GENEALOGY INFORMATION PAGE
This our German genealogy resource page.
This web page has several good genealogy links for doing research in family genealogy. These links link to many of the major genealogy
sites for genealogy researchers both in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe. However, web links for Michigan and Germany, Prussian,
Austrian, Swiss, Tyrolean genealogy sites are emphasized.
We have included several web sites for the much needed information sources and history web sites for Prussia, East Prussia, Pommern,
Schlesien, and Brandenburg. Web links for Church records and immigration ship departures are also included.
We are looking for additional web links for sites dealing with the former German Landers, territories, and settlements. If you
know of any, please send their URL's to preussen@germanways.com
An excellent source of true fonts for Fraktur printing is available at the Gutenberg Press and a good book for understanding the
German Fraktur and old German handwriting is now available on the book catalog page for genealogy at Lübecks Bookstore.
And when you need any good genealogical books to help in your research, visit Lübecks Bookstore's
Genealogy Books .
German Genealogy Web Links
- Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Pommern
An excellent site preserving the culture and history of Pommern. Offers help in genealogy information.
- Family researchers,
Discover Your Genealogy Easily
Research census records, genealogy libraries, marriage and birth records, cemetery records, military records, and much more.
- Frequently asked questions of German Genealogy FAQS
An excellent source of hard to find information.
- German genealogy Suchen Links
Sie suchen ihre vorfahen in Deutchland?
- German telephone numbers Telefonbuch
German/English: Type in a surname, only, and every listing with that name in Germany will be displayed.
- German postal codes Post Info
Die PLZ und Strassenauskunft für Deutschland. (Auf Deutsch)
- German postal codes Postleitzahlenbuch
Das Postleitzahlenbuch für Deutschland oder U.S.A. (Auf Deutsch/Englisch).
- U.S. Postal codes U.S.Postal Codes
The postal codes for U.S.A. (In English)
- Historische Karten/Historical Maps. Map Directory
Addressen des Landesvermessungsämter in Deutschland: All present States are included.
- German placename etymology Ortsnamen
This page will help in defining city, towns, or other place name origins.
- Deutsche Dialete/German Dialects German Dialects
Definitions, regions and a large dialect placement map.
- Genealogy links for Michigan Cyndis List
Lots of genealogy web site links for nearly everyone.
- Michigan US GenWeb Genealogy Homepage
More excellent genealogy web links.
- Roots web Homepage
The Internet's oldest and largest genealogy site. And still of the best.
- Ships and passenger lists Immigrant Ship Information
Ship departures, and passenger lists, from Germany.
- USGenWeb Archives Archives
One of the largest on-line genealogical sources.
- Letter writing assistance Sample Letters
For those wishing to send genealogical inquiries to a country whose language they do not speak, this page offers identical
sample letters to a registrar's office or archive. Translations into several languages are available.
- Deciphering old handwriting Homepage
This page deals with old English handwriting.
- German Genealogical research before the Church records began. Homepage
Informational page for search methods, especially in Baden-Württemberg.
- German genealogy on the web Cyndis List
Many good links, sources of genealogical information and how to search in Germany.
- Research Genealogy
A great research for finding hard to find villages or ones no longer in existence. While intended for
Jewish genealogy researchers, it may be useful for anyone searching for towns and villages in Central and Eastern Europe.
Note: Sometimes a letter written to the mayor of a town or village or a letter to the Heimatkundlicher Verein Wardt in the village or nearest town
can help to locate information about your relatives in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland.
Understanding German Fraktur and Schreibschrift
- The Gutenberg Press Homepage
History of Fraktur, German True Font Fraktur script software for sale, and much more.
- Fraktur Fonts
This web site offers examples of German True Type Fonts.
- True Fonts
This web site offers Runic, Ancient Germanic, Celtic, and Viking Oriented Fonts.
- Fraktur Fonts
This stein collectors site deals with understanding fraktur fonts on steins.
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Utility Links
Return to German Information Directory
A source of information about Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other German speaking lands.
- Visit Burg Jägerhof Castle Site
A medieval German castle and information site.
- Visit the Sedelmeier family Homepage
Includes the families of the Sedelmeier, Paschke, Priebe, Stahl, Kaiser, Dörflinger, Twork, and others.
Visit the Art Gallery at Lübeck Haus
Offers an extensive selection of more than 300,000 fine art prints, wall posters, wall tapestries, and photographs in hundreds of popular categories.
Choose your own custom frames from countless combinations of framing and matting materials.
All right on your computer screen, and with great customer service and at affordable prices.
- Go to Lübecks Bookstore catalog Catalogue Directory
We carry an extensive selection of the latest books for stone and timber construction, genealogy, travel, business, science, technical, and how-to books and at reasonable prices.
- Go to Lübeck Haus Store Directory
We offer an extensive selection of books, audio books, music, DVD & VHS movies, home and office electronics, computers, video games, software, cellular phones, tools,
hardware, jewelry, clothing, games and toys.
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This page was last updated September 08, 2006.