schlesien) • Die Kirchenbücher Schlesiens beider Confessionen (1902),parish register inventory, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_Schlesiens_beider_Confessionen_(1902) Waldeck-Pyrmont • Gemeindelexikon 1905, included with Westfalen, see the addendum beginning on page 131, https://books.google.de/books?id=9cEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Gemeindelexikon+Waldeck-Pyrmont&source=bl&ots=Dq1YeAIbz1&sig=ZQu3Sj6wuOlWxU7ywfOMG59VrCo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvP5VOPmKseRoQSnrIDIBw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Gemeindelexikon%20Waldeck-Pyrmont&f=false Westfalen • Gemeindelexikon 1905, digitized together with Hannover and Pyrmont; Westfalen begins with image 245, see https://books.google.de/books?id=9cEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=westfalen+Gemeindelexikon&source=bl&ots=Dq1YeAI5wY&sig=PUO5fBSFAp-BsT9eQ5lGabnZ5Ns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=y_D5VKjMKJH0oASEqYK4Bw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=westfalen%20Gemeindelexikon&f=false • Gemeindelexikon Westfalen 1887 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Gemeindelexikon_Westfalen_1887 Westpreussen • Nice gazetteer with records inventory and links to maps (in German). Can search partial place names (at least 4 letters required), see http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis.php Württemberg • http://www.archiv.elk-wue.de/cms/startseite/kirchenbuchdatenbank/ - database of Evangelical parishes, with links to other related databases • Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg – several editions can be viewed or downloaded on GoogleBooks. For the 1901 edition see http://books.google.com/books/about/Staatshandbuch_f%C3%BCr_W%C3%BCrttemberg.html?id=nMsnc6NvbnUC • Same, 1907 edition see https://archive.org/details/staatshandbuchf01landgoog • Staatshandbuch 1936 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/W%C3%BCrttemberg/Staatshandbuch_1936/ • http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon does not list parish, but gives history
 
• Database for today’s Hessen: Historisches Ortslexikon http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ol • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hessische_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher – list of parish registers already filmed at the Kassel church book archive  
 
==== Hohenzollern ====
• Gemeindelexikon Hohenzollern’sche Lande 887 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hohenzollernsche_Lande/Gemeindelexikon_1887  
 
==== Lippe-Detmold ====
• Bilingual (German/English) gazetteer includes parish, civil registration office, post office and more http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe_orte-d.html  
 
==== Lübeck ====
*Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on the Fürstentum Lübeck, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ  
 
==== Mecklenburg-Schwerin ==== • Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mecklenburg-Schwerin_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers  
 
==== Mecklenburg-Strelitz ====
• Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mecklenburg-Schwerin_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers  
 
==== Oldenburg ====
• Gazetteer (table) see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Oldenburg_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers • http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/OGF/index.html - list of parishes for the 1814 area of Oldenburg, with beginning date for records and expert to contact for help, where available  
 
==== Palatinate (Pfalz) ====
• Die Kirchenbücher der Bayrischen Pfalz ( 1925), parish register inventory, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_der_bayerischen_Pfalz_(1925) • http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf -Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer and parish register inventory  
 
==== Pommern ====
• Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1885 see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=7545&from=FBC Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1905 see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7326  
 
==== Posen ====
• Posen Gemeindelexikon (1908) http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2094 • http://donhoward.net/genpoland/posguide.htm - List of vital records for the Prussian Province of Posen  
 
==== Rheinland ====
Gemeindelexikon 1885 available at http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gemeinde/gemeinde_index.html as a PDF that can be downloaded in sections, and in the DigiBib on www.compgen.de  
 
==== Saxon Duchies: ====
• For some areas, see the Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony (Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) [in German] http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ The project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes). Use the Ämterverzeichnis to see the districts that are included in this work, http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ All original volumes of the Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon are available digitally and can be downloaded. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen for links. o Anhalt o Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg) o Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) o Saxe-Meiningen (Sachsen-Meiningen) o Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) o Reuss-Gera (Junior Line) o Reuss-Greiz (Senior Line) o Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt o Sondershausen  
 
==== Saxony [Kingdom] (Königreich Sachsen) ====
• Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony (Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) [in German] . See http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ .The project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes). Use the Ämterverzeichnis to see the districts that are included in this work, http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ • All original volumes of the Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon are available digitally and can be downloaded. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen for links. • Die Kirchenbücher im Königreich Sachsen (parish register inventory) see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_(1901)  
 
==== Saxony [Prussian province] (Provinz Sachsen) ====
• Parish register database can be searched by localities and parishes, see http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SAC/Kirchen/index.html • Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen ( 1854), see http://books.google.com/books?id=d9oAAAAAcAAJ • Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen (1839), see http://books.google.com/books?id=wQs8AAAAMAAJ  
 
==== Schaumburg-Lippe ====
• Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe / Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer, see http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NSAC/SLP/gaz.html • see also http://www.blume-gen.de/index-orte.html . Parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites.  
 
==== Schleswig-Holstein ====
• Gemeindelexikon 1897 see http://books.google.com/books?id=FYNAAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ  
 
==== Silesia (Schlesien) ====
• Die Kirchenbücher Schlesiens beider Confessionen (1902),parish register inventory, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_Schlesiens_beider_Confessionen_(1902)  
 
==== Waldeck-Pyrmont ====
• Gemeindelexikon 1905, included with Westfalen, see the addendum beginning on page 131, https://books.google.de/books?id=9cEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Gemeindelexikon+Waldeck-Pyrmont&source=bl&ots=Dq1YeAIbz1&sig=ZQu3Sj6wuOlWxU7ywfOMG59VrCo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvP5VOPmKseRoQSnrIDIBw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Gemeindelexikon%20Waldeck-Pyrmont&f=false  
 
==== Westfalen ====
• Gemeindelexikon 1905, digitized together with Hannover and Pyrmont; Westfalen begins with image 245, see https://books.google.de/books?id=9cEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=westfalen+Gemeindelexikon&source=bl&ots=Dq1YeAI5wY&sig=PUO5fBSFAp-BsT9eQ5lGabnZ5Ns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=y_D5VKjMKJH0oASEqYK4Bw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=westfalen%20Gemeindelexikon&f=false • Gemeindelexikon Westfalen 1887 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Gemeindelexikon_Westfalen_1887  
 
==== Westpreussen ====
• Nice gazetteer with records inventory and links to maps (in German). Can search partial place names (at least 4 letters required), see http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis.php  
 
==== Württemberg ====
• http://www.archiv.elk-wue.de/cms/startseite/kirchenbuchdatenbank/ - database of Evangelical parishes, with links to other related databases • Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg – several editions can be viewed or downloaded on GoogleBooks. For the 1901 edition see http://books.google.com/books/about/Staatshandbuch_f%C3%BCr_W%C3%BCrttemberg.html?id=nMsnc6NvbnUC • Same, 1907 edition see https://archive.org/details/staatshandbuchf01landgoog • Staatshandbuch 1936 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/W%C3%BCrttemberg/Staatshandbuch_1936/ • http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon does not list parish, but gives history