Germany: General Genealogical Information

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Contents:

• General
• Genealogical and Historical Societies
• Genealogical and Historical Records
• Gazetteers and Maps
• Bibliography, Genealogical Works, Periodicals
• Archives and Libraries
• Miscellaneous Subjects (Publishers, Phone Books, Emigration,...)
• Other Resources (including Internet)
• Predecessor States, Historical- and Geographic Regions

General Information

• Description of present-day Germany
  • Germany (Geography, People, Government,...)
    <URL:http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/brd.html>
• Religious Divisions:
  • Roman Catholic Church
  • Evangelical Church
• History
  • Deutsche Geschichte in Daten [German History in Dates, in German]
    <URL:http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/history.html>
  • Prof. Gerhard Rempel's site on Germany with 49 lectures on German history
    <URL:ttp://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/home.html>
  • Deutsche Könige, Kaiser, Staatschefs
    <URL:http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/de-kks.html>
  • WW-Person, data base of the higher nobility in the Holy Roman Empire
    <URL:http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/ww-person.html>
  • Descendants of Charlemagne
    <URL:http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/chl-enter.html>

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Genealogical and Historical Societies

• List of Genealogical Associations and Societies in Germany
• Historical Societies

Genealogical and Historical Records

• Church Records
• Civil Registration Records
  Civil registration records begin in 1876 in most of Germany and as early as 1792 in some areas.
• Other Records
  • Census
  • Citizenship
  • Education [Hochschulen]
  • Emigration and Immigration
    • Einwanderungszentralstelle (EWZ) Anträge (Immigration Center Applications)
  • Land
  • Military
  • Tax

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Gazetteers and Maps

• Gazetteers:
  • GEOserv, Information about online search for places in Germany
  • GEOnet Names Server, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, US
    <URL:http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html>
• Atlases and Maps

Bibliography

• Bibliography
• Genealogical Works
  • Adressbücher
  • Ortsfamilienbücher: see our List of Ortsfamilienbücher (or Ortssippenbücher)
• Periodicals:
  • COMPUTERGENEALOGIE, erscheint 2x pro Jahr. Preis: 14 DM (+ Porto).
    Bezug: Karl B. Thomas, Postfach 1709, D-59857 Meschede
  • GENEALOGIE, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Familienkunde, Verlag Degener
• Genealogical Dictionaries

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Archives and Libraries

• Archives
  • Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives)
    including the holdings of the former "Berlin Document Center" and the Lastenausgleicharchiv (financial compensation for those suffering loss in war archive) (German)
  • Military Archives
    Note: when contacting these archives, submit all the information you have about the person you are looking for: full name, birthdate, company or batallion he served in, last contact, etc.
    • Deutsche Dienststelle (German Services)
    • Additional Information about Military archives
    • Search Service of the German Red Cross (Suchdienst des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes):
      For searching for lost and missing during wars. Address:
      DRK-Suchdienst
      Chiemgaustrasse 109
      D-81549 München
      Tel. 0 89/ 68 07 73 -0, Fax 0 89/ 68 07 45 92
      Answers to requests can take over six months to fulfill, sometimes almost a year.
    • Bundesarchiv-Zentralnachweisstelle (ZNS) (Federal Archives)
      Address: Abteigarten 6, 52076 Aachen Eichenborndamm 179, 13400 Berlin
    • Other Military archives
      by Andreas Hanacek
  • List of Other Archives
    (State and Private Archives, Church Archives, Military Archives, Special Archives, URL:http://www.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/earchive.htm, by Andreas Hanacek)
• Libraries
  • Guide to Libraries On-line
  • LDS/FHC (Family History Centers of the Church of Latter Days Saints (Mormons))
• Regional Archives and Libraries in
  • Baden-Württemberg
  • Bayern (in German)
  • Brandenburg (in German)
  • Bremen (in German)
  • Hamburg
  • Hessen: Archive, Bibliotheken (in German)
  • Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Niedersachsen (in German)
  • Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German)
  • Rhinland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz)
  • Saarland (in German)
  • Sachsen (in German)
  • Sachsen-Anhalt (in German)
  • Schleswig-Holstein (in German)
  • Thüringen (in German)

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Miscellaneous Subjects

• Publishers
• Phone books
  Accessing Telephone Records
• Professional Researchers
  • SCHROEDER & FUELLING GbR, Gummersbach, Germany
    Private company specialized in German genealogical research: Family History Research, German Emigration 18th-20th Century, Adoption Research & Heir Tracing
    (URL:http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/German_Genealogy, DE)
  • Verband deutschsprachiger Berufsgenealogen e.V.
    c/o Manuel Aicher, Vogelaustrasse 34, CH-8953 Dietikon, Switzerland
    Tel.: 0041/1/7422083, Fax: 0041/1/7422084, e-mail: aicher@eyekon.ch
    This is the professional organization of genealogists in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Inquiries are passed on to the members of regional competence.
• Customs
• Emigration:
  Emigration from Germany to Amerika
• Occupations
  • Genealogical German-English Dictionaries of Old Professions and Common Causes of Death, by Oliver Weiss
    <http://home.navisoft.com/scrolls/dictinry.htm>
• Etymology
• Events
  Current events / aktuelle Veranstalltungen

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Other Resources (including Internet)

• Mailing Lists, Germany/Prussia Mailing Lists, by John Fuller
  <URL:http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-ger.html>
• Databases:
  • FOKO (WWW Interface to FOrscher KOntakte Database)
    (URL:http://foko.genealogy.net by DAGV)
• Miscellaneous Resources, non-genealogical:
  • Informationsangebot der Bundesregierung
    <URL:http://www.bundesregierung.de/ >, Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, Bonn
  • German News
    <URL:http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/de-news/ >
  • Cities in Germany, alphabetical List
    <URL:http://www.city.net/countries/germany/ >
  • Max Kade/SGAS Home Page,
    Max Kade German-American Center and Society for German-American Studies
    <URL:http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/ >
  • H-GERMAN Homepage, Serving Professional Historians of Germany Around the World
    <URL:http://h-net2.msu.edu/~german/ >

Predecessor States, Historical- and Geographic Regions

• Predecessor States
• Historical- and Geographic Regions

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