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.
Also see Online Germany Empire Genealogy Records by State for collections covering current and former states in Germany.

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. Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971, index and images, ($). Archion, Online Archives of the Lutheran Church Matricula, Catholic Records for the Dioceses of Hildesheim, Magdeburg, Münster, Paderborn, and Passau Netherlands, Bibliothèque Wallonne, Card Indexes, ca. 1500-1858. Abstracts of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and memberships from French Protestant parish registers from Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Card index. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Ancestry.com, ($). Index. Incomplete. Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. FamilySearch Historical Records. Index. Incomplete. Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. MyHeritage.com, ($). Index and images. Incomplete. Germany Marriages, 1558-1929. FamilySearch Historical Records. Index. Incomplete. Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929. Ancestry.com, ($). 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, ($). Index and images. British Births, Marriages, and Deaths UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969, index ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, index and images, ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages,, index and images, ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, 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, ($). Biographies Deutsche Biographie (German Biography). Also available at Ancestry.com, ($). Index and images. Biographie Portal EU--New German Biography FemBio Database Cemeteries Germany, Find A Grave Index, ($). 1600s-Current. Index. In German. Index. Incomplete. JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR). Also available at JewishGen.org, (no charge.) Index. In German. Incomplete. National German Military Grave Registration Service. Images, no index. In German. Incomplete. Billion Graves Angrada Links on the Interment.net website Genealogy.net Gravestone picture database The German Military Grave Registration Service. *Online Tomb Search Compiled Genealogies--Pedigrees and Family Groups GEDBAS (Compiled Genealogies). Index. Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes GEDCOM Index Germany. Index. Directories German Phone Directories, ($). 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. Arolsen Archives - 13 million Holocaust records online. 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, ($). 1935-1944. Index and images. In German. UK, Selected Records Relating to Kindertransport (USHMM), ($). 1938-1939. Index and images. In German. Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 (USHMM), ($), index Maps and Gazetteers MeyersGaz Online Gazetteers CompGen GOV DigiBib Gazetteer List DigiBib Maps DigiBib Topographies DigiBib Local Histories DigiBib Parish Listings DigiBib Parish Inventories The Ravenstein Atlas of the German Empire Kartenmeister maps of Eastern German provinces with place names in German, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian Military Records Germany & Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers, ($). 1500-1939. Index. In German. Germany and Austria, Military and Marine Unit Histories, ($). 1760-1933. Index and images. In German. Germany, Military and Marine Weekly Publications. 1816-1942. Index and images. In German. German Navy Crew Chronicle, ($). 1891-1918. Index. Incomplete. Germany, Torpedo Personnel Register. 1911. Index. Incomplete. German Casualties in the Franco-Prussian War, ($). 1870-1871. Images, no index. In German. Incomplete. World War I Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918) Histories of German and Austrain Division,1917-1918. Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 ($) Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1917 Index and images. In German. ($) Germany, Navy Casualty List, 1914-1915 Index and images. In German. Incomplete. ($) Genwiki World War I Casualty Lists The World Remembers - WWI Deaths Numerical Lists of German Prisoners of War Interned by the American Expeditionary Forces in France Organizational Lists of German Prisoners of War Interned by the American Expeditionary Forces in France Lists of German Prisoners of War Assigned to Prisoner of War Company Commanders when Labor Companies were Formed 1914-1918, Prisoners of the First World War. ICRC Historical Archives. Index. World War II Prisoner of War Rosters, 1942-1947, National Archives NAID 849166 This collection contains records of prisoners of war interned in the United States Records Relating to Prisoners of War, 1942-1927, National Archives NAID 865093 Includes deaths lists sent to the International Red Cross. Records Relating to German Prisoners of War, 1943-1952, National Archives NAID 876973 German War Cemetery records database Nobility in Deutschland (Lineages of flourishing and extinct nobles in Germany). Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung (IDA) Wikipedia links to German noble families Nobility of the World--Germany Google Books: Deutsches Adels-Lexicon German Nobility Lexicon Obituaries German Obituaries Occupations Several directories by occupation, ($) Periodicals PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($) Persecutions Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947, index and images. Town Genealogies (Ortsippenbuceher) Online Town Heritage Books. Index. Incomplete. See #Step-by Step User's Guide

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