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German Genealogy

General Resource Sites

• Ahnenforschung.net (In German)
   
• Archives in Germany
   
• Cyndi's List - Germany / Deutschland - Germany category index of culture, genealogical sources, history, mailing lists, documents and on-line information.
   
• Distant Cousin German Genealogical Resources
   
• Federation of East European Family History Societies' German Genealogy Cross-Index
  
• Find Your Roots in Germany. Links for researchers and travellers.
   
• Free Access to German Genealogy Records
   
• Genealogylinks.net - Germany  - Many links to German-research sites.
   
• Genealogy.net - Genealogy.net, the German genealogy Internet portal. Servers are located in Kerpen and Giessen (Germany) and Clovis, California (USA). The documents on this site are written in English, German or both mixed. This site enables one to contact regional German genealogy societies, search their databases, contact corresponding researchers, search databases submitted by others, submit one's own data, search for the location of villages and search an expanding list of online data from Ortsfamilienbücher (town heritage books). There are sample letters, printable forms, old measurement conversions, translation help for several languages and a list of resources covering emigration to America. They are also working on posting old German address books. There are links to regional newsgroups through which one can post queries for others researching the same area.
   
• German Genealogy - Articles on German genealogy, research services, records, surname studies, newsletters, history and culture, maps and more. Search a coat of arms registry, index of New England Naturalization Petitions covering 1791-1906 that includes mostly German nationals. Also includes a German travel center sponsored by Travelocity.com.
   
• German Genealogy Group
   
• German Genealogy Site - Contains old maps, information about surnames, etc.
   
• German Genealogy Internet Sources - by Andreas Hanacek.
   
• German Genealogy Links - Dedicated to German Heritage Everywhere!
   
• German Genealogy Links - GenealogyLinks.net
   
• German Genealogy Links - von Klaus Bartels. (German)
   
• German Genealogy and Research Articles - ProGenealogists, Family History Research Group
   
• German Genealogy Resources on the Internet - by Christine Gaunt and John Fuller.
   
• German Roots - Research Information for Americans of German Descent.
   
• Germanic Ancestors Guide - RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees.
   
• Germanic Genealogy - Genealogy resources, how-to's, German-English glossaries, and other help for tracing your Germanic roots.
   
• Germanic Genealogy: The German Way
   
• Germany GenWeb
   
• Odessa ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library. Has a special focus on Germans from Russia. This includes a "library" of references on the subject, with pointers to other genealogical sources, and pointers to other Internet sources of information on Eastern European countries.
   
• The Palatine Project.  The Palatine Project is an attempt using sources from German speaking countries as well as early colonial American sources to reconstruct the passenger lists of Germans who came to America in the first large wave of emigration in the 18th century.
   
• ProGenealogists Family History Genealogy Group. Gazetteers, local history, maps, articles and more about how to understand genealogical research in German records.
   
• Ramsperger's Home Page - Genealogie, Heraldik und Geschichte von Josef Ramsperger. (German)
   
• Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet. Research Information for Americans of German Descent.
   
• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe. This web site is devoted to the study of those people with German ancestry (generally of the Lutheran, Baptist, or Moravian faiths) who lived in present-day Poland and northwestern Ukraine. Special emphasis is placed on those who lived in the pre-WW I province of Volhynia (generally from the city of Kiev on the east to the present-day Polish border on the west) and on the pre-WW I region of central and eastern modern Poland known as Russian Poland or Congress Poland. Peripheral studies include the Kiev and Podolia provinces in Ukraine, and the regions of West and East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania as well as Galicia which was under Austrian rule.