German Genealogy

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Finding places in old Germany:

ShtetlSeeker: http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm

GEOserv (email process): http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/geoserv.html

German Place Database: http://www.saxonyroots.com/place/index.php?lang=en

Topography Keyword list with links to sources: http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/digitaletexte_keywords.html
   in German

German Maps: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/german-maps.html

Genealogy.net (German & English): http://genealogy.net

Germany GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/

Links for German Genealogy on the Internet: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/germanlinks.html

Ahnenforschung.net (in German; IRC chat as well as information): http://ahnenforschung.net/ and http://alsachat.net/wiki/index.php/ahnenforschung.net

Evangelische Archives in Germany: http://www.ekd.de/archive/deutsch/regionen.htm

Pfalz: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/pfalz.html

Passenger Departure Lists of German Emigrants, 1709-1914: http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/articles/gdepart.htm

Emigration Lists of Hamburg, 1890 to 1914 (free to search for names, $$$ for complete results of birthplace, state of origin, etc.): http://fhh1.hamburg.de/fhh/behoerden/staatsarchiv/link_to_your_roots/english/index.htm

Emigration from/through Bremen & Bremerhaven 1920-1939 - Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank (DAD): http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/enframeset.htm
Bremen Passenger Lists 1920-1939: http://www.schiffslisten.de/index.php?lang=en

French Emigration Indexes: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/french-emigration-indexes.html

German History in Postcards: http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/
   Click the "Translate this Page" link to see the English version.

Directory of several towns in the Rheinland state of Germany, including lists of births and marriages from the 1600s - 1800s. Some files have 15,000 records! Use Control-F (find) to search each set of records.

"The area covered is quite large, mostly west of the Rhein (Rhine) River up to Koblenz, Bernkastel, Bitburg, the Mosel Valley, over to Trier, and south toward the Saar." http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/wgff/trier/Familienbuecher

Westdeutsche Gesellschaft fur Familienkunde e.V (in German): http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/wgff/

Home page in English: http://www.genealogienetz.de/index_en.html or http://www.genealogy.net.

- From an article in Rootsweb Review, quoting Jan Hart (12 July 2006, Vol. 9, No. 28)

Language Translation: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/language-translation.html

Deciphering Older Writing: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/deciphering-older-writing.html

Naming customs in Germany and France: http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2004/02/naming-customs-in-germany-and-france.html

Alsace Genealogy Lists: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/alsace-genealogy-lists.html

Alsace: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/alsace.html

Lorraine: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/lorraine.html

European Research: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/european-research.html


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