German Genealogy
German Genealogy Newsgroups & Mailing Lists
Mailing Lists
The following mailing lists are maintained at lists.rootsweb.com. To subscribe to a list concerning your area of interest, send an e-mail message to: <list name>-request @rootsweb.com. In the message area type: subscribe. The "l" below is "el" and not the number 1.
- baden.wurttemberg-l
- bavaria-l
- deu-thueringen-1
- franken-1 (For northern Bavaria)
- gen-de-l (discussion of German genealogy)
- german-kingdoms-l (For Duchies of Thuringen; Braunschweig; Lippe; Oldenburg; Waldeck; Mecklenburg-Schwering; Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- hannover-l
- hesse-l
- mecklenburg-l
- nordrhein-westfalen-l
- oldenburg-l (For Grandduchy of Oldenburg)
- ostfriesen-l
- ow-preussen-l (For East & West Prussia)
- pfalz-l (Palatine)
- pommern-l (For Pomerania)
- posen-l
- prussia-roots-l (For Brandenburg, Hannover, Ostpreussen, Pommern, Posen, Provinz Sachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Schlesien, Westpreussen, Lubeck, Hamburg, Bremen)
- sachsen-anhalt-l (For current state of Sachsen-Anhalt)
- schleswig-holstein-roots-l
- trier-roots-l (Discussion of Luxembourg, Saarland, Rheinland, Westfalen, Pfalz)
- westfalen-l (Westphalia)
GERMAN-LIFE-l Mailing List (To subscribe: GERMAN-LIFE-L-request@cultures.rootsweb.com )
Newsgroups
- Newsgroup:
soc.genealogy.computing . Questions to computer genealogy,
most postings in English.
- Newsgroup:
soc.genealogy.german . Genealogy of the German language
area, most postings in English.
- Newsgroup:
soc.genealogy.methods General questions to methods of
worldwide genealogy , most postings in English.
- Newsgroup:
soc.genealogy.misc Miscellaneous to worldwide genealogy ,
most postings in English.
- Newsgroup:
soc.genealogy.slavic Miscellaneous to the genealogy of the
East European countries [also former German areas] , most
postings in English.
- Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.surnames Moderated newsgroup for worldwide research on certain surnames / single persons , most postings in English.