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FHL Research Outline - Germany
Annotations, Additions and California Sources
A FEEFHS Monograph

© copyright 1995-2001 by John Movius; all rights reserved
Latest Update: 23 June 2001 - The URL for this document is http://feefhs.org/frl/de/frl-rogm.html

The Research Outline - Germany(FHL item #34061) was first published in July 1994 by the Family History Library (FHL) at Salt Lake City, Utah, then updated and reissued in 1997. It is the finest, most comprehensive 52 page research guide available in English for the subject of Germanic genealogy record searching using (FHL) sources. While designed to showcase FHL sources, it also cites other important sources in America and Europe. It is of special value to the beginner as well as to those experienced Germanic record searchers who have encountered any upexpected difficulties and can use a brief refresher on the extent of this collection.

This monograph was prepared for distribution by FEEFHS. It is based on the questions asked during presentations based on using this research outline. These lectures have been given at various FHC sponsored seminars and society meetings thruout California and western states from 1995-2000.

California Record Searchers: This will also help answer the "next most obvious question" for record searchers who are near one of the eight University of California campus Main Libraries, but are not near a Family History Center (FHC). It also includes the starting FHL microfilm or fiche numbers for each reference and the call numbers for these books in the UC library system and where other California libraries carry the same book or film.

Record Searchers outside of California will find many of these citations available at any major research library. Further, browsing in the library stacks where these books are found often uncovers other volumes on the same or simular topic that can make a library visit surprisingly productive.

Please remember that the references in the Research Outline - Germany can be found in the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC). In turn this catalog is found at all Family History Centers worldwide (on fiche and at most centers on CD-ROM). It is also found at a growing number of public libraries, including the Sutro (California Genealogy) Library (on Winston Drive near Stonetown) in San Francisco. Remember also that the FHLC fiche version has a subject index, which is not yet available on the CD-ROM version of the FHLC.

Different Citation Numbers: Reemember that the FHL uses the "Dewey Decimal System" while The University of California library system (am most other U.S. public and university libraries) use the "Library of Congress" sytem. Thus a FHL book citation will bear a different citation number in the University of California and other major library systems.

Obtaining the Research Outline - Germany: Copies can be purchased for about US$1.00 each from any Family History Center or from the Family History Library at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Abbreviations: Please see the list at the end of this monograph for the abbreviations used to identify other libraries.
Page......Subject......Annotations, Additions and Sources known to exist in California......
Page 11b Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 17 - Parish Genealogy (Ortssippenbuch) Page 18 - Church Record Inventories - Germany: Genealogical Research Guide (Steven Blodgett) - Sac FHC & UCD.

Page 24 - Emigration Passports, Hamburg - 323 reels start FHL microfilm #0577651; indexes: 16 reels - #0577671 on.

Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 30 - German Places in Foreign Countries - Amtliches Gemeinde- und Ortsnamen.... (Bundesanstalt...) also at many map libraries.

Page 31 - Genealogy - Glendorfs internationales Genealogen-Lexikon (J. Glensdorf), GGSA, GRA & IGS libraries.

Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 - Locating Jewish Records - Catalog of...Archival Collections... (F Gruebel) also at UCB/GTU, UCI, UCLA/URL and UCSC.

Page 41 - Finding Maps and Atlases - Westermann Grosser Atlas... (G. Westermann) also at UCB, UCD, UCSB, UCI, UCLA/URL, UCR, UCSD and SRLF.

Page 42 Page 43 Page 45 Page 46 - German Immigrant Newspapers - Page 47 Page 51 Page 52 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED ABOVE

Abbreviation.........................Explanation

CSL.............California State University Library - Check a MELVYL Computer catalog for more details.
Sac FHC.......Sacramento Multi-Regional Family History Center, 2745 Eastern Avenue.
FEEFHS.......Federation of East European Family History Societies
FHC............Family History Center (3,000+ worldwide).
FHL............Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
NRLF..........Northern Research Library Facility (UC) - Richmond, CA.
ref..............Reference section (cannot be checked out).
SRLF..........Southern Research Library Facility (UC) - Westwood, Los Angeles
Sutro...........California State Genealogy Library, San Francisco.
(N.B.: The FamilySearch series of CD-ROMs are also available at Sutro)
UC.............University of California (all eight campus main libraries)
UCB...........UC Berkeley, Main Library
UCB med.....UC Berkeley Medical School Library.
UCB/GTU....UCB Graduate Theology University Library, Berkeley.
UCB...........UC Davis, Shields Library, Davis.
UCI............UC Irvine Main Library, Irvine.
UCLA/URL.....UCLA University Research Library, Westwood, Los Angeles.
UCR...........UC Riverside Main Library, Riverside.
UCSB..........UC Santa Barbara Main Library, Santa Barbara.
UCSD.........UC San Diego Main Library, San Diego.
UCSC.........UC Santa Cruz Main Library, Santa Cruz.

© copyright 1995-2001 by John Movius, P. O. Box 2660, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110-2660; all rights reserved.
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