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=== <center>'''Archives'''</center> ===
Also see below: [[User:Hanna5974/Sandbox/Databse Wiki Consolidation#Church_Archives_and_Contact_Information|Church Archives and Contact Information]]
*[http://www.archivschule.de/content/59.html Archivschule]- Listing of German Archives in the Internet. <br>
*[http://www.h-net.org/~german/research/archives.html H-Net]--Humanities and Social Services on the Internet--links to German archives, more detailed on the federal level.
*[http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/darchive.htm Archives in Germany - Hanacek (2000)]
*[http://www.archive.nrw.de/ Archives in Nordrhein-Westfalen]<br>
*[http://www.hv.spk-berlin.de/english/index.php Geheimes Archiv - Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz]
*[http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261&Itemid=68 German Historical Institute] Links to German Archives
*[http://www.lib-web.org/europe/germany-central-europe/germany/ Libweb] - Directory of Libraries
*[http://www.monasterium.net/ Monasterium.net]--Archive of medieval to early modern era documents
*[http://aidaonline.niedersachsen.de/ Niedersachsen Archives]
=== <center>'''Calendars'''</center> ===
*[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/French_Republican_Calendar French Republican Calendar (Research outline)]
*[http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm Grotefend calendar book online]
*[http://www.ortelius.de/kalender/form_de2.php Calendar converter (German)]
*[http://www.lepg.org/liturgy.htm The Liturgical Year]
*[http://kalendersysteme.de/deutsch/kalender/systeme/systeme/inhalt.html Information on many calendar systems around the world]
=== <center>'''Colonies'''</center> ===
*[http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/deutsche-kolonien.htm German Colonies]
=== <center>'''Emigration, Immigration, and Passenger Lists'''</center> ===
*[http://www.germanroots.com/ei.html German Roots Emigration Website List]
*[[Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants#U.S._and_German_passenger_lists_and_indexes|U.S. and German passenger lists and indexes]]
*[[Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants#Regional_Lists_and_Indexes_of_Emigrants|Regional Lists and Indexes of Emigrants]]
*[[Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants#Lists_of_emigrants_from_individual_towns|Lists of emigrants from individual towns]]
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~brawgw/alemanha/historia_petropolis_imi1859.htm Lists of Germans immigrating to Brazil], in Portuguese.
*[http://www.pilleux.cl/genealogia/Alemanes/ German immigrants to Chile]
*[[Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants|Wiki Article:Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants]]
=== <center>'''Finding Parish Registers'''</center> ===
Priests at each church recorded baptisms (christenings), marriages, and burial events in '''parish registers'''. These records help prove birth, marriage, and death, parentage, and spouse names. German parish registers sometimes include move-in and move-out data.
==== <center>'''Parish Register Inventories'''</center> ====
*[[Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet|Parish Register Inventories]]
*[[Media:Localities.pdf|PDF Archive Inventory]]- an inventory of localities with the location or archive where the records should be found. Corresponding list of archives named in inventory is at[[Media:Archive_Add_.pdf|Archive Addresses]] Please note that in the second column, with the heading of "key" matches the Archive "number" in the first link which contains the database.
==== <center>'''Church Archives and Contact Information'''</center> ====
*[http://www.ekd.de/archive/deutsch/regionen.htm Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Archives]--portal to the archives of the various Lutheran dioceses.
*[http://www.ekd.de/archive/index.htm Association of Protestant Church Archives]
*[http://www.ezab.de/kirchenbuecher/kirchenbuch-suche.php EZAB - Berlin Evangelical Central Archive Holdings]
*[http://www.kkvsol.net/ Oberlausitz Evangelical Archive]
*[http://www.ekd.de/kirche/gliedkirchen/karte.html Lutheran Parishes Contact Information]
*[http://www.dbk.de/katholische-kirche/katholische-kirche-deutschland/aufbau-ktah-kirche/bistuemer/ Catholic Dioceses and Parishes contact information]<br>
*[http://www.ashkenazhouse.org/synagogue-main.htm List of Ashkenazic Synagogues]
==== <center>'''Parish Registers Online'''</center> ====
===== <center>'''Regional Collections'''</center> =====
*[http://www.data.matricula.info/php/main.php?ar_id=3670#2 Passau Diocese Parish Records at Matricula]
*[http://www.kirchenbuch-virtuell.de/ Parish registers of the Bayreuth, Bavaria, Lutheran Archive],($)
*[http://www.blume-gen.de/index-kb-eintraege.html Ortenberg churches] Wölpinghausen, Wiedenbrügge, Schmalenbruch, Windhorn, Winzlar, Auhagen and Düdinghausen
*[http://www.lkan-elkb.de/Download/Kirchenmatrikeln_nach_Orten.pdf Lutheran parish registers available in the Church Book Archive in Nuernberg]<br>
*[http://grueneberg-lenzen.de/deutsch/Kirchbuch/start.html Virtual parish registers and indexes for Brandenburg and Mecklenburg]
*[http://www.plew.info/verteiler_regionen.htm Sources for Sambia, the area around Koenigsberg]<br>
*[http://www.historische-masurische-vereinigung.de/ Historische Masurische Vereinigung(Southeran East Prussia(Masurenland)]<br>
*[http://www.salzburger.homepage.t-online.de/krch-bch.htm List of extant parish registers in Kreis Gumbinnen]
===== <center>'''Individual Parishes'''</center> =====
*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1952867 Saxony, Bautzen, Church Records, 1699-1915]
*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1968531 Brandenburg, Heegermühle, Church Records, 1664-1824]
*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2064113 Prussia, Pomerania, Labes, Church Records, 1647-1764]
*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1475887 Prussia, Pomerania, Stralsund, Church Book Indexes, 1600-1900]
*[http://members.tripod.com/Stemweder/wehdem.html Wehdem Parish Records]
=== <center>'''Gazetteers'''</center> ===
A '''gazetteer''' ('''Ortzeichnis''' or '''Topographie''') is a dictionary of placenames. Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as: population size, the different religious denominations, the schools, colleges, and universities,major manufacturing works, canals, docks, and railroad stations. Gazetteers can '''help you find the places where your family lived''' and '''determine the civil and church jurisdictions''' over those places.
*FamilySearch: A digital copy of Meyers Gazetteer is in two volumes and is found at: part 1 A-K, {{FSbook|74680}}; part 2 L-Z , {{FSbook|74645}}. See "[[Step-by-step guide: Using Meyers Gazetteer Online]]" for detailed user instructions. An abbreviated guide to locating place names and jurisdictions in Meyers Gazetteer is found [https://www.familysearch.org/#form=catalog here].
*[http://www.compgen.de The Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis (GOV)]
*For areas east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, [http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp Kartenmeister] provides church- and civil jurisdictions
*For phonetic searches in the area covered by today’s Germany, use the [http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/ “fuzzy gazetteer”]
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/LocTown.asp JewishGen gazetteer] has several search options, including “contains”. Be sure to change the country and choose a search option.
*[http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7346&from=pubstats Deutsch-Fremdsprachiges Ortsnamenverzeichnis] place name changes for formerly German localities as of June 1919,
*[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html Orbis Latinus] (1909 edition - English interface) – Latinized place names. Several volumes/editions are available on multiple websites: [http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orbis-latinus 1972 four-volume combined set version]
*A number of gazetteers and parish register inventories are available in the [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Gemeinde-_oder_Ortsverzeichnis_in_der_DigiBib Digital Library-Geographie, Kartographie, Topographie] of the German Society for Computer Genealogy. New titles are added regularly.
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=34415 Prussian (Preussen) Gazetteer]
*Various volumes of the Gemeindelexikon Preußen (1885, 1895, or 1905 editions) are also available on [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Gemeinde-_oder_Ortsverzeichnis_in_der_DigiBib Digital Library-Geographie, Kartographie, Topographie]
*For an extensive list of [[Online German Gazetteers and Parish Register Inventories#Regional_gazetteers_and_parish_register_inventories|regional gazetteers and parish register inventories]] states, click on this link.
*[http://gov.genealogy.net/ The Historic Gazeetter]
*[http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html An index of German-Polish and Polish-German localities]
*[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ortsdatenbank/Linkliste German-speaking Location Databases]
=== <center>'''Genealogy'''</center> ===
*[http://ahnenforschung.net/ Ahnenforschung.net ]- German genealogical forum and link list
*[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:DigiBib DigiBib - Digital Library on genealogy.net]
*[http://www.berufsgenealogie.net/ German Association of Professional Genealogists]
*[http://mocavo.com/ Genealogy Search Engine Mocavo]
=== <center>'''Geography'''</center> ===
*[http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/home.html Ravenstein Atlas of the German Empire]<br>
*[http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp Kartenmeister]
*[http://www.multimap.com Multimap]<br>
*[http://www.expedia.com Expedia]<br>
*[http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/ Historical maps of Germany]<br>
*[http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/German_States_1871 German States in 1871]
=== <center>'''German Soundex'''</center> ===
'''Soundex''' is a phonetic index that groups together names that sound alike but are spelled differently. This helps searchers find names that are spelled differently than originally expected, a relatively common genealogical research problem.
*[http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Ahnenstammkartei_des_deutschen_Volkes Ahnenstammkartei des deutschen Volkes Instructions on German Soundex]
=== <center>'''Heraldry'''</center> ===
*[http://www.ahnen-und-wappen.de/ Ahnen und Wappen] Heraldry, Nobility, Crests
=== <center>'''Language and Handwriting Helps'''</center> ===
*[http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_en.html#/search=&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on Leo Searchable German-English Dictionary]
*[http://dwb.bbaw.de/ Grimm's ]Dictionary of the German Language
*[[German Word List|German Genealogical Word List]] FamilySearch Wiki article
*[[Latin Genealogical Word List|Latin Genealogical Word List]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_German_military_terms Glossary of German military terms]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html Orbis Latinus Latin Place names]
*[http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/German/GermanL.htm Archaic Medical Terms ](in English)
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~romban/misc/germanjobs.html Historic German professions]
*[http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box Translation of Phrases]
*[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Germany_Handwriting German Handwriting]
*[https://script.byu.edu/Pages/home.aspx BYU Tutorial on Old Handwriting]
*[https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/die-deutsche-schrift/1152 Reading old German Handwriting]
*[http://www.germancorner.com/fonts/index.html German-type fonts to download]<br>
==== <center>'''Search Vocabulary'''</center> ====
address books - Adressbuecher <br> archive - Archiv [Kirchen{buch}archiv, Landesarchiv, Staatsarchiv, Stadtarchiv, Komunalarchiv, Kreisarchiv]<br> calendar of events - Veranstaltungskalender <br> church(es) - Kirche(n) <br> civil registration office - Standesamt<br> community (civil) - Gemeinde , Ortsgemeinde <br> community consisting of several towns (civil] - Verbandsgemeinde [VG] <br> Computer Genealogy (on-line journal) - Computergenealogie <br> culture - Kultur <br> data base - Datenbank<br> economy - Wirtschaft <br> emigrants - Auswanderer <br> emigration - Auswanderung <br> emigration research - Auswandererforschung<br> general - allgemein <br> illnesses (old terms) - alte Krankheitsbezeichnungen <br> index, listing - Verzeichnis <br> Latin - lateinisch <br> list - Liste <br> map(s)- Karte(n) mayor's office - Buergermeisteramt<br> measures - Masse <br> occupations - Berufe <br> old - alt <br> parish office - Kirchenbuero, Pfarrbuero <br> parish [church] - Kirchengemeinde<br> passenger lists - Schiffslisten <br> pastor - Pfarrer <br> pictures (old) - alte Bilder<br> place names - Ortsnamen<br> postal code(s) - Postleitzahl(en) printed - gedruckt<br> public - oeffentlich public institutions - oeffentliche Einrichtungen <br> research - Forschung <br> research associations, clubs - Vereine <br> search screen - Suchmaske <br> search term - Suchwort <br> sources - Quellen <br> town genealogy - Ortssippenbuch, Ortsfamilienbuch, OFB, OSB<br>
=== <center>'''Metasearches and Large Databases with Many Record Types'''</center> ===
*[https://familysearch.org/search FamilySearch.org]
*[http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com]--patron-submitted name databases, as well as indexes and images of many sources, including vital records, U.S. census records, several important emigration indexes, and passenger lists.<br>
*[http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/contentsearch.aspx?p=Germany World Vital Records--German]
*[http://www.searchgenealogy.net/germany.html German Genealogy Databases Search]
*[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.xmarks.com/site/mdz2.bib-bvb.de/~ndb/ndbmaske.html&prev=searchl Google Biography Search]
*[http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/germany.htm German Newspapers]
*[http://www.germanroots.com/germandata.html Online German Genealogy Records & Databases]
*[http://meta.genealogy.net/ Metasearch]--one search portal for data in GedBas, Datenbank Historischer Adressbücher, FOKO, Forschungsdatenbanken der Vereine, Online Ortsfamilienbücher, Familienanzeigen, and Volkszahlregister Schleswig Holstein
:'''FOKO'''-This database allows the family historian to find others who are working on the same families or in the same towns.<br>'''GedBas'''-Anyone can contribute data in form of Gedcom files, or search for information.<br>'''Familienzeigen'''-extracts from birth-, marriage-, and death notices placed in daily newspapers from the last 20 years.<br>'''Grabsteine'''-records tomb stone information of recent origin.<br>'''Totenzettel''' (Memorial cards)<br>'''Verlustlisten 1.WK''' - (WWI Casualty lists)
=== <center>'''Names--Surname Frequency'''</center> ===
[http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/v3/Default.aspx?lang=de_DE Geogen] Surname frequency, based on current phonebooks
=== <center>'''Regional Resources-Miscellaneous'''</center> ===
{|
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| '''Alsace'''
| [http://alsacegenweb.online.fr/homepage.htm Alsace GenWeb]<br>[http://www.cartocassini.org/planville/plan.php French Maps and Aerial Photos]
|-
| '''Baden'''
| [http://www.websters.net/blackforest/index.html Genealogy in Germany's Black Forest Region]
|-
| '''Berlin'''
| [http://www.blocksignal.de/krt/b07/f.cgi Map of Berlin and Suburbs, 1907]
|-
| '''Hannover'''
| [http://www.osfa.de/ Osnabrueck area]
|-
| '''Pfalz [Palatinate]'''
| [http://www.genealogie-in-pirmasens.de/ Genealogy in the Pirmasens area]<br>
|-
| '''Saarland'''
| [http://www.saar-genealogie.de/asf-forum/ Inventory of records in the Saar region]<br>
|-
| '''Sachsen'''
| [http://www.saxonyroots.com/ Saxony Roots]
|-
| '''Schaumburg-Lippe'''
| [http://www.blume-gen.de/ Family history in Schaumburg-Lippe]<br>
|-
| '''Schlesien'''
| [http://www.militsch.de/ Family history Kreis Militsch, Silesia]<br>
|-
| '''Schleswig-Holstein'''
| [http://www.fehmarn-genealogy.com/default.htm Fehmarn Genealogy]<br>
|-
| '''Thueringen'''
| [http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/THU/thu-arch.html Thueringen Archives]
|}
=== <center>'''Societies'''</center> ===
*[http://www.lgg-leipzig.de/programm.asp Leipzig Genealogical Society]
*[http://www.palam.org/ Palatines to America Society]
*[http://www.sggee.org/ Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe ](SGGEE)
*[http://www.ogsa.us/ Ostfriesen Genealogical Society of America]
*[http://ahsgr.org/ American Historical Society of Germans from Russia]
*[http://grhs.org/ Germans from Russia Heritage Society]
*[http://www.sacgergensoc.org/ Sacramento German Genealogical Society]
*[http://www.ggsmn.org/ Germanic Genealogy Society] (in Minnesota)
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lastjohn/geracadn.htm The German-Acadian Coast Historical Society]
*[http://immigrantgensoc.org/ Immigrant Genealogical Society]
*[http://www.ogsgs.org/ Orangeburgh Swiss-German Genealogical Society]
*[http://www.magsgen.com Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society]
*[http://swflgg.org/links.php?lcid=1 Southwest Florida Germanic Genealogy Society]
*[http://csumc.wisc.edu/mki/Genealogy/1.GenealogyFrames.htm German genealogy resources at the Max-Kade Institute]
*[http://www.gf-franken.de/ Society for Genealogy in Franken]
*[http://www.nhv-ahnenforschung.de/ Science and History Association,Lippe]
*[http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/maus/datenbanken/index.php?lang=de The Maus Genealogical Society], Bremen area]
=== <center>'''Town Genealogies (Ortsippenbuch or Ortsfamielenbuch)'''</center> ===
*An '''Ortssippenbuch''' or '''Ortsfamilienbuch''' includes birth, marriage, and death data for all persons found in the local records during a specified time period, compiled into families. Sources may include the local parish registers, civil registration records, court and land records, and sometimes published material.
*[http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/ Online Database of Ortsippenbuch] Large country-wide collection.
*[http://www.slcl.org/sites/default/files/shared-files/SC_OSB_village.pdf Ortssippenbücher and similar sources held by the St. Louis County Library Special Collections Department] interlibrary loan or paid search necessary.
==== <center>'''Bibliographies of Town Genealogies--Some Searchable Online'''</center> ====
{|
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| Baden
| [http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BAD-WUE/OSB-WUE.html#OSB List of Baden-Wuerttemberg Ortsippenbuecher]
|-
| Bayern(Bavaria)
| [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortschronik_zu_Bayern Ortschronik zu Bayern]<br>[http://www.genealogie-kiening.de/ Genealogy and house chronicles in the area north-west of Munich] - parishes around Dachau, NW of Munich. Also listing of surnames found in most parishes of the area. Searchable. <br>[http://www.genealogie-leitl.de/index.htm Tax Lists] - Indexes to tax lists for the courts of Friedberg, Landsberg an der Lech, Mehring, Rauhenlechsberg, Starnberg, and Weilheim for 1612, 1671, and 1720-1721. Searchable. <br>
|-
| Bremen
| [http://online-ofb.de/famlist.php?ofb=vegesack&b=A&lang=de Ortsfamilienbuch Bremen und Vegesack Familiennamenliste] Searchable.<br>[http://www.die-maus-bremen.de/nofb/index.php Die Maus]. Searchable.
|-
| Brandenburg
| [http://grueneberg-lenzen.de/deutsch/Kirchbuch/start.html Virtual parish registers]- for Koeltschen, Kriescht, Louisa, Woxfelde, and Vietz. Searchable.<br>
[http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BRG/neumark/index4.htm Neumark database and Huguenot pedigrees] (Many parish registers in this area have been lost. This data base contains information from many other sources, such as pedigrees, town directories, histories etc.).Searchable.
|-
| Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine)
| [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortsfamilienbuch_zu_Lothringen Local history Books for Alsace-Lorraine]
|-
| Hannover
| [http://www.ogsa.us/osbs.shtml Bibliography of Ostfriesland OFBs with purchasing information in the U.S.]<br>
[http://www.genealogy.net/vereine/UG/bibliothek.htm List of Ostfriesland OFBs]
|-
| Hessen
| [http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/en/subjects/xsearch/sn/links?sache=Ortssippenbuch Ortsippenbuecher at University/Marburg]<br>
[http://www.ahnenforschung-hessen.de/zentralstelle/osb_reihe_a.htm Central Office for Personal and Family History-Institute of Genealogy]
|-
| Mecklenburg
| [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortsfamilienbuch_zu_Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Local heritage books of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]
|-
| Ostfriesland
| [http://www.genealogy.net/vereine/UG/ostfr-osb.htm Ostfrieslands local kinship books]
[http://www.ortssippenbuch.net/ Local clan books in Ostfriesland]
|-
| Rheinland (Rhineland)
| [http://www.rlb.de/rpbgooi/sn200000/sn207000/sn207000_$.htm Rhineland-Palatinate ibliography]<br>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~eifel/pick/pickindex.html Eifel region]. Searchable.<br>
[http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/wgff/trier/index.html Indexes to parish registers in the Trier region] Searchable. <br> [http://www.online-ofb.de/hochwald/ Ortsfamilienbuch Südlicher Hochwald]. Searchable.
|-
| Sachsen (Saxony)
| [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortsfamilienbuch_zu_Sachsen Family Books of Saxony]
|-
| Schlesien (Silesia)
| [http://www.vogel-soya.de/ortsfamilienbuecher_schlesien.htm Local heritage books Silesia]
|-
| Schleswig-Holstein
| [http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/SHFam//publikationen/KBSuedb1.pdf Familienbuch Suederbarup].Searchable.
|-
| Waldeck
| [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Waldeckische_Ortssippenb%C3%BCcher Waldeckische local kinship books] - List of town genealogies published up to the year 2008
|-
| Westphalia
| [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortsfamilienbuch_zu_Nordrhein-Westfalen Local heritage book to North Rhine-Westphalia]
|}