German Interest Group
GERMAN ONLINE RESOURCES (links current as of November 2015)(last updated Jun 2017)
German Interest Group (GIG) of Eastside Genealogical Society
Some sites may require translation. See the Translation Help section at the end of this document.
For additions or corrections, please to send an email with details to GIG at GermanInterestGroupEGS@
General Research:
Most-used genealogy data subscription site
WIKI Wiki for site
FamilySearch The Family History Library website
Family History Center Portal List of premium online research databases available at the Family History Center
rootsweb. Rootsweb The oldest and largest free genealogical community
US GenWeb Information for almost every county in the US; content is highly variable
Cyndi's List Links for family history
One-Step Webpages Tools for finding and aiding a variety of record research
King County Library System Premium DBs under Learning & Research tab. Ancestry Library Edition available only on site. Other genealogical DBs accessible from home with card
Seattle Public Library With library card you can view some of their genealogy databases at home
(in 14 languages) Wikipedia Free, collaboratively written online encyclopedia
ngw.nl Heraldry of the world Civic heraldry only i.e. coats of arms of cities, states, municipalities, countries etc.
Family Tree Magazine 101 Best 2016 Websites
GenWiki German version has more info than the English one.
Ancestry research on the Internet
German Evangelical Church Records Online: Archion.de Blog article about Archion.de
German Immigrants in American Church Records GIACR series of extracted information about German immigrants from records of American churches
German Genealogy Research Basics
From Here to There
Using Maps
Using Social Media
Where Do I Find Them?
6 Genealogy Sources to Find Your German Ancestor’s Place of Origin
Germany:
Milan Pohontsch Video on German Online Sources
Milan Pohontsch Syllabus to German Online Sources video (6 page syllabus is full of URLs & many may not be included in our URL lists)
Germanroots Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet
Germanroots Databases Online German Genealogy Records & DBs
Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) Links to many helpful sources of information
Research Guides, Tips, Online Records See section on ‘German Genealogy Research’
Research Center for German Documents by Ancestry
FamilySearch Wiki Links to info on countries in Central Europe including Germany
WorldGenWeb World-wide genealogical and historical records and resources
Online local heritage books Info on church books, town history
German GenWiki Wiki for German genealogy, many links under multiple topics
Kartenmeister Town locator, dictionaries, history
German Costs $ to access records; only available in Germany
MyHeritage.de German version of
GenWeb Germany Links to websites
8 FamilySearch Features You’re Not Using
FamilySearch Wiki German Research Websites
Many Prussian/German Genealogy Help. Several hundred free help tools & advice.
Many Guidance and access to more free help areas
Google books for German (or other) languages
Permission to Leave? Article on where you may find these records
Family Tree magazine (Jan 2008) article about records of German immigrants arriving through New Orleans & traveling north on the Mississippi. Available through KCLS courtesy of Beth Snyder of GIG.
Archives & Databases:
Meta search site for databases from the website
German website for searching some databases
Directory of German Archives Try the Staatliche Archive (Staatsarchive) and Kirchenarchive (Church archives) listed there.
Wiki German Genealogy Archives Links to: Archives, Family Archives, Church Archives, State Archives, and University Archives.
German Central Office for Genealogy
(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) Germany Births and Baptisms, Coverage Table (FamilySearch Historical Records) Places & time periods for records in collection
Archion.de Archive for Germany's Protestant church books
article about German Church records & Archion.de
GEDBAS This database of user-uploaded GERMAN genealogy files includes nearly 15 million individuals in a 5.4 million families.
German Discussion Boards / Forums / Mailing Lists:
geneal- Geneal-Forum Discussion board, Your own Genealogy Blog, Your own Genealogy Tree
German Genealogy Discussion Forums Choose which ones you want to read, as a foreign visitor, or you can register to subscribe to a list(s) and ask questions.
German Public Mailing Lists Public mailing lists on list..
Alberta Gen Soc Lists of websites for East European Records Online
Matricula online church registers DBs for Austria, Germany & Poland
German Emigration:
dad-recherche.de German Emigrants Database (DAD) Database of European emigration to the United States. Information about people who left in the period 1820-1897, 1904 and partially in 1907 from mainly German ports. rootdigger.de/emi.htm Schleswig-Holstein Emigration Database 19th century emigrations
auswanderer-bw.de Emigration from Southwest Germany Emigration list from Baden-Württenberg
+ (Newsletter excerpt) Lists of books for Passenger Lists Rescued by Clifford Neal Smith – check Worldcat & Interlibrary Loan for them
Hamburg: European Rates of Fare Fares from the Interior of Germany, Austria & Switzerland to Hamburg & Havre in January 1885
German Handwriting:
BYU Script Tutorial Make sense of old handwriting
Omniglot:German Online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
Suetterlin Script All about Suetterlin script
Kurrentschrift See what your surname looks like in old script
Germany Handwriting Old German gothic & Sütterlin Handwriting Examples and Tools including a Script Generator, Tutorials and Classes.
Tips for Deciphering Old German Handwriting
10 More Tips Deciphering Old German Writing
7 Websites for Deciphering Old German Script
Kurrent Wikipedia page for an old form of German handwriting
Font-generator Generates old German writing (Sütterlin and Kurrent scripts) from your input
Converting bet old Germanic Print and Cursive in 1 Step
German Word Lists (also see Language heading):
German Genealogical Word List German words with their English translations
Kartenmeister Terms and words used in their database showing equivalents in German-English-Polish.
GenWiki Portal encyclopedias Section with occupations and diseases
Glossary of German genealogical words
19 Common Abbreviations in German Gen
Der Familienstammbaum occupations list (in German)
abkuerzungen.de type German abbreviation to see German word
Abbreviations-in-church-records file
GenWiki’s Abkurzungen site Abbreviations
Type beginning or end of word, get list of all the possible German words with those exact beginnings or endings
Deutsches Worterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm A great German-German dictionary for old-fashioned German words
German Genealogy Glossary
Jewish Research:
JewishGen Databases of Jewish surnames, towns, Holocaust victims, burials, family trees
Center for Jewish History, Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute Inventory of LDS Microfilms and Microfiche.
Routes to Roots Foundation Guide to Jewish/Civil records in East Europe
Latin Word Lists: (when translating old Catholic church records)
FamilySearch Latin words
Kartenmeister Latin-German-English
Language (Translations, Dictionaries, Symbols, Dialect Map, Learning, Names):
Google Translate Free translator for words, phrases, documents, webpages
BabelFish Enter word or phrase, translate into 14 languages or to English
Words & doc(x), .ppt(x), .odt, .pdf & .txt up to 5MB file size
English-German dictionary Translation site & don’t need whole word
SYSTRANet Free online translator
Many languages translated
LEOs Online dictionaries Go to “English” & fill in Leo box
BEOLINGUS Online Dictionary
Online Dictionary
Linguee English-German Dictionary
German Language Translation tools & websites
joycep.myweb.port.ac.uk/pronounce Guide to German Pronunciation
Polish-English / English-Polish translations
Slavic language dictionaries Slavic language dictionaries
German Dialect Map Excellent map of Germanic dialects & Wikipedia
article on the German language
German dialects Includes map of dialects spoken
Slow German Free podcast
Mango Languages Simple language and culture learning in over 70 languages
DuoLingo Learn a language
Learn German by Podcast Real-life German for everyday conversation
German language/surnames
Common German Names & Nicknames
Deutsche Welle Free online course
Deutsche Welle Audiotrainer free podcast
Language Surfer Pass the German A1 Test
GenWiki How to Type German Umlaut Words and more Symbols
Hellenic Hist & Gen Assoc International Genealogical Symbols
German-English Dictionary with Sentence Examples
German Dictionary if You Don't Know the Entire Word
WordMine Play “hangman”; usedful site when trying to decipher foreign documents
Roman Numeral Helps convert roman numeral dates/years seen in church books
Maps & Town Locators:
Meyers Online Gazetteer See English translation for entered place names
Step by Step Video for using Meyersgaz
Meyers Orts Gazetteer of the German Empire Locate place names in German research. Includes all areas that were part of the pre-World War I (WWI) German Empire.
FamilySearch guide to German abbreviations used in Meyers
Germany Gazetteers Includes Meyers Orts.
Kartenmeister Town locator.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Germany maps 800 to present.
PolanGenWeb Town locators for former German towns
FEEFHS Go to Maps and Gazetteers section
JewishGen Gazetteer (formerly ShtetlSeeker) Town locator
Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein
Aids in tracing family origins in any part of the German empire from the late 19th century to early 20th century.
Index of names of localities in Poland & Russia
Multi- Explore the earth with Google Earth Maps, Bing Maps and MapQuest.
germany.travel/en/index.html German National Tourist Board Best online modern-day maps
ViaMichelin Maps & Route Planner
Onlinestreet If you know at least some of the letters in your street name, this can help you recognize the correct transcription of the word
Article explains how Ancestry enters locations in some of their DB’s
German Railroad 1835 – 1885
Emigrant's Map and Guide for Routes to North America
Phone Books:
Das Telefonbuch German telephone book*
Polish telephone book*
*No street address details for either but useful to determine whether any people with a particular surname are still living in the ancestral village/area, etc.
Berlin Directory for the years 1799 to 1943
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN Address Book for the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein and the principality of Lübeck
Photos:
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Photos from various locations; enter or select a place.
Reference:
Deutschepost German Postal System’s website
FamilySearch Germany Letter Writing Guide
German Civil Registrations Guide
FamilySearch Video Learning (many subjects including 19 about Germany)
Research in Different German Regions:
Deutsch Lands History about some parts of Germany.
Baden Archives State Archive Freiburg. State and local records from 1806.
More info at:
Black Forest Website Genealogy site devoted to the Black Forest region.
Verzeichnis der online gestellten Microfilme Brandenburgischer Kirchenbuchduplikate Directory of online questions re Brandenburgischer church book microfilm duplicates
Eifel Birth and Marriage Data Tom Pick’s extensive database of the Eifel region.
fehmarn- Fehmarn Genealogy Site Fehmarn is a small island off the coast of Schleswig Holstein.
North Frisian Emigrant-Archive
Hessen Archives Links for finding Evangelical and Catholic church registers, contact information and genealogical terms. Other miscellaneous information.
New German Ortsfamilienbuch: Lorsch (Hesse) plus surrounding towns Hessen-L German-language genealogical mailing list for Family Research in Hesse and former Hessian areas
Provincial Archives of Southern Jutland
Archivschule Marburg
akvz.de Arbeitskreis Volkszahl-Register Devoted to Northern Germany and Baltic Sea area (former duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, the Principality of Luebeck and the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin).
Odessa Digital Library Digital library of cultural and family history of Germans who emigrated to Russia in the 1800s.
Ostfriesen Genealogical Society of America The genealogy website for those with ancestors from the Ostfriesland area of Germany.
Upstalsboom-Society Gravestones from Ostfriesland, Germany
The 1709ers – German Palatinates
Pommern Genealogy Useful links for Pommern Researchers
Researching Pommern Ancestors
genealogy- Genealogy- Genealogy in Schleswig-Holstein administered by Hans Peter Voss
State Archives of Schleswig-Holstein
rootdigger.de/emi.htm Schleswig-Holstein Emigration Database 19th century emigrations
collections/land/wprussia/ West Prussian Land Records
Remains Of A Day: East Prussia (Ostpreußen) Today also links to many WW II articles
Germans from Russia
Germans from Russia Settlement Locations blog. Google maps of the locations of German settlements in the Russian and Austrian empires from 1763 into the early 20th century
Surname Distribution:
worldnames/ Public Profiler World Names A world map that shows the distribution of surnames throughout the world, countries and localities, plus frequencies of the names
Map of the surname Surname search providing map with approximate number of individuals of that name in regions of Germany. Options for other countries.
Locate My Name Find distribution of names across countries and regions
Historic Addressbooks Database. Search for surname and a map with areas in Germany where there are hits comes up.
Ken McCrea's GermanNames Maps of Surnames in Germany using Telephone Listings
Geogen Surname Mapping Surname Distribution Maps using phonebook listings
Geogen 4.0 Frequency of a last name in the different regions of Germany
christoph. christoph. GeoGen’s site of maps of German surname distribution
Genevolu Surname distribution based on 1942 & 1998 telephone directories
Facebook Group: Surname Distribution Maps
Genealoger Links to genealogy of German Names
Verwandt Surname distribution in Germany
Verwandt Surname distribution in Switzerland
Moikrewni Surname distribution in Poland
Forebears Meanings & Distribution of Surnames
Websites for German genealogy societies:
GenWiki Portal:Clubs Genealogy societies in German-speaking countries
GenWiki Assoc: Genealogical societies abroad
(DAGV)/DAGV/Guide Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogischer Verbände (DAGV) Genealogical research in Germany. A large number of links to websites are included, some for the USA, some for Germany, some for the previous East Germany
Branches of the Genealogical Society “Red Eagle”
Rheinland-Pfalz See links to genealogy societies
ASF Genealogy society in Saarland
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe Germans from Russian Poland and Volhynia
The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
Webinars & Videos:
BYU FHL Webinar Series Beginning German Research
Top Tips for Beginning German Family History Research
The German Genealogy Girl’s Podcast
Luther and the Reformation – video by Rick Steves
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Miscellaneous:
dw-world.de DW Very up-to-date European news in English language. Also has free online language lessons.
Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) Current news, Regional Churches tab has short history and map
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