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Archives[edit | edit source]

Association of Evangelical Church Archives
Archives in Germany - Hanacek (2000)
Archives in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Archive links (Cox)
Archive School Marburg
EZAB - Berlin Evangelical Central Archive Holdings
Oberlausitz Evangelical Archive
EZAB portal page
Geheimes Archiv - Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz
GHI Links to German Archives
Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Germany
Monasterium.net
Niedersachsen Archives - Aida online
Unesco Directory of Religious Archives - Germany
PDF Archive Inventory Part 1 of 2: Church records in Archives" - an inventory of localities and the location or archive where the records should be found.
The list of archives with addresses which correspond to the localities list, can be found at this link Archive Addresses Please note that in the second column, with the heading of "key" matches the Archive "number" in the first link which contains the database.

Biography[edit | edit source]

Deutsche Biographie - Search page

Calendars[edit | edit source]

Churches[edit | edit source]

Alt-Katholiken - Germany
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)
Evangelical Church in Germany
IGI Batch Number Index
Bibliography - Books of Pastors (arranged by modern German state)
Roman Catholic church in Germany

Colonies[edit | edit source]

German Colonies

Concentration Camps[edit | edit source]

Culture[edit | edit source]

Village celebration (in German)

Databases[edit | edit source]

Digital Libraries[edit | edit source]

Retro-bib - digitized 19th Century reference works, including Meyers Konversationslexikon and the Brockhaus lexikon
Digibib - Digital Library on Genealogy.net in various categories, includes links to other digital libraries

Directories[edit | edit source]

Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

Gazetteers - general[edit | edit source]

Using Meyer's Gazetteer
Meyers Gazetteer onlinepart 1 A-K,part 2 L-Z
Orbis Latinus
Kartenmeister

Genealogy[edit | edit source]

Aller Ursprung - Magdeburg Boerde
Familienforschung - Wittholz
Germany GenWeb
Ahnenforschung.net - German genealogical forum and link list
Forschungsstellen - research groups of the Association of East German Family Historians. Contact them to find out if records for a town in a formerly German area have survived.
Genealogy.net - German Genealogy on the Internet (German site)
Genealogy.net - English language section, which is separate from the German language site
German Names - Shareware for German Genealogy
German-Russian Genealogy
Germans from Russia Research
Ahnenstammkartei des deutschen Volkes - GenWiki article
Archivalia - Archive newsletter with links to genealogy information
Schloeder/Schleder Genealogy
German GenWiki
WVC Library Link list for German genealogy
FEEFHS resources for Germany
historic areal measures
helpful articles on German research topics (ProGenealogists website)
German research link list (Favos)
genealogy.net mailing lists
genealogylinks.net- Germany
Personalschriften.de - information about printed funeral sermons, with links to various indexes
helps for contributing to the English instance of GenWiki
LDS Batchnumbers - how to get to the original record (in German)
IGI German Batchnumber Index
DigiBib - Digital Library on genealogy.net
German Association of Professional Genealogists
Historical and genealogical digital publications for sale
Genealogy Search Engine Mocavo

General Information[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia
Deutschland auf einen Blick! - links to maps of modern German states with tourist information, especially hotels
Currency Converter
Deutsche Post
Language Tools - Google
Meine Stadt.de

Handwriting[edit | edit source]

Reading old German Handwriting , a series of three classes ( go to "Reading Handwritten Records Series")
German Script tutorial
German-type fonts to download (free)

Historical Geography[edit | edit source]

Jewish[edit | edit source]

Language helps and guides[edit | edit source]

Orbis Latinus Latin Place names
German Genealogical Word List FamilySearch Wiki article
Latin Genealogical Word List
archaic mediccal terms (in English)
Old terms for illnesses (in German)
German occupations (on Jewishgen.org)
historic German professions
Google language tools
Grimm's Dictionary of the German Language
Latinized Given names
German-English dictionary
Gothic Handwriting Resource Guide
Translation of Phrases

Maps[edit | edit source]

Ravenstein Atlas of the German Empire - can be downloaded, with accompanying gazetteer
Historical outline maps of Germany
Interactive map of modern Germany
Kartenmeister - for formerly German areas now in Eastern countries, especially Poland
Karte der RBD Berlin 1943
Stadtplan Berlin und Vororte 1907
Pfalz 1789 map and other Pfalz area maps

Military Records[edit | edit source]

Good military site

Names - personal[edit | edit source]

Geogen - maps surnames by frequency, using the German online telphone directory

Occupations[edit | edit source]

German Society for the historical mills of Germany

Research Guides[edit | edit source]

Genealogy.net/genealogy - English home page of Genealogy.net, the German Internet portal
http://members.cox.net/hessen/hsstory.htm
Book: The German Research Companion , (link to publisher)
German Roots: Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet
http://net.lib.byu.edu/fslab/researchoutlines/Europe/Germany.pdf
Book: Researching in Germany ,a handbook for your visit to the homeland of your ancestors (link to publisher)
English-language Gen-Wiki:the German States of 1871 (links to pages)
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Microfilmed_German_church_records:_helpful_hints

Social History[edit | edit source]

Distribution of Property in Pommerania and the Island of Ruegen (in German), includes a discussion of Leibeigenschaft (feudal serfdom) in this area
Kleiderordnung(dress code), a Wikipedia article thst discusses the rules designed to clarify what clothing and jewelry can be worn by members of the various social classes (in German)
Kleidung im Mittelalter (clothing in the Middle Ages (in German), Wikipedia article
Der Kampf um das Taegliche Brot (The Fight for the Daily Bread- in German), food protests in the 19th Century, an exhibit by the German Historical Museum
Staendeordnung- (order of social classes), in German (Wikipedia)

Societies and other Resources [edit | edit source]

Links to the major German genealogical societes are easily accessed through Genealogy.net at

the Vereine (societies) portal

Town Lineage Books[edit | edit source]

Town genealogies on genealogy.net
Bibliography of printed town genealogies
bibliography of published town genealogies (Weiss)
Baden Ortssippenbücher - list of published and available books
Village lineage books for Schlesien - a bibliography

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 *[http://www.akvz.de/news.php Schleswig-Holstein census]
 *[http://members.tripod.com/Stemweder/wehdem.html Wehdem Parish Records online]
 *[http://www.geocities.com/vw25176/quellen/mormonenbatch.html Westfalen Family Name search]
 *[http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html German Gravesite database]
+*[http://meta.genealogy.net/ Metasearch searches data in GedBas, Datenbank Historischer Adressbücher, Foko,Forschungsdatenbanken der Vereine, Online Ortsfamilienbücher, Familienanzeigen, and Volkszahlregister Schleswig Holstein]
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