Bavaria/Bayern

History
Bavaria is divided into seven districts:
Oberpfalz, Niederbayern, Oberbayern, Unterfranken, Mittelfranken, Oberfranken, and Schwaben. Bavaria was ruled by the Wittelsbach family from 1180-1918. The best known is Ludwig II (1864-1886) who built the castles of Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, and Herrenchiemsee.

Border Changes
The southern portion of today's German State of Rheinland-Pfalz was once owned by Bavaria and was referred to as the "Rheinpfalz," "Rhennish Pfalz," "Rheinbayern," or "Palatinate," but it is no longer a part of modern Bavaria.

King Ludwig II liked Versailles so much he built his own on an island in the Chiemsee.  Postcard by Verlagsanstalt Fritz Zierer, Prien.

The Hall of Mirrors inside Herrenchiemsee. Postcard by Gebr. Metz, Tübingen 1906.

E-Mail Lists

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIAN-ANCESTORS.html

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIA.html

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/PFALZ.html

http://feefhs.org/DE/BAY/BAYRL/BAYRL.HTML

Websites for Bavaria

How to find ancestor records in Bavaria:

http://www.kahlgrund-genealogie.de/location.html
http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/bavaria
http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/bayern

http://progenealogist.com/germany/bavaria/index.html
http://www.kahlgrund-genealogie.de/location.html
http://genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html
http://www.bayern.de/The-people-of-Bavaria-.632.htm

Websites for Franconian
http://www.gf.franken.de

Beginner research & FAQ’s (frequently asked questions):

http://www.bavariagen.com/beginner.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~deubay/

Mailing List
http://list.genealogy.net/mm/listinfo/bavaria-l
http://list.genealogy.net/mm/listinfo/franken-l

Castles in Bavaria:
http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/

Bavarian Libraries
http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=kurzsammlungen&l=en
http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Ortsfamilienbuch_zu_Bayern

Maps – Internet

Historical maps of Bavaria from 962 to the present:

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/germany/haxbavaria.html

http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Bayern/uebersichtskarte.html

Bavarian Gazetteer: http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/bavaria/bavarian-gazetteer.htm

Southern Bavaria:  http://feefhs.org/maps/gerw/gw-sbav.html

Northern Bavaria:     http://feefhs.org/maps/gerw/gw-nbav.html 

LDS records

Type in the name of your village at:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

Bavarian Research Groups

http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/BLF/ (see their links also) Southern Bavaria.

http://www.gf-franken.de/index_e.html Northern Bavaria.

Archives

State Archives
http://www.gda.bayern.de ( Main Archive)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archive/coburg ( Coburg Staatsarchiv)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archive/nurenburg (Middle Franconia)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archive/landshut  (NiederBayern Staatsarchiv )

http://www.gda.bayern.de/archive/muenchen  (Oberbayern Staatsarchiv)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archive/bamberg  (Oberfranken Staasarchiv)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archiv/amberg  (Oberpfalz Staatsarchiv)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archiv/augsburg (Schwaben Staatsarchiv)
http://www.gda.bayern.de/archiv/wuerzburg  (Unterfranken Staatsarchiv)

Evangelical archives in Germany: 
http://www.ekd.de/archive/deutsch/regionen.htm 
http://www.lkan-elkb.de (Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern)

Catholic archives in Germany:

http://bistum-eichstaett.de/dioezesanarchiv (Middle Franconia)
http://www.ahnenforschung-benz.de/bistumsarchiv-passau.htm (Niederbayern)
http://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/Page000716.aspx(OberBayern)
http://www.erzbistum-bamberg.de/bildung/archiv/index.html  (Oberfranken)
http://www.bistum-regensburg.de/borPage003375.asp (Oberpfalz)

http://www.bistum-augsburg.de/index.php/bistum/Bistum/Geschicte/Archiv-des-Bistums/Geschichte-des-Archivs (Schwaben)
http://www.kirchenserver.net/bwo/dcms/sites/bistum/information/sgv/dioezesanarchiv/English.html  (Unterfranken)

Books
The GGS collection of Germanic Genealogy Books at Concordia University is St. Paul, MN has 7 books specifically on Bavarian genealogy, all of those 7 books are in English. Check the Library webpage for further information.

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