German Resources
Basic Information
Capital city: Berlin
Population: 83.02 million (2019)
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How To Pages and Articles
- Germany Research Outline
- Handwriting Guide: German Gothic
- German Letter Writing Guide
- German Genealogical Word List
- Former German Professions
- 18th Century Rhineland Emigrants
- Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes
- Germanic Soundex for Ahnenstammkartei
- The Atlantic Bridge to Germany series
- BLITZ Information Center
- German Settlements in Eastern Europe
- Huguenot East-West Migration
- St. Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Schaumburg
- Mecklenburg Surnames in Selected Sources
- History of Alsace and Lorraine
- The Most Common German Surnames
- A Collection of Various TOTA Historical Articles
- German Genealogical Digest
Societies and Organizations
- International German Genealogy Partnership
- Germanic Genealogy Society
- Die Pommerschen Leute - Die Vorfahren
- Die Pommerschen Leute (German-Pomeranian Newsletter)
- German Genealogy Group
- Anglo-German Family History Society
- Galizien German Descendants
- Sacramento German Genealogy Society
- Immigrant Genealogical Society (IGS)
- Palatines to America
- KANA: Kashubian Association of North America
- East European Genealogical Society
Genealogy Links to Databases
- Archion Database of German Lutheran Records
- Matricula Database of Catholic Records
- Genealogy.net
- Germany GenWeb
- HannoverGemeinde Index
- Geogen
- Hamburg Passenger Lists
- Bremen and its Passenger Records
- German Military Casualties
- Old Lutheran Emigration List
- GIACR: German Immigrants in American Church Records
- Brenner Collection of Farm Names in Middle Franconia, Bavaria
- Palatine Index Guide German-Jewish Genealogical Research
Maps
- Ravenstein's Atlas of the German Empire
- Kartenmeister (for finding places in the former German empire)
- Mapire
- Maps of the German Empire
- German Empire Dunlop Atlas, 1927/28
Gazetteers
Other Information of Interest
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