German Research Websites

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Archives

• 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

Biography

• Deutsche Biographie - Search page

Calendars

• French Republican Calendar (Research outline)
• GenTools 6-software for historians and genealogists
• Grotefend calendar book online
• Calendar converter (German)
• The Calendar Zone - software links
• The Liturgical Year

Churches

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

Colonies

• German Colonies

Concentration Camps

• Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps
• Holocaust Victims killed in Czech Concentration Camps
• International Tracing Service

Culture

• Village celebration (in German)

Databases

• Biography search
• Emigration from Southwest Germany
• German Newspapers
• Historische Adressbuecher - Eine Sekundärquelle fuer die Familienforschung
• IGI batch number search
• Schleswig census
• Schleswig-Holstein census
• Wehdem Parish Records online
• Westfalen Family Name search

Directories

• German Online Telephone Book
• historic address books

Emigration and Immigration

• Emigration from Southwest Germany
• Emigration via Bremen
• Galveston-Bremen Project
• Hamburg Passenger Lists - User Guide
• Westfalen emigrants (in German)
• Lower Saxony State Archives Emigrant Search
• Palatines to America
• German Roots Internet portal
• German Emigrant Lists
• Roots in Germany portal
• Internet Resources for Finding Origins of German 19th Century Emigrants
• Pre-1820 Emigration from Germany

Gazetteers - general

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

Genealogy

• 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
• IGI German Batchnumber Index
• DigiBib - Digital Library on genealogy.net
• German Association of Professional Genealogists
• Historical and genealogical digital publications for sale 

General Information

• Wikipedia 
• Currency Converter
• Deutsche Post
• Language Tools - Google
• Meine Stadt.de

Historical Geography

• German Town Name Meanings
• Kartenmeister

Jewish

• Jewish Genealogy FamilySearch Wiki article
• Jewish Genealogy Roots Ancestry Ancestors Information Research History Names Surnames And Jewish Family Tree
• www.auschwitz.org.pl

Language helps and guides

• 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

• Ravenstein Atlas of the German Empire - can be downloaded, with accompanying gazetteer
• Historical outline maps of 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

Societies

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

the Vereine (societies) portal

• FEEFHS - Eastern European Genealogy - FEEFHS
• Leipzig Genealogical Society
• Palatines to America Society
• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE) 
• Ostfriesen Genealogical Society of America
• American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
• Germans from Russia Heritage Society
• Sacramento German Genealogical Society
• Germanic Genealogy Society   (in Minnesota)
• Southern California Genealogical Society - German SIG
• The German-Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society
• Immigrant Genealogical Society
• Orangeburgh Swiss-German Genealogical Society
• Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society 
• Southwest Florida Germanic Genealogy Society

Town Lineage Books

• 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