Delving into Deutsche Displays
- The Marburg web site has over 1.5 million pictures of buildings in towns all over Germany and some other countries. Is your town there?
Finding a Parish in a Large German City
- What do you do if your immigrant ancestor was Lutheran and came from a large city in Germany that had more than 50 Lutheran churches? How do you find the church where your ancestor's records would be kept?
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
- The last census of the US in 2000 showed that 25 per cent of the population claimed some German ancestry. If you are among this group, or researching it, there have been some interesting developments in the ability to search for German information online
Dictionary of German Names A boon for genealogical research, this detailed dictionary makes available in English information on more than 15,000 German names, with variant spellings and the meanings and origins of each name.
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Germanic Ancestors From naturalization to name changes, actual case studies of both typical and atypical Germanic genealogies demonstrate how to "solve" a research mystery, and comprehensive listings of Germanic archives, research forms, letter-writing examples and maps will save genealogists hours of additional work. In addition, this guide provides a history of Germanic countries and their changing boundaries to help researchers find their villages of origin and determine the events that led their ancestors to emigrate.
German Genealogy? Start Here! Reseach your ancestry using thousands of surname queries, passenger ship arrivals, cemeteries, recommended Web sites, articles on German culture, plus locate record archives in Germany.