BERLIN

History
The area of Berlin was settled first by Slavic tribes in the 700’s. Berlin received city rights in 1242. In 1701 Berlin was the capital of Prussia. The Swedes occupied Berlin from 1618-1648, the French in 1806, and the Russians in 1945. The siege of Berlin in WWII wrecked 70% of the city. After WWII the capital of West Germany was moved to Bonn in 1949. The capital of East Germany remained Berlin. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, was crossed on November 9, 1989. German reunification, which many of us thought would never come in our lifetime, came on October 3^rd, 1990. In  June 1991, the German Parliament voted to move the German capital from Bonn back to Berlin. Government Offices moved back  from 1997 to 1998.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin
http://www.lodging-germany.com/info/Berlin/berlin-2history.htm
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/berlin.html
http://www.aviewoncities.com/berlin/dom.htm 
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html (The Berlin Wall)
http://www.berlin-info.de/english/sights/tour.html

The Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

E-Mail Lists
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/DEU-BERLIN.html
http://feefhs.org/DE/BER/BERLINRL/BERLINRL.HTML  Message Board
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Berlin                  Message Board

MAPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Berlin.bezirke.png    Showing the districts of Berlin
http://www.alt-berlin.info/pages/index.htm                    1738 to 1999
http://mitglied.lycos.de/Pomerania2/images/Baed4.jpg   Detailed 1809 map
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Field/5675/       1938 map, click on the square you want

ARCHIVES and RECORDS
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BRG/bb.html
Many records exist for Berlin. Do a “Place,” search here:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

BOOKS
The GGS collection of Germanic Genealogy Books at Concordia University is St. Paul, MN has 7 books specifically on Berlin genealogy, of those 7 books 4 are in German.

FLAGS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Berlin.svg
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=berlin+flags&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=Vl-zS9eNM4yENpbQ5ewD&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB4QsAQwAw

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