Germany Online Genealogy Records

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Guide to Germany Online Genealogy Records for researching ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth, marriage, death, census, church, military, immigration, and naturalization records.

Germany Online Genealogy Records This chart shows links to countrywide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county, town, or parish), go to Locating Online Databases. Ancestry.com, findmypast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Church Records and Vital Records Births, Baptisms or Christenings, Marriages, Deaths or Burials Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971, index and images, ($). Archion, Online Archives of the Lutheran Church Matrucula, Catholic Records for the Dioceses of Hildesheim, Magdeburg, Münster, and Passau Netherlands, Bibliothèque Wallonne, Card Indexes, ca. 1500-1858. Abstracts of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and memberships from French Protestant parish registers from Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Card index. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Ancestry.com, ($). Index. Incomplete. Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. FamilySearch Historical Records. Index. Incomplete. Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. MyHeritage.com, ($). Index and images. Incomplete. Germany Marriages, 1558-1929. FamilySearch Historical Records. Index. Incomplete. Germany, Select Marriages (Deutschland, Heiraten), 1558-1929. Ancestry.com, ($). Index. Incomplete. Germany Marriages, 1558-1929. MyHeritage.com, ($). Index. Incomplete. Germany Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958. FamilySearch Historical Records. Index and images Germany Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958. MyHeritage.com, ($). Index and images. Germany, Select Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958. Ancestry.com, ($). Index and images. Germans from Russia, St. Petersburg Archives 1833-1885. Also available at Ancestry.com, ($). British Births, Marriages, and Deaths British Nationals Born Overseas 1818-2005, index and images. British Nationals Born Overseas 1818-2005, index and images, ($) British Nationals Married Overseas 1818-2005, index and images, British Nationals Married Overseas 1818-2005,, index and images, ($) British Nationals Died Overseas 1818-2005, index and images. British Nationals Died Overseas 1818-2005, index and images, ($) Huguenots (French Protestants) German Huguenot Society eV , index. Large Databases with Many Record Types Ancestry.com Germany records, ($). MyHeritage.com Germany search, ($). Germany, Prussia, Westphalia, Minden, Miscellaneous Collections from the Municipal Archives, 1574-1912 — index and images Biographies Deutsche Biographie (German Biography). Also available at Ancestry.com, ($). Index and images. Biographie Portal EU--New German Biography FemBio Database Cemeteries Germany, Find A Grave Index, ($). 1600s-Current. Index. In German. Index. Incomplete. JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR). Also available at JewishGen.org, (no charge.) Index. In German. Incomplete. National German Military Grave Registration Service. Images, no index. In German. Incomplete. Compiled Genealogies--Pedigrees and Family Groups GEDBAS (Compiled Genealogies). Index. Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes GEDCOM Index Germany. Index. Directories German Phone Directories (Deutsche Telefonbücher), ($). 1915-1981. Index and images. In German. Several directories by occupation, ($) Das Telefonbuch Current. Index. In German. Database of Historic Addresses. Index and images. In German. Incomplete. Germany and Surrounding Areas, Address Books, 1815-1974, index and images, ($).

Emigration, Immigration, and Passenger Lists See also,U.S. Immigration Online Genealogy Records and U.S. Naturalization Online Genealogy Records. Ancestry.com, indexes and linked images, ($). German Roots Roots in Germany Germany Roots French Lines Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung Germans Immigrating to the United States. Index. Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank (German Emigrants Database). Index. Lists of Germans immigrating to Brazil, 1859, in Portuguese. German immigrants to Chile Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (Outgoing passengers) UK, Selected Records Relating to Kindertransport (USHMM), ($). 1938-1939. Index and images. In German. Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 (USHMM), ($), index Jewish Records International Tracing Service Inline Digital Collections JewishGen.Index. Incomplete. JewishGen's Holocaust Database, Free. Index and images. In German. Memorial Book, Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945. Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime (Deutschland, Index von Juden, deren deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft vom Nazi-Regime annulliert wurde), ($). 1935-1944. Index and images. In German. UK, Selected Records Relating to Kindertransport (USHMM), ($). 1938-1939. Index and images. In German. Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 (USHMM), ($), index Maps and Gazetteers MeyersGaz Online Gazetteers CompGen GOV DigiBib Gazetteer List DigiBib Maps DigiBib Topographies DigiBib Local Histories DigiBib Parish Listings DigiBib Parish Inventories The Ravenstein Atlas of the German Empire Military Records Germany & Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers (Deutschland und Österreich, Verzeichnisse von Militär- und Marineoffizieren), ($). 1500-1939. Index. In German. Germany and Austria, Military and Marine Unit Histories, (Deutschland und Österreich, Geschichten militärischer Einheiten), ($). 1760-1933. Index and images. In German. Germany, Military and Marine Weekly Publications (Deutschland, militärische Wochen- und Verordnungsblätter). 1816-1942. Index and images. In German. German Navy Crew Chronicle (Chroniken der deutschen Marinebesatzung), ($). 1891-1918. Index. Incomplete. Germany, Torpedo Personnel Register (Deutschland, Register des Torpedopersonals). 1911. Index. Incomplete. Deutschland, Verlustlisten der Marine, 1914-1917 (Germany, Navy Casualty Lists), ($). 1914-1917. Index and images. In German. Incomplete. German Casualties in the Franco-Prussian War (Deutsche Verluste im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg), ($). 1870-1871. Images, no index. In German. Incomplete. Germany, World War I Casualty Lists (Deutschland, Verlustlisten im 1. Weltkrieg), ($). 1914-1917. Index and images. In German. German, 1914-1918, Prisoners of the First World War. ICRC Historical Archives. Index. Obituaries German Obituaries Occupations Several directories by occupation, ($) Town Genealogies (Ortsippenbuceher) Online Town Heritage Books. Index. Incomplete. See #Step-by Step User's Guide

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