Silesia (Schlesien) Research Websites

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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 Silesia (Schlesien) Online Genealogy Records for data about people who lived in Silesia (Schlesien). 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. [

Archives and Libraries

 * State Archives in Poland
 * University Archives in Breslau/Wroclaw

Addresses

 * Genealogienetz addresses for Prussian Research

Churches

 * Catholic Diocese of Poland
 * Information about churchbooks of Schlesien around 1900
 * Addresses for Polish parishes

Civil Registration

 * Address finder for Civil Registration offices in Poland (USC)

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
 * List of Ortsfamilienbücher for Schlesien
 * Data bases with focus on Kreis Militsch, Kreis Wohlau-Steinau, and Silesia (Schlesien) general

General Information

 * Helps for Researchers
 * 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
 * Historical Museum of Schlesien
 * Digitized address books, historical and other items about Schlesien
 * Digital library
 * Research in Poland
 * Haus Schlesien, Culture and Genealogy
 * Lots of GREAT Schlesien information from Dr. Claus Christoph

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

 * Old Maps of Germany, Kingdom of Prussia, Europe
 * 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

 * Newspapers
 * Volkswacht Breslau Newspaper available for the years 1891-1925.

Nobility

 * Nobility worldwide

Occupations

 * Old German occupations

Periodicals

 * Poland American Journal

Regional

 * Database of Church records of Lauterbach and Langseifersdorf
 * Historical Einwohnerbücher of Kreis Hirschberg im Riesengebirge
 * Parish towns of Germans and Wends of the Lausitz Region
 * Schweidnitz research
 * Evangelical research in the Oberlausitz area
 * Databank for Militsch, Wohlau-Steinau and Schlesien
 * Excellent site for Kreis Lüban
 * Oberschlesien research A listing of many websites, including address books of some cities, to help with research in this area.

Societies

 * The Society For German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
 * Society for East German Family Researchers Agoff
 * The Federation of East European family History Societies
 * Polish Genealogical Society of America
 * Addresses of German Research groups with emphasis on certain former German Kreise which are now in Poland
 * Regional homeland research in Kreis Brieg, Gross Wartenberg and Kreis Namslau
 * The Society For German Genealogy in Eastern Europe