Germany Online Classes and Tutorials

Address Books
Using German Address Books to Find Records
 * Using German Address Books to Find Records: Introduction
 * Using German Address Books to Find Records: Address Books Databases
 * Using German Address Books to Find Records: From Address Book to Record
 * Using German Address Books to Find Records: From Address Books to the Record part 2
 * Using German Address Books to Find Records: Finding Address Books Online

Archives

 * Research in German Archives

Beginning Courses

 * German Research, BYU Independent Study, no cost.
 * Germany Beginning Research Series:
 * Lesson 1: Getting Started
 * Lesson 2: Learn about Historical Background
 * Lesson 3: Using Maps, Gazetteers and Websites

Calendars

 * Calendar Changes in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries

Census Records

 * German Census Records 1816-1916

Church Records

 * Hansen’s Map Guides: Finding Records with Parish Maps
 * German Church and Civil Records
 * German Church Records and Beyond: Deepen Your Research Using a Variety of Town Records
 * Extracting Information from German Church and Civil Records
 * German Church Records and Beyond: Deepen Your Research Using a Variety of Town Records

Civil Registration Records

 * German Church and Civil Records
 * Extracting Information from German Church and Civil Records

Emigration and Immigration

 * Finding German Places of Origin
 * Elusive Immigrant: Methods of Proving Identity

FamilySearch Wiki
Germany Research With the Wiki
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 1 of 14: The Germany Genealogy Main Page
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 2 of 14: Finding Your German Town of Origin in Home Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 3 of 14: Finding Your German Town of Origin in U.S. Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 4 of 14: Finding German Origin: Naturalization and Immigration
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 5 of 14: Finding German Town of Origin in German Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 6 of 14: Germany Maps and Gazetteers
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 7 of 14: Germany Wiki Province Pages
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 8 of 14: Finding Aids for German Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 9 of 14: Germany Indexed Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 10 of 14: Reading Original German Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 11 of 14: Germany Online Civil Registration
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 12 of 14: Germany Online Church Records
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 13 of 14: Germany Archives
 * Germany Research With the Wiki Part 14 of 14: Writing for German Records

Finding Aids

 * Lost Shoebox: German and Polish Online Records

Gazetteers

 * Meyer's Gazetteer Now Online, Indexed and Fully Searchable!
 * Kartenmeister.com Finding Places in the Former German Area of Poland
 * Finding Places in the Former German Areas of Poland Using the Online Gazetteer Kartenmeister.com

Geography

 * Spelling Variations in German Given and Place Names
 * German Historical Maps and Territories
 * German Historical Geography

Handwriting and Vocabulary

 * Reading German Handwritten Records:
 * Lesson 1: Kurrent Letters
 * Lesson 2: Making Words in Kurrent
 * Lesson 3: Reading Kurrent Documents
 * Old German Script Part 1
 * Old German Script Part 2
 * Old German Script (German Church and Civil Records) Part 3
 * Latin for Genealogists

MetaSearch

 * Using Metasuche or Metasearch on Genealogy.net

Regional Research

 * Russian Germans in the North Caucasus
 * German Research: Strategies and Sources for Eastern Provinces
 * The Volga German Settlements in Russia
 * Lost Shoebox: German and Polish Online Records

Town Genealogies (Ortssippenbücher, Familienbücher)

 * Online Ortsfamilienbücher (Village lineage books) at Genealogy.net