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Parish Register Inventories
Church record inventories are essential tools for finding German records. They identify what records should be available for a specified parish and where to write for information on these records. They list the church records, their location, and the years they cover. Sometimes inventories explain which parishes served which towns at different periods of time.

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
 * 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

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 Court Records.

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

Genealogy
For a comprehensive understanding of compiled genealogy records, study the article Germany Compiled Genealogies.  Bavaria, Pfalz, Hannover, Lubeck, Wurttemberg

Major Online Collections and Databases
The Family History Library has several sources that contain previous research or that can lead you to other people who are interested in sharing family information. These sources include many ancestral lines that extend into Germany:


 * International Genealogical Index:This index provides names and vital information for over 25 million deceased persons who lived in Germany. This valuable research tool lists birth, baptism, or marriage dates. The index for Germany includes names extracted from parish registers by volunteers and names submitted by other researchers. You can filter on one of eight German states and filter Germany, Miscellaneous:


 * Alsace-Lorraine
 * Baden
 * Bayern
 * Hesse-Darmstadt
 * Prussia
 * Sachsen
 * Thuringen
 * Wuerttemberg
 * }
 * Filtering on Germany, Miscellaeous.includes only the small states and free cities of:
 * Wuerttemberg
 * }
 * Filtering on Germany, Miscellaeous.includes only the small states and free cities of:




 * Anhalt
 * Braunschweig
 * Bremen
 * Hamburg
 * Lippe
 * Lübeck
 * Mecklenburg
 * Oldenburg
 * Schaumburg-Lippe
 * Waldeck
 * }
 * GEDBAS and the Metasearch at Compgen.de have searchable links to many genealogical collections.
 * Waldeck
 * }
 * GEDBAS and the Metasearch at Compgen.de have searchable links to many genealogical collections.

Town Genealogy Books (Ortssippenbücher)
An Ortssippenbuch (town lineage book) or Ortsfamilienbuch (town family book) includes birth, marriage, and death data for all persons found in the local records during a specified time period, compiled into families. Sources may include the local parish registers, civil registration records, court and land records, and sometimes published material. In the printed book, this information is then arranged in a standardized format, usually alphabetically by surname and chronologically by marriage date. Family entries are identified by sequential numbers. Town genealogies are known by various names, including “town lineage book,” “local heritage book,” “one-place-studies,” “Ortssippenbuch (OSB),” and “Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB).” This article will use the term “town genealogy” and the abbreviation OFB when referring to compilations that include all or a large part of a town’s population.


 * Over 620 online town genealogies are currently accessible at Online Ortsfamilienbücher.
 * A list of published Ortssippenbücher is found at:Category: Family Book on the same website.
 * Some regional genealogical societies have published town genealogies. For example, Die Maus, the Bremen area genealogical society, includes about thirty town genealogy databases on its website.
 * For more information and online searchable collections of town genealogy books, by region, see Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet.
 * A bibliography of OFBs held by the Central Office for Person and Family History, and available in their archive in Frankfurt am Main-Höchst, is listed here. You can arrange for copied pages to be sent to you for a fee or donation. Use the "Find" function on your keyboard to search the bibliographies, as they are not alphabetical.

Land & Property
For a comprehensive understanding of land and property records, study the article Germany Land and Property.

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

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= For a comprehensive understanding of naturalization and citizenship records, study the article Germany Naturalization and Citizenship.

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

Germany Occupations
For a comprehensive understanding of occupation records, study the article Germany Occupations.

=Ortssippenbücher= For a comprehensive understanding of town genealogies, study the article Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet.

Town Genealogies (Ortssippenbuch or Ortsfamilienbuch)
See the class,, and Wiki article, Germany Town Genealogies and Parish Register Inventories on the Internet. Published town genealogies, Ortssippenbuch (town lineage book) or Ortsfamilienbuch (town family book), generally include birth, marriage, and death data for all persons found in the local records during a specified time period, compiled into families based on the opinion of the author. 'If one is available, it should only be used as an index or guide'' to finding the original records. They usually contain errors. Always verify their information in original records.

Finding OFBs

 * Click here to see OFBs at GenWiki. These are indexed and searchable. OFB Instructions.
 * A bibliography of OFBs held by the Central Office for Person and Family History, and available in their archive in Frankfurt am Main-Höchst, is listed here. You can arrange for copied pages to be sent to you for a fee or donation. Use the "Find" function on your keyboard to search the bibliographies, as they are not alphabetical.

=Periodicals= For a comprehensive understanding of periodicals, study the article Germany Periodicals.

=Probate Records = None

=Religious Records= None

=School Records= None

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

Germany Nationwide Gazetteers
The Family History Library uses one gazetteer as the standard guide for listing German places in the catalog. Regardless of the various jurisdictions a place may have been under at different times, all German places are listed by the jurisdictions used in the following reference:

Uetrecht, E. Meyer  s Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs(Meyers Place- and Traffic directory of the German Empire). Fifth Edition. Leipzig, Germany: Bibliographisches Institute, 1912-3. (FHL book Ref 943 E5mo; films 496,640-1; fiche 6,000,001-29.)

Meyer's gazetteer (often referred to as Meyers Orts) lists the names of places as they existed in Germany from 1871 to 1912. It gives the name of the state or province where each town was located at that time. The gazetteer is written in Gothic print, which can be hard to read.

Meyer's gazetteer is available in digital form.

Kartenmeister.com
For the provinces of East Prussia (Ostpreussen), Posen, Pomerania (Pommern), Silesia (Schlesien), parts of Brandenburg, and West Prussia (Westpreussen), areas which no longer belong to Germany, the online gazetteer Kartenmeister most efficiently tells you parish information:
 * Class: Kartenmeister.com Finding Places in the Former German Area of Poland

Example:

=German Word List= =Handwriting= =Historical Geography= For a more comprehensive understanding of historical geography, study the article Germany Historical Geography.

=History= For a more comprehensive understanding of German history, study the article Germany 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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=Ethnicity= =French Influence = =Germans from Russia= =Minorities=