East Prussia (Ostpreußen) Research Websites

Online record collections
See German Online Genealogy Records. Databases cover indexed Germany birth, marriage, and death records; biographies; cemeteries; censuses; emigration, immigration, and passenger lists; land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, probate records, and town genealogies.

See Prussia, West Prussia, East Prussia (Preussen, Westpreussen, Ostpreussen) Online Genealogy Records for data about people who lived in Prussia, West Prussia, East Prussia (Preussen, Westpreussen, Ostpreussen). This online collection may include birth, marriage, and death records; biographies; cemeteries; censuses; emigration, immigration, and passenger lists; land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, probate records, and town genealogies.

German genealogy on the wiki
See also Germany Genealogy wiki to learn about typical German records and tips for finding them.

BYU German research class, online, no charge
See also German Research, a free, in-depth online course through Brigham Young University, by Larry Jensen.

Germany Websites--Reference and Training
Websites that assist in finding and using genealogy records for German ancestors. = Research Websites: =

Archives and Libraries

 * State Archives in Poland

Addresses

 * Genealogienetz addresses for Prussian Research

Cemeteries

 * War graves in Poland

Church Records

 * Addresses for Polish parishes
 * Church Records of Ostpreussen and other areas
 * Church Records of Ostpreussen and other areas
 * Churchbooks of Memelland
 * Lutheran Church of Poland
 * Catholic Diocese of Poland

Civil Registration

 * Civil Registration in the county Sensburg
 * Civil Registration records in county Mohrungen
 * Address finder for Civil Registration offices in Poland (USC)

Directories

 * Historic Address book database

Gazetteers

 * East and West Prussian gazetteers Place name listing
 * Kartenmeister Place name finder which provides German and Polish names of localities, as well as other researchers of that village
 * Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of localities in Poland and Russia
 * Meyers Orts und Verkehrs Lexikon online with Ancestry free account signup

Genealogy

 * The Quassowski Kartei of about 350,000 entries
 * Batchnumber index for IGI

General Information

 * General Information about Ostpreussen
 * Helps for Researchers
 * General information for East Prussia
 * General East Prussian Research
 * Genealogy Databanks, and lots of good information regarding research
 * Pictures posted of many localities around the world
 * List of archaic medical terms
 * Grimms German dictionary containing archaic and historic words
 * The World Fact book with regional maps, flags, guides to countries and current news
 * PolishWorld.com site with lots of Polish information
 * PolandGenWeb site
 * Helpful databases for Polish research

History

 * History of Prussia
 * History Guide including all areas of Europe
 * The History of Poland
 * Polish timeline

Jewish Records

 * Jewish Records Indexing project in Poland

Language and Languages

 * Lexikon of the German Language

Maps

 * Mapping Europe's Historic Boundaries and Borders
 * Maps of the German Empire
 * German Empire map
 * Modern Polish online atlas
 * Name mapping in Poland
 * name mapping in Germany

Military Records

 * Lost persons in the military

Newspapers

 * including newspapers in the Baltic regions

Nobility

 * Nobility worldwide

Occupations

 * Old German occupations

Periodicals

 * Poland American Journal

Regional

 * The Ermland Area
 * Family Research in Ermland
 * Family Research in Samland
 * The region of Memelland
 * The Karpauen Kirchspiel
 * Churchbooks of Westmasuren and its villages
 * Homepage for Genealogy in Neidenburg-Ortelsburg area
 * Churchbooks of the Gumbinnen area
 * Homeland Society for research in the Bartenstein area
 * Parisih information of the Diocese of Sensburg 1912
 * the Lithuanian localities of former East Prussia
 * Masuria Region
 * Indexes of Place Names in Lithuania Minor

Societies

 * The Society For German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
 * Place names for the county Mohrungen
 * Society for East German Family Researchers Agoff
 * The Federation of East European family History Societies
 * Polish Genealogical Society of America