Top Genealogy Websites for Finding Ancestors in Germany

The following Websites contain free or fee-based databases users can search for individual ancestors who lived in Germany.

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Databases

 * Genealogy and biography search
 * Biography search
 * Emigration from Southwest Germany
 * German Newspapers
 * Historische Adressbuecher - Eine Sekundärquelle fuer die Familienforschung
 * IGI batch number search 
 * Poznan Project - marriage records from Posen, 1800-1899
 * Schleswig census
 * Schleswig-Holstein census
 * Wehdem Parish Records online
 * Westfalen Family Name search
 * German Gravesite database
 * Metasearch searches data in GedBas, Datenbank Historischer Adressbücher, Foko,Forschungsdatenbanken der Vereine, Online Ortsfamilienbücher, Familienanzeigen, and Volkszahlregister Schleswig Holstein

Genealogy

 * Aller Ursprung - Magdeburg Boerde
 * Familienforschung - Wittholz
 * Germany GenWeb
 * Ahnenforschung.net- German genealogical forum and link list
 * Forschungsstellen - research groups of the Association of East German Family Historians. Contact them to find out if records for a town in a former German area have survived.
 * Genealogy.net- German Genealogy on the Internet (German site)
 * Genealogy.net- English language section, which is separate from the German language site
 * GermanRoots.com- has resources and research information for Americans of German descent
 * German Names - Shareware for German Genealogy
 * German-Russian Genealogy
 * Germans from Russia Research
 * Ahnenstammkartei des deutschen Volkes - GenWiki article
 * Archivalia - Archive newsletter with links to genealogy information
 * Schloeder/Schleder Genealogy
 * German GenWiki
 * WVC Library Link list for German genealogy
 * FEEFHS resources for Germany
 * historic areal measures
 * helpful articles on German research topics(ProGenealogists website)
 * German research link list(Favos)
 * genealogy.net mailing lists
 * genealogylinks.net- Germany
 * Personalschriften.de - information about printed funeral sermons, with links to various indexes
 * helps for contributing to the English instance of GenWiki
 * LDS Batchnumbers- how to get to the original record (in German)
 * IGI German Batchnumber Index
 * DigiBib - Digital Library on genealogy.net
 * German Association of Professional Genealogists
 * Historical and genealogical digital publicationsfor sale
 * Genealogy Search Engine Mocavo

Related Pages

 * German Research Websites offers a much more extensive list of German genealogy resources than this list.
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