General Genealogical Information (Germany)

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Contents 1 General Information 2 Genealogical and Historical Societies 3 Genealogical and Historical Records 4 Gazetteers and Maps 5 Bibliography 6 Archives and Libraries 7 Miscellaneous Subjects 8 Other Resources (including Internet) 9 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
  • European History in Dates, in German
    <URL:http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/history.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>

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

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
  • Address books
  • Ortsfamilienbücher: see our List of Ortsfamilienbücher (or Ortssippenbücher)
• Periodicals:
  • COMPUTERGENEALOGIE
  • GENEALOGIE, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Familienkunde, Verlag Degener
• Genealogical Dictionaries

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 (WASt) (German Services)
    • Additional Information about Military archives
    • Search Service of the German Red Cross:
      For searching for lost and missing during wars.
      Answers to requests can take over six months to fulfill, sometimes almost a year.
    • 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: Nearest location: Find a Family History Center.
• Regional Archives and Libraries in
  • Baden-Württemberg (in German)
  • Bayern (in German)
  • Brandenburg (in German)
  • Bremen (in German)
  • Hamburg (in German)
  • Hessen: Archive, Bibliotheken (in German)
  • Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German)
  • Niedersachsen (in German)
  • Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German)
  • Rhinland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) (in German)
  • Saarland (in German)
  • Sachsen (in German)
  • Sachsen-Anhalt (in German)
  • Schleswig-Holstein (in German)
  • Thüringen (in German)

Miscellaneous Subjects

• Publishers
• Phone books
  Accessing Telephone Records
• Professional Researchers
  • 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
• Etymology
• Events
  Current events (in German)

Other Resources (including Internet)

• Email Mailing Lists:
  • Mail Lists.
• Databases:
  • FOKO (Interface to FOrscher KOntakte Database)
    
    • by DAGV. Further information FOKO FAQ.
• Miscellaneous Resources (non-genealogical):
  • The Press and Information Office of the Federal Government
    Information from Bonn.
  • News from Germany Current Local News.
  • Max Kade German-American Studies.

Predecessor States, Historical- and Geographic Regions

• Predecessor States
• Historical- and Geographic Regions