CLICK ON THE GERMAN STATE (or former
German region, or Duchy) your research involves. The
KEY to effective research in Germany is THE VILLAGE your ancestor
came from. Genealogical archives are held by the church in the village your
ancestor came from. The DATE is critical! You also need to know their faith,
obviously! After about 1874 the civil governments became the depositories
for birth, baptism, marriage, and death records in most areas (but not all....
some made the change during the rampages of Napoleon.)
Note other search options as well ~ Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic,
Lithuania..........!
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Remember: We have language translation
at
http://www.amason.net/hessen/donstrans.htm
Germany's Changing Borders
http://www.millenniacorp.com/_videos/centennia/centennia.htm
Read Across
When all else fails, go to
http://google.com
and type in your search terms.
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| Research in Europe - Awesome Links |
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| See Also | See Also | Denmark Archives Online: Click on Ny bruger, then on opret ny burger. ~~~~~~~~ Enter your info, they will send you a password for access to the database. |
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| Pommersche Leute
in Aller Welt (Pomeranians around the World)
Die Pommerschen
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| Ditmarschen Emigrants |
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| Research in Franken |
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It's Beginning to Look a lot like
Austria!!! |
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| Visit The East European Genealogy Web |
If you are looking for a location or town EAST of the rivers Oder/Neisse in former German areas, Uwe Krickhahn, who lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, now has over 60,000 locations mapped. Send him an E-Mail and he will do a lookup for you, even on partial names: ukrickha@memlane.com
| Czech Republic, Bohemia,
Moravia Genealogical Research Cities/Towns in the Republic of Slovakia: http://slovakia.eunet.sk/slovakia/travellers-guide/obce-nd.txt Slovakia Home Page: http://slovakia.eunet.sk/ |
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Russian
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| Hungarian Language Hugarian Genealogy Website |
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Understanding Dutch Genealogy
CLICK Hessen, Germany, Dutch Language CLICK
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Norway!
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The Palatines
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Poland!
Polish Records transferred to Germany
Slask, Poland (was Silesia, Germany)
Genealogical Research in Poland Understanding Polish Documents German archives sent from Poland to Germany since WW-II
Catholic records from the regions of Gdansk, Olsztyn & Bydgoszcz:
Lutheran records from former German provinces:
Zentralstelle fur Genealogie |
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Emigration - State Archives of Lower-Saxony
The state of Thuringia was refounded in 1920, after having been divided into 8 fully independent duchies and principalities: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Sachsen-Koburg-Gotha, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Sachsen-Meiningen, Sachsen-Altenburg, Reuss juengere Linie, and Reuss aeltere Linie. Some central and northern parts belonged to Prussia (Provinz Sachsen). Many ancestor seekers are confused by the many "Saxonies" in German history. There are: 1. The former Kingdom of Saxony (today: Freistaat Sachsen). The biggest towns are Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. 2. The former province of Saxony (Provinz Sachsen). It was a part of Prussia in the area around the cities of Magdeburg and Halle. Since 1945 it is united with the former duchy of Anhalt as the federal state of Sachsen-Anhalt. 3. Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). Today a German federal state, it has less political or historical roots (it was founded 1946; former states were Hanover, Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and parts of Anhalt and Hessen), but much linguistic togetherness: All people speak nearly the same Nether-German dialect. These Saxons in the ancient days decided to conquer England, America, and not a few other places. 4. Some of the Thuringian principalities also bore the name of Saxony, but they did not belong to one the above-listed Saxon territories. The origin of these names were of dynastic reasons. Courtesy Dieter Taube
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Switzerland,
Anyone? The Landesarchiv of the Kanton of Glarus, Switzerland does lookups and genealogical research. They handle E-Mail requests in German or English. Note the following, however: 1) You must be sure your relative was born, died or married in the Kanton of Glarus. They will NOT respond to any other inquiry. 2) You will be sent a preliminary finding free, but in-depth work is NOT free. It was not unusual for a German to cross into Switzerland at their common border and marry there. The email address is: Erika.Kamm@gl.ch (Erika Kamm-Weber) |
| For German soldiers missing in action since World War I and World
War II, please visit the following web sites: http://www.volksbund.de (German Language Only) http://www.volksbund.de/VuTDB/vut_suche.asp and http://www.com-de.pair.com/wast/frame_e.htm The International Red Cross in Geneva also holds files, researched for a fee. The contact information is:
Archives Division and Research Service |
France
Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) Name Search and a whole
lot more if your journey takes you to France!
Alsace-Lorraine
InfoEuropeStates!
To search by regional division, use numbers instead of names.
Lorraine
Alsace
http://www.world-address.com/genealor/ (French) http://www.evariste.anvar.fr/regions/ http://www.mygale.org/~rweinl/alshi_en.htm
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| The Archives of Great Britain |
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Australia National Archives
and visit these sites by
clicking on the link
Australian Genealogy Free Online Registrys from the UK |
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| Geographical Place Names: Canada and Australia. |
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UK
Maps
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Anglo-German Family History Society
| New South Wales
Searchable Database
New South Wales Birth, Marriage, and Death Records |
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