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German Genealogy Research Articles

Below is a series of articles that have been prepared for various conferences, classes, lectures, or for this Internet site. If you have articles that would fit, I would be happy to include your articles here or links to them from this site. I will be adding the links still to some of these articles. Thanks to Friedrich Wollmershäuser who allowed us to print most of the following articles here! He is sharing some of his knowledge gained over 25 years of research in southern German and emigration sources.

General German Articles:

bulletAnatomy of the German Empire 1648-1918
bulletBefore the Parish Registers Start: German Genealogical Sources for the 16th & 17th Centuries
bulletFinding the Irretrievable
bulletGenealogical Research in Big German Cities
bulletGerman Newspapers in Genealogy Research
bulletGerman Noble Descent in American Family Tradition
bulletGerman Parish Records. What else is new?
bulletGerman Genealogy Links
bullet Handwriting Guide - German Gothic Script (off site)
bulletPublished Sources for German Genealogy
bulletSuccessful Genealogical Correspondence and Travel to Germany
bulletHistory of the familie Zur Oweste, Zur Overste, Zuroverste, Zuroweste, Sieroversche, Suuroverste, Zur Oveste - Jan Sieroversche (.pdf file)

German Emigration and Immigration Articles:

bullet18th Century German Emigration Research 
bulletBureaucracy of Emigration and Its Traces in German Archives
bulletFinding Origins of 18th Century Emigration from Southern Germany
bulletHamburg Passenger Lists & 19th Century Emigration Research (see also Hamburg 1872 Index which is also in the process of being converted and added to this site.)
bulletIdentifying Emigrants and Immigrants
bullet The Palatine Project
bulletPassenger Departure Lists of German Emigrants

Regional German Articles:

bulletArchive in Baden-Württemberg (in German: Archives in Baden-Wuerttemberg)
bulletBaden-württembergische Quellen zur donauschwäbischen Auswanderung (Baden-Wuerttemberg Sources for the Donau-Schwaben [Hungarian] Emigration)
bulletGenealogical Research in Bavaria
bulletGenealogical Research in Baden-Württemberg
bulletQuellen zur Familienforschung in Baden-Württemberg (Sources for Family Research in Baden-Württemberg)

Indexes to German Articles:

bullet For more information on German genealogical research, you will find many helpful articles in the past issues of the German Genealogical Digest. An index to 20 years of instruction and advice is available there!

 

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