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General Resources

• LDS Family History Library Catalog (search by county or province as well as by country to find what has been filmed). Also check out their new German Resource Wiki
  
  
• Cyndi's List: Germany links
  
  
  HELP!  I googled grandpa's family in Saxony and something that looks wonderful came but its all in German.  How can I translate this?
  
  go to Yahoo BabelFish  and use their "Translate a web page feature"  put in the web address, pull down the menu to select "from and to languages"  (from German to English) and it will translate the page for you.  It might be kind of strange phrasing but you will be able to tell most of what is on that page!
   
• FEEFHS - Federation of East European Family History Societies
  (Check out their Master Index Page for an overview of more of what they have)
  
  
• Genealogy.net: Resources for Genealogists in German-Speaking Areas
  
   
• German Genealogy (About.com)
  
  
• Germany GenWeb 
  
  
• German - Prussian Genealogy Bridge 
  
  
• German Roots 
  
  
• Ruth Ann's German-Austrian-Prussian Links  
  
  

Reference Tools

• 18th Century PA German Naming Customs
  
   
• Basic Research Guide for German Genealogy
  
  
• German-English Online Dictionary 
  
  
• German Handwriting Guide
  
  
• German Historical Maps 
  
  
• German Letter Writing Guide  Help for researchers who do not speak German but must write Germany, Austria or parts of Switzerland to request genealogical records.
  
  
• German Research Frequently Asked Questions
  
  
• German Naming Patterns
  
  
• Guide to Original Family Records at the Family History Library (Ancestry)
  
  
• Hamburg Emigration List Name Permutations (shows alternate spellings you will need)
  
  

Archives, Libraries & Societies

• Directory of Libraries in Germany  (LibWeb)
  
  
• Germany and German-American Genealogy Resources at the University of Minnesota  includes Swiss and Austrian Sources
  
  
• German Genealogy: Guide to Libraries On-line
  
   
• Identifying German Names
  
  
• Immigrant Genealogy Society (IGS)  Founded in California in 1982 to help Americans trace ancestor's origins primarily from German speaking areas of Europe.
  
  
  

Geographic Help

• see also: WVC Historical Maps of Europe page
  
  
• Database of Towns/Villages east of Oder/Neisse Rivers  (located in the former German provinces of Pommerania, West-and East Prussia, Silesia, Brandenburg, Posen).
   
• German Gazetteers
  
  
• German Town & Place Finder 
  
  
• ShtetlSeeker - Town Search for Central and Eastern Europe
  
  
  
  

History

• Carpathian German History
  
• German History in Documents and Pictures
  
• German History WWW Links
  
   
• Locating Information for the study of German history (Baylor University)
   
• Open Source Directory of German History Resources
  
  
  
  

Immigration & Emigration

• DAUSA: German Immigrants to the U.S.
  
   
• German Emigration and Immigration
  
  
• German Immigration & Emigration Links
  
  
  

Germans to Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch)

• Kraig Ruckel' Palatine & Pennsylvania Dutch Page
  
  
• Palatines to America  
  
  
• Poor Palatines - a history by Gene Garman
  
  
• Pre-1800 German Speaking Ancestors Sought
  
  

Germans to Virginia (Germanna Colonies)

• John Blankenbaker's Germanna Notes (he also appears to have further notes in this directory (just click on the links - not so easy to navigate but excellent information)
  
  
• Life of Alexander Spotswood
  

Germans to Russia

• AHSGR - American Historical Society of Germans to Russia (don't miss their links page)
  
  
• Bukovina Society of the Americas
  
  
• Catholic Germans from Russia and Romania
  
  
• Emigration Port Hamburg ( a history of the emigration from Hamburg)
  
  
• Cyndi's List: German/Russian Genealogy Links
  
  
• German American Cultural Heritage
  
  
• German Russian Heritage Society
  
  
• German Russian Village List
  
  
• German Russians from the Volga Region
  
  
• Germans From Russia Genealogy Portal
  
  
• Germans From Russia Heritage Collection
  
  
• Germans in Wisconsin 
  
  
• Golden Jubilee of German-Russian Settlements (Kansas but it has stories of how they came etc.)
  
  
• History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary
  
  
• Master Listing of Germans From Russia on the Net
  
  
• Norka: A German Colony in Russia
  
  
• Odessa German-Russain Digital Library
  
  
• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
  
  
• St. Paul's Evangelical Church, Fort Collins, CO
  
  
• Texas Germanic Heritage 
  
  
• USA Counties with German Russians
  
  

Germans to South American

• German Migration to Brazil