German Genealogy
Family Histories
See also Local Histories and Nobility, Aristocracy, Lineage, Heraldry and Coats of Arms
- Die Ahnen deutscher Bauernführer. Bd. 1-37. Berlin:
Reichsnährstand Verlags-GmbH., 1935-36. (Peasant leaders)
- The "Ahnenstammkartei des deutschen Volkes" started in 1922
and ceased to accept new contributions in 1993; it is maintained
by the
Deutsche Zentralstelle für Genealogie (E) /
(D),
Leipzig. It is a collection of genealogies of persons and
families of Central Europe, mostly German. In 1991-1992 the
Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, microfilmed the
whole collection and the films are available through LDS/FHC
centers except in Germany. This filming contains approximately
2,700,000 personal names on 1219 microfilm rolls. A second, much
smaller filming, made after the collection closed, covered the
accessions subsequent to the first filming. This filming
contains perhaps 200,000 personal names on 19 microfilm rolls,
and is not indexed and unordered. An index of the 153 major
family surnames in this collection is available on the FEEFHS
Index of
Family Surnames from the Ahnenstammkartei Second Filming.
Further information on the Ahnenstammkartei may be found on the
FEEFHS
Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes HomePage.
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Database of
Brakel/Erkeln Families - Online database of about 10,000
individuals who lived in Brakel/Erkeln (Nordrhein-Westfalen).
- Deutsches
Familienarchiv (German Family Archive). - Was founded in
1952 and lists links to Ancestor lists, Family histories, very
often with historical cultural -historical relations, with
references for bibliography and sources, coat of arms and other
details. Has numerous surnames collected in articles, ancestor
tables and Ahnenlisten.
- Friedrichs, Heinz F. Gesamtregister zum Deutschen Familenarchiv. Bände 1-50. 2. Auflage. Neustadt an der Aisch: 1980. ISBN 3-7686-2025-5
- Friedrichs, Heinz F. Gesamtregister zum Deutschen Familienarchiv. Bände 51-75. Neustadt an der Aisch: 1981. ISBN 3-7686-2029-8
- Friedrichs, Heinz F. Gesamtregister zum Deutschen
Familenarchiv. Bände 76-100. Neustadt an der Aisch:
1989. ISBN 3-7686-2047-6
- Deutsches Geschlechterbuch. (German Lineage Books)
Vol. 1- , 1889- to date. Charlottenburg: F. Mahler (etc.),
1889- .(194+ volumes. Middle class, Bürger genealogies)
Collected genealogies of generally upper-class German families.
Every surname indexing in each volume. Cumulative indexing of
families who are subjects of articles in volumes 1- 185 in
Stammfolgen-Verzeichnisse: Genealogische Handbuch des Adels und
Deutsches Geschlechterbuch.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Glücksburg/Ostsee
: C.A. Starke, 1951- (Aristocracy)
- Heinzmann, Franz, and Christoph Lenhartz. Bibliographie
gedruckter Familiengeschichten 1946-1960. (Bibliography of
printed family histories, 1946-1960). Düsseldorf: F.
Heinzmann, 1990.
- Online
Ortsfamilienbücher -Online heritage books. Family books
about a village, parish or community in which they list the
families who lived in the area and their vital data. They
usually start with the earliest records and alphabetically list
everyone by surname, with each family numbered for easy
identification. Genealogy.net.
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Ortssippenbücher. A few German towns have published
Ortssippenbuecher, or genealogies of all the people who lived in
the town.
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Ortsfamilien Bücher - Family Name Books
- Schrifttumsbericht zur Genealogie und zu ihren
Nachbargebieten, 6. Literaturbericht, Oktober 1968.
- Semigothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch. München:
Kyffhäuser, 1913. (Jewish-aristocratic alliances)
- Stammfolgen-Verzeichnisse für das genealogische Handbuch
des Adels und das deutsche Geschlechterbuch. (Index of the
Genealogical Handbook of Nobility and the German Lineage Books).
Limburg/Lahn: C.A. Starke, 1969.