Introduction to German Genealogy Research
Thilo Agthe -- May 11, 2009

Internet Resources:

LDS German research outline: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/rg/guide/Germany14.asp

LDS Publication “Determining a Place of Origin in Germany” http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp

LDS Publication “A Genealogical Handbook of German Research”: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Guide=Ger_BMD_RefDoc_HandbookGermanResearch7.asp

International Genealogical Index: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

Library of Congress’s Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: digitized newspapers and directory of newspapers published in America since 1650: www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

American Family Immigration History Center (www.ellisislandrecords.org); Ellis Island, 1892-1924: 22 Million records

NARA, German Immigrant data files (http://aad.archives.goc/aad/): database, 4 million records of arrivals from Germany, 1850-1897

The Palatine Project – Reconstructed Passenger Lists 1683-1819 (www.palproject.org)

Bremen Passenger Lists, 1920-1939: www.schiffslisten.de/index_en.html

Hamburg Passenger Lists on Ancestry.com: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?dbid=1068 ($)

Württemberg, Germany Emigration Index (available on ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3141&enc=1

Baden, Germany Emigration Index, 1866-1911, on ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4610&cj=1&o_xid=0000584978&o_lid=0000584978

Emigration from Southwest Germany, website of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: http://www.auswanderer-bw.de

More Emigration Lists: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/emigration.html

Listing of genealogical archives: http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/earchive.htm

Links to German State Archives: http://www.archivschule.de/content/23.html (in German)

Links to German town/city archives: http://www.archivschule.de/content/29.html (in German)

Microfilms of registry records of jewish communities in Württemberg, Baden und Hohenzollern (https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=5632), State Archive Stuttgart

http://www.cyndislist.com/germany.htm

Church archives: http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/earchive.htm#BB

Protestant church archives: http://www.ekd.de/archive/deutsch/mitglied.htm#Archive (in German)

Catholic church archives: http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/darchi17.htm

German War Memorial inscripions: http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/en.htm

German War Graves Association online grave search: www.volksbund.de/graebersuche (in German)

Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) for the notification of next-of-kin of members of the former German Wehrmacht who were killed in action: records of millions of WW2 German soldiers: http://www.dd-wast.de/frame_e.htm