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Cemeteries
For a comprehensive understanding of cemetery records, study the article Germany Cemeteries.

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

 * Germany FindAGrave Index, 1600-today, index and images
 * Billion Graves
 * Angrada
 * Links on the Interment.net website
 * Genealogy.net Gravestone picture database
 * Ermland Grave sites (Warmia Blues
 * The German Military Grave Registration Service. Maintains 2 million war graves in over 640 cemeteries. Assists in grave identification and restoration. Provides assistance in determining the fate of German war dead. Online Tomb Search
 * Hamburger Friedhöfe

Census
For a comprehensive understanding of census records, study the article Germany Census.

Court Records
For a comprehensive understanding of court records, study the article Germany Census.

Emigration and Immigration
For a comprehensive understanding of emigration and immigration records, study the article Germany Emigration and Immigration.

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

 * German Emigrant Data Base,covers 1820-1939, main source: New York passenger lists beginning in 1820, supplemented by material found in Germany, ($)

U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes

 * The Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists 1850-1934
 * Bremen passenger lists, 1920-1939
 * French Lines
 * Ellis Island Records - New York arrivals 1892-1924, limited search functionality, includes images
 * CastleGarden – passenger arrivals in New York 1820-1913, currently not linked to images
 * One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse for the Ellis Island website and Castle Garden allows searches by various fields, with or without a complete name
 * Emigrants coming through Canada
 * Immigrant Ships Transcribers’ Guild

Military Records
For a comprehensive understanding of military records, study the article Germany Military Records.

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

 * Germany &amp; Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers, ($). 1500-1939. Index. In German.
 * Germany and Austria, Military and Marine Unit Histories, ($). 1760-1933. Index and images. In German.
 * Germany, Military and Marine Weekly Publications. 1816-1942. Index and images. In German.
 * German Navy Crew Chronicle, ($). 1891-1918. Index. Incomplete.
 * Germany, Torpedo Personnel Register. 1911. Index. Incomplete.
 * German Casualties in the Franco-Prussian War, ($). 1870-1871. Images, no index. In German. Incomplete.

World War I, 1914 to 1918
1914-1918: World War I. Alsace-Lorrraine (Elsaß-Lothringen) returned to France. Parts of eastern Germany ceded to Lithuania and Poland.

Service Records

 * Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918)
 * Histories of German and Austrain Division,1917-1918. NAID 6487553 National Archives
 * Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 (Ancestry) ($) - requires Ancestry Worldwide subscription. Over 8 million records. Records are in German.

Casualty Records

 * Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1917 (Ancestry) ($) - requires Ancestry Worldwide subscription. Over 5 million records. Records are in German.
 * Germany, Navy Casualty List, 1914-1915 (Ancestry) ($) - requires Ancestry Worldwide subscription. Records are in German.
 * Genwiki World War I Casualty Lists.
 * The World Remembers - WWI Deaths

Prisoners of War
Cemetery Records
 * Numerical Lists of German Prisoners of War Interned by the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1918-1919 NAID 6706704
 * Organizational Lists of German Prisoners of War Interned by the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1918-1919 NAID 1918-1919
 * Lists of German Prisoners of War Assigned to Prisoner of War Company Commanders when Labor Companies were Formed, 1918-1919 NAID 6455801
 * Database of war graves from WW I and WWII German War Cemetery records database

World War II, 1939 to 1945
1939-1945: World War II. Many German records were destroyed.

Prisoner of War Records

 * Prisoner of War Rosters, 1942-1947, National Archives NAID 849166 This collection contains records of prisoners of war interned in the United States
 * Records Relating to Prisoners of War, 1942-1927, National Archives NAID 865093 Includes deaths lists sent to the International Red Cross.
 * Records Relating to German Prisoners of War, 1943-1952, National Archives NAID 876973

Cemetery Records

 * Database of war graves from WW I and WWII German War Cemetery records database

=Naturalization & Citizenship= =Newspapers= =Obituaries= For a comprehensive understanding of obituary records, study the article Germany Obituaries.

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=Background= =Biography= =Church Directories= =Church History= =Former German Areas= =Funerary Customs= =Cultural Areas= =Gazetteers= For a comprehensive understanding of gazetteers, study the article Germany Gazetteers.

Nationwide Gazetteers

 * Meyer's 1871 Gazetteer

=German Word List= =Handwriting= =Historical Geography= =History= =Jurisdictions= =Languages= =Letter Writing Guide= =Maps= For a comprehensive understanding of maps, study the article Germany Maps.

Germany Nationwide Maps

 * Ravenstein's Atlas of the German Empire covers Germany as it existed between 1871 and 1914. The maps and accompanying gazetteer from the University of Wisconsin Libraries can be downloaded in sections. Once downloaded, each colored map can be enlarged to show details. Localities are charted down to the parish level.
 * Königliche Preußische Landesaufnahme. Kartographische Abteilung. Karte des Deutschen Reiches (Map of the German Empire). Scale1:100,000. Berlin, Germany: Königliche PreußischeLandesaufnahme, 1914-1917. (FHL film 68,814.) This map will help you find places in the former German Empire as they existed from 1871 to 1914. The detailed maps on this microfilm are in numerical order. A digital verson of this map is available on www.ancestry.com at this link. You can also search the Ancestry card catalog for the term "Ubersichtsblatt" to get to the map set.

=Names Personal= =Nobility= For a comprehensive understanding of nobility records, study the article Germany Nobility.

Germany Nationwide Records Links

 * Hefner, Otto Titian von. Stammbuch des blühenden und abgestorbenen Adels in Deutschland (Lineages of flourishing and extinct nobles in Germany). Four Volumes in Two. Regensburg, Germany: Georg Joseph Mainz, 1860-1866. (FHL book 943D22h; film 491,136 online This is a quick reference list of German noble families.
 * Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung (IDA)
 * Wikipedia links to German noble families
 * Nobility of the World--Germany

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