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.

Databases

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

Genealogy

 * German-Russian Genealogy
 * Germans from Russia Research
 * Ahnenstammkartei des deutschen Volkes - GenWiki article
 * DigiBib - Digital Library on genealogy.net

Related Pages

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