Germanic Genealogy Society
A branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society

Helping Members Research Germanic Ancestors Worldwide

LINKS Provided by GGS

The links on this page are taken from the books Germanic Genealogy a Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns, 3rd Edition and the Beginner's Guide to Germanic Genealogy, 2nd Edition. Additional information about these web sites and more may be obtained by consulting these books.
Visit our Regional Pages to learn more about the Germanic States.

General Genealogy

FamilySearch - Cyndi's List

Family History Library Cyndi's List Germany

Ancestry.com Gen Team

RootsWeb Mailing Lists

Heritage Quest

Genealogy Search Tool

Mocavo

One-Step Webpages by Steve Morse
"Tools for searching various databases, including ship passenger lists"

New Facebook 'thing' by FamilySearch

LISTS

German E-mail Lists

Hamburg passenger lists

German Genealogy European Genealogy

Genealogy.net FEEFHS

Genealogy.net FAQs

The German Americans: An Ethnic Experience

Place of Origin

Geogen —                                                                 Germany’s Telephone Book
   Surname Mapping Tool                                          Another Book
                                                                                      Infobel

ShtetlSeeker - Jewish ProGenealogists, Gazetteers

Maps

Google Maps Bing Maps

FEEFHS Map Room German Empire Map – Ravenstein

Map of Germany in 1789                                     Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Historical maps of Germany and Prussia     Freizeitkarte
Pommerscher Verein Freistadt sells Pomeranian Kreis (county) maps, (1930s) with a scale of 1:100,000

Austria-Hungary Empire

Emigration and Immigration

Emigration Resource                                               Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

ProGenealogists

Library of Congress, European Reading Room, Germans in America

Library of Congress, German Immigration

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Genealogy

Hamburg Passenger Lists

Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934

Castle Garden                                                                                        Ellis Island Immigration Museum

Gothic Print and Script

“Reading German Handwritten Records” Online Class
        Select Learn, Research Courses, and enter the search words "Reading Handwriting Series"

German Script Tutorial

German Gothic Handwriting (pdf file)

Deciphering German Script

Peter Doerling’s Sütterlin Site
A tutorial for learning Sütterlin

Societies

    East European Genealogical Society
    Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
    Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
    German-Bohemain Heritage Society
    American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
    Germans from Russia Heritage Society
    Odessa – A German Russian Genealogical Library
   Palatines to America
    Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota
    Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society – has many records for Prussia and the Russian Empire
    State archives in present-day Germany

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Germanic Genealogy Society A branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society

Helping Members Research Germanic Ancestors Worldwide

LINKS Provided by GGS

Germanic Genealogy Society
A branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society