Helps for German Genealogy Research by Katharina Birch

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An offering provided by the "Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst," this great tool provides samples of handwriting and printed text from the 8th through the 20th century, along with great guidance to help you hone your deciphering skills. Great practice!

birchbranches19 — 2025-03-30 05:27:15 UTC

Home page for the Bavarian State Archives (Die Staatlichen Archive Bayerns). The column at the left contains a link to the online index of available documents.

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Around 990 church registers from various parishes of the Ruhr Diocese are available to genealogists. These can be viewed digitally via the church register portal of the Diocese Archive of Essen, in compliance with legal data protection periods (baptisms: 120 years, marriages: 100 years, and deaths: 100 years).

birchbranches19 — 2025-04-11 20:39:55 UTC

Im Digitalen Archiv des historischen Archivs des Erzbistums Köln können Sie zu allen verfügbaren Beständen und Verzeichnissen (Findbüchern) recherchieren. Sofern auch Digitalisate (s.u.) mit den Verzeichnissen verknüpft sind, können Sie diese hier kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung einsehen.

birchbranches19 — 2025-04-15 19:45:15 UTC

The most comprehensive database of its kind in the world. It contains 110013 locations in EASTERN Europe with over 45.115 name changes once, and 5,500 twice and more. All locations are EAST of the Oder and Neisse rivers and are based on the borders of the eastern provinces in Spring 1918.

birchbranches19 — 2025-04-15 19:56:39 UTC

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Online Free OCR for German Fraktur Language tool helps to extract German Fraktur language text from Image.

birchbranches19 — 2025-04-17 19:23:53 UTC

Poznan Project -- Poznan Region Marriage
Indexing Project for 1800-1899

birchbranches19 — 2025-04-30 21:16:18 UTC

German Genealogical Word Lists from FamilySearch Research Wiki

birchbranches19 — 2025-05-05 17:44:43 UTC

This link will take you to the SPRINGVILLE, UTAH FamilySearch Center, where you can make an appointment to visit Kathy on Wednesday mornings, or reserve equipment to digitize your Family History Memories!

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Current German surname distribution.

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Hessian Troops in America; HETRINA Index.

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The Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Hessian Military and Naval Microfilm Archive Collection at Kutztown University.

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Moveable Feast Day Calendars on FamilySearch.

tundraroad — 2025-05-09 00:52:50 UTC

Website for old Maps and images.

tundraroad — 2025-05-09 00:54:23 UTC

birchbranches19 — 2025-05-09 06:41:33 UTC

This site will convert the French Republican calendar to the (for us normal) Gregorian calendar. A legacy of the French Revolution, this system was finally abandoned on 22 Fructidor year XIII (9 September 1805) restoring the Gregorian calendar from 1 January 1806.

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Familienforschung in S c h l e s i e n

This is a collection a researcher has put together containing many links helpful to anyone researching in Schlesien. Worth checking out if that is where you are searching.

birchbranches19 — 2025-06-26 19:40:15 UTC

This link takes you to this publishing company's online shop. One of the categories they offer is published Ortsfamilienbücher (local family genealogies) for about 320 different towns, many of which are not available digitally.

birchbranches19 — 2025-06-26 20:07:35 UTC

A site sponsored by the Oldenburg Family History Association (OGF), a link on this page provides access to a family database from Oldenburg--currently in process. If your parish is represented (in dark or light green), you can purchase 6 months of access for $15. (Right-click on the page and select "Translate to English.")

birchbranches19 — 2025-06-26 20:09:41 UTC

A site sponsored by the Oldenburg Family History Association (OGF), this page accesses a database of emigrants from Oldenburg. They request contribution of information on emigrants and their descendants who may not appear in the database. (Right-click on the page and select "Translate to English.")

birchbranches19 — 2025-08-28 22:40:50 UTC

State Archives in Wroclaw

(for Research in Liegnitz, Schlesien)

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Gesellschaft für Familienforschung in Franken e. V.

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The Collegium Carolinum (CC)

(Sudetendeutsches Wörterbuch) and the Biographical Dictionary of the Bohemian Lands

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Transkribus by Austrian National Library and NewsEye project

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Galicia German Descendants

(includes information on Mennonites in Galicia too)

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Volhynia Research links