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:

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

German Emigration and Immigration Articles:

• 18th Century German Emigration Research 
• Bureaucracy of Emigration and Its Traces in German Archives
• Finding Origins of 18th Century Emigration from Southern Germany
• Hamburg 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.)
• Identifying Emigrants and Immigrants
• The Palatine Project
• Passenger Departure Lists of German Emigrants

Regional German Articles:

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

Indexes to German Articles:

• 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!