German Online Sources (general sources) by Milan Pohontsch

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1 German Online Sources (general sources) by Milan Pohontsch Links are exhaustive but not complete. All links were valid during the creation of this syllabus in June Sources for document recognition Sources for German handwriting FamilySearch: << >> Sütterlin: << >> Start writing: << >> Start writing: << >> Handwriting guide: << >> ICAPGen: << >> Try also Google: enter German handwriting, switch to Images. Old German computer fonts for free download Old German fonts: << >> German fonts: << >> German fonts: << >> German fonts: << >> (Click on fonts) Installation guide : << >> Special German letters (incl. Umlaut) ASCII-guide: << >> Resources about ancestors submitted by others FamilySearch / Family Tree FamilySearch: << >> FamilySearch catalog FamilySearch: << >> WorldCat database: << >> List of available town lineage books Genealogy.net: << >> (German, list is not complete) Submitted family trees or indexes Ancestry.com: << >> MyHeritage.com: << >> MyTrees.com: << >> GeneaNet: << >> Society of Computer Genealogy: << >> FoKO: << >> (German) Rootsweb: << >>

2 Ahnenforschung.net: << >> (German, searches several databases at the same time) Surname Navigator: << >> (searches several databases at the same time) Try also Internet browser and search a family name in combination with a town name. Search societies via browser No complete lists are available. The following links contain many of the German genealogical societies. Lists several societies: << >> (German) Lists several societies: << >> (German and English) Military records Fallen soldiers: << >> (German) Fallen soldiers and displaced or missing individuals: << >> (German) Fallen soldiers, Wehrmacht records: << >> Military and civil medical records << >> (mostly German) Military archive of Germany: << >> (German) Displaced or missing individuals: << >> (German) Monuments of fallen soldiers: << >> Emigration / Immigration databases University of Oldenburg: << >> Archive Baden-Württemberg: << >> (German) German Emigrants Database: << >> Bremen passenger lists: << >> (German) Ellis Island: << >> Castle Garden: << >> Jewish research Jewish central archive in Germany: << >> (German) Holocaust victims: << >> Victims of Nazi persecution: << >> Archives on the web: << >> (some in German) Cemeteries: << >> (German) Other sources Pages about heraldry research Ancestry and Crests: << >> (German) Heraldic on the Web: << >> (German) Heraldica: << >> Crests: << >> (German) Wikipedia: << >> (German) Pages about nobility research Database: << >> (mostly German) Nobility society: << >> Institute of German Nobility Research: << >> (mostly German) Collegium Rerum Nobilium (Austrian nobility only) << >> (German)

3 Geneall: << >> Wikipedia: << >> (German) Nobility and VIPs of the past: << >> Pages with genealogical mail lists Rootsweb (general): << >> Rootsweb (German lists): << >> Genealogy.net: << >> (German) Cyndie s List: << >> Web browsers specializing on genealogy content Mocavo: << >> (specializing on genealogy related info) Tools for finding parish borders Parish district maps: << >> (German) Try also Google.de (German version) and enter keyword: Kirchengemeindegrenzen (in combination of your town name where the parish is located). German telephone books Das Oertliche: << >> (German) Telefonbuch.de: << >> (German) Church archives Entry site for German parish archives: << >> Civil records Go via << >>, Search, Browse Card Catalog, drill down by locality German civil registry offices (= Standesamt) Entry site: << >> (German) State archives and repositories Archive School: Marburg: << >> Genealogy software Archives.com: << >> GenWiki: << >> (mostly German, many links to software companies are in English) Download.com: << >> Gazetteers Ancestry.com: << >> [Choose Search tab, Search all Categories, scroll down Explore by Location, choose Europe, choose Germany, go to Germany Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers, choose sub category Prussia, Municipality Gazetteer, 1905 (for Prussian gazetteer) or Mayers Gazetteer of the German Empire (for Mayers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon )] or << >> Kartenmeister: << >> [scroll down] Incomplete Meyers Gazetteer: << >> JewishGen: << >> Computer-genealogy society: << >>

4 Pro Genealogists: << >> Rademachers town books: << >> (German) Genealogienetz: << >> (German) Maps Kartenmeister: << >> University Library of Wisconsin: << >> Posselt Family: << >> (German) David Rumsey Map Collection: << >> Ancestry.com: << >> [Choose Search tab, Search all Categories, scroll down Explore by Location, choose Europe, choose Germany, go to Germany Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers, choose sub category Germany Topographic Maps, ] Map archive: << >> (German) Bavarian State Library: << >> (German) Map-Index: << >> (German) FEEHFS Maps: << >> Maproom: << >> General knowledge sources about German genealogy FamilySearch: << >> Wikipedia: << >> Encyclopedia Britannica: << >> Try also a search engine and enter keyword(s) about a specific topic. Old German calendar names and time specifications Calendar Converter: << >> Conversion from Julian to Gregorian calendar CSG Network: << >> Latin-German surnames European Roots: << >> Rambow Genealogie: << >> (German) German-Slavic surnames European Roots: << >> Feast days in German records Kirchenkalender: << >> (German) Online Roots: << >> Dictionaries German English German dictionary: << >> (German) Latin English dictionary: << >> Google translate: << >> German thesaurus DFG: << >> (German)

5 Weights and measures Formula collection: << >> (German) Heven society: << >> (German) Schutzgebiete society: << >> (German) Wikipedia: << >> (German) University protocols: << >> (German) Wieseleben society: << >> (German) Currencies, wages, costs Currencies: << >> (German) Wages and costs: << >> (German) Name databases German first names: << >> German family names: << >> or the older version: << >> German letter writing guide Guide: << >> Word list for German and Latin (including abbreviations) European Roots: << >> FamilySearch: << >> Word lists of old German professions Rootsweb: << >> European Roots: << >> JewishGen: << >> Medical terms German only: << >> German-Latin terms: << >> Latin-German terms: << >> Numbers German numbers: << >> Latin numbers: << >> Conversion program between Arabic and Latin numbers: << >> Genealogical symbols Wikipedia: << >> (English) Wikipedia: << >> (German and English) Symbols for days of the week: << >>

6 Collection of general research tools Cyndie s list: << >> ICAPGen on ER: << >> FEEHFS: << >> Rootsweb: << >> I-Genealogie: << >> (German) Genealogy.net: << >> Space for personal links and notes: