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*A good starting point for any country or family history topic is [http://www.cyndislist.com/ Cyndi's List] | *A good starting point for any country or family history topic is [http://www.cyndislist.com/ Cyndi's List] | ||
=== WESTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE === | |||
Austria | |||
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~autwgw/ - Austrian GenWeb arranged by ancient Crown land | |||
• http://www.genteam.at – various indexes for Vienna and surrounding area, and a gazetteer for modern-day Austria plus Bohemia and Moravia. Requires free registration and a user-name and password. | |||
• http://www.friedhoefewien.at/ - Index to cemeteries in Vienna | |||
Belgium | |||
• http://geneaknowhow.net/ portal to digital resources for Belgium and the Netherlands. Click on “digital resources”. | |||
France | |||
• www.geneanet.org/ - You can search this database by name and town. | |||
• http://www.francegenweb.org/~archives/archivesgenweb/?id=carte – click on a department to get the link to the on-line archive. Each department works differently. Departments with online archives are coded in blue. Not all have online archives | |||
• http://www.francegenweb.org/ - Portal to French genealogy websites | |||
• http://www.geopatronyme.com/ - all about French surnames and surname distribution | |||
• www.patro.com and www.genealogie.com (partner sites) - Find marriage, birth and death records before 1905 from civil and church registers. (subscription site – not complete) | |||
• www.geneafrance.org – provides information about different record types, research information, how to order certificates. | |||
Germany | |||
• www.genealogy.net – in German www.genealogienetz.de , internet portal for German research (both links open the home page. For the English-language home page, use www.genealogy.net/genealogy) – includes a Wiki, digital library of genealogical resources, several databases, and close to 300 online town genealogies. | |||
• http://adressbuch.zlb.de/ - Berlin address book from 1799-1943 available with images. | |||
• http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp -tools for genealogy east of the Oder-Neisse river | |||
Italy | |||
• http://lancione-laura.tripod.com/italian_genealogy_links.htm - Italian genealogy links, surname boards and more. | |||
• http://www.sersale.org/comunes.htm (transcribed vital records of Italian towns - This list is specifically composed of websites or email addresses that represent the transcription of hundreds or thousands of records; birth records, marriage records, death and baptisms all over Italy. Occasionally, digital images are provided. A great website!) | |||
• http://italia.indettaglio.it/eng/cognomi/cognomi.html (Italian surname search engine. For each province all of the towns will be listed where the surname occurs, ordered via a numerical value representing the estimate of the number of individuals having the requested surname.) | |||
• http://www.operaduomo.firenze.it/battesimi/ (Scanned images of baptisms from Florence from 1482-1900 – just for fun) | |||
Luxembourg | |||
• http://www.roots.lu - Genealogical data from Luxembourg | |||
• http://www.luxracines.lu/ - genealogy and local history in Luxembourg | |||
The Netherlands | |||
• www.genlias.nl nationwide indexes to civil registration records, with abstracts [not complete, has English interface] | |||
• www.cbg.nl - Central Bureau for Genealogy | |||
• www.archiefnet.nl portal to city-, state-, and other archives | |||
• http://www.gemeentearchief.rotterdam.nl – look for “genealogy” or “stamboom”. Many other provincial or city archives have put indexes and records online. Check the Archiefnet.nl website for archive addresses of interest. | |||
Spain | |||
• https://www.familysearch.org - Access images of Roman Catholic church records and municipal records (civil births, marriages, deaths) for several provinces | |||
Switzerland | |||
• http://www.ghgrb.ch/researchCorner/billeter.html - index to genealogies compiled by Julius Billeter [note: Billeter’s compilations have all been filmed and are available at the Library. Check the surname in the FHLC for film numbers. | |||
• http://www.swissgenealogie.ch/index.html - Swiss genealogy on the Internet | |||
• http://www.svjg.org/ - Swiss Society for Jewish genealogy | |||