German Research Websites

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Archives

 * Association of Protestant Church Archives
 * Archives in Germany - Hanacek (2000)
 * Archives in Nordrhein-Westfalen
 * 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
 * [[Media:Localities.pdf|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 [[Media:Archive_Add_.pdf|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

 * 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
 * Information on many calendar systems around the world

Churches

 * 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

 * German Colonies

Concentration Camps

 * Displaced persons and slave labor and concentration camps This is an excellent site which is still somewhat under construction.
 * Holocaust Victims killed in Czech Concentration Camps
 * International Tracing Service

Culture

 * Village celebration (in German)

Databases

 * Emigration from Southwest Germany
 * Historische Adressbuecher - Eine Sekundärquelle fuer die Familienforschung
 * IGI batch number search 
 * Poznan Project - marriage records from Posen, 1800-1899
 * Schleswig census
 * Schleswig-Holstein census
 * Wehdem Parish Records online
 * Westfalen Family Name search
 * German Gravesite database
 * Metasearch searches data in GedBas, Datenbank Historischer Adressbücher, Foko,Forschungsdatenbanken der Vereine, Online Ortsfamilienbücher, Familienanzeigen, and Volkszahlregister Schleswig Holstein

Digital Libraries

 * 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
 * Szczecin State Archives online records in Pommerania, civil and church records included
 * Links to online records for Wroclaw/Breslau Standesamt 1
 * Links to online records for Wroclaw/Breslau Standesamt 1 (Another jumping off point)
 * Link to Breslau Standesamt III This covers 1891-1911. This Standesamt (civil registration office) existed from 1891-1945.

Directories

 * German Online Telephone Book
 * historic address books

Emigration and Immigration

 * Emigration from Southwest Germany
 * Emigration via Bremen
 * Galveston-Bremen Project
 * 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_19th_Century_German_Emigrants|Internet Resources for Finding Origins of German 19th Century Emigrants]]
 * Pre-1820 Emigration from Germany
 * German colonists to Middle Poland

Category: Germany

Gazetteers - general

 * Using Meyer's Gazetteer
 * Meyers Gazetteer online part 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 former 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 publicationsfor sale
 * Genealogy Search Engine Mocavo
 * [http://wiki.dis-danmark.dk/index.php/Familienforschung_in_D%C3%A4nemark This is a great German-language reference on doing research in Denmark

General Information

 * Wikipedia
 * Deutschland auf einen Blick! - links to maps of modern German states with tourist information, especially hotels
 * Currency Converter
 * Deutsche Post
 * Language Tools - Google
 * [http://www.meinestadt.de/ Meine Stadt.de
 * German missing persons search site (from WWII)

Handwriting

 * 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

 * German Town Name Meanings
 * Kartenmeister

Jewish

 * Jewish Genealogy FamilySearch Wiki article
 * List of Ashkenazic Synagogues
 * Avotaynu website Jewish Genealogy Roots, Research, History, Names, Surnames, Jewish Family Trees
 * Auschwitz webpage

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'sDictionary 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
 * 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

 * Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) - has information about WWI and WWII soldiers who were killed or missing in action
 * Glossaryof German military terms.

Names - personal

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

Newspapers
Although a digital archive of US newspapers, these can also be useful in searching for German ancestors.

Occupations

 * German Society for the historical mills of Germany
 * Register of Pastors of Sachsen

Regional Research Websites

 * Culm area


 * Brandenburg research

Research Guides

 * Genealogy.net/genealogy- English home page of Genealogy.net, the German Internet portal
 * Research helps for Hessen
 * Book: The German Research Companion, (link to publisher)
 * German Roots: Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet
 * BYU PDF Research Outlines
 * 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)
 * German Church Record helpful hints

Social History

 * 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 that 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
Links to the major German genealogical societes are easily accessed through Genealogy.net at the Vereine (societies) portal


 * FEEFHS - Eastern European Genealogy
 * 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
 * German genealogy resources at the Max-Kade Institute
 * German Genealogy Group with links to New York City

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