General FamilySearch Genealogy Records - Germany (requires free registration; to view some of the images you must be at an LDS Family History Center or a FamilySearch affiliated library). Includes some German baptism, marriage, and death indexes, and other items. FamilySearch also has some digitized microfilm of German genealogy records...
Matricula Online (ongoing project) has some digitized Catholic church books for the Dioceses of Hildesheim, Magdeburg, Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn, and Passau; and from the Official Archives in Vechta for churches in the former state of Oldenburg (part of the diocese of Münster) German Emigration Lists and Records [on this website] People who left Germany: this webpage contains links to online German emigration lists and indexes. National German Military Grave Registration Service (this site is in German) This organization maintains a database of more than 2 million names of missing and dead German soldiers from both World Wars. You can search this database online or write to them for assistance. Notes for searching: Nachname=surname; Vorname=first name; supplying a date of birth or death is optional. Click on "Suche beginnen" to start your search. You then must register with your name and address to continue the search. On the registration form, the following items are required: Vorname (first name), Nachname (last name), Straße / Nr. (Street & Number), Land/Plz/Ort (Country/Postal or Zip Code/City). Then click on "Zur Ergebniseite" to continue. On the next screen click "Suchanfrage ausführen." German War Memorial Website database of war casualties from memorial inscriptions and other sources Online German Family Heritage Books - Ortsfamilienbücher (more than 100 listings including the example below)
Baden-Württemberg Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Baden, Church Book Duplicates, 1804-1877 at FamilySearch; indexes civil transcripts of church books from over 50 locations in Baden Baden: Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau, Catholic Church Records, 1678-1930 at FamilySearch Mannheim, Germany, Family Registers, 1760-1900 (at Ancestry/requires payment); Ancestry also has Births, 1870-1900; Marriages, 1870-1920; and Death Records, 1870-1950 for Mannheim Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Württemberg, Germany, Family Tables, 1550-1985 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Family and Biographical Data: Birth, Marriage, Death circa 1600 to 1870/74/76 describes the collections of copies of some church registers and Jewish civil registration records they have available online Göppingen, Württemberg, Germany and surrounding villages This is a database from the Church books of Göppingen beginning in 1808. Weil Schoenbuch, Wuerttemberg Lutheran Marriage Records 1591-1700 Kappel am Rhein Family Names from the Dorfsippenbuch for this village in Baden Bayern (Bavaria) digiPress: Digitized Historical Newspapers from the Bavarian State Library Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 at Ancestry/requires payment Ansbach...
Munich and Freising:
Berlin Berlin, Germany, Births, 1874-1899 at Ancestry/requires payment; Ancestry also has Marriages and Deaths, 1874-1920 for Berlin Berlin Telephone Books, 1908-1991; and Address Directories, 1799-1943 Brandenburg Brandenburg, Germany, Transcripts of Church Records, 1700-1874 at Ancestry/requires payment. Has transcripts of more than 650 sets of church records for the state of Brandenburg, Germany from the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv. Coverage varies by parish -- most are from 1795-1874. Most are for Protestant churches. Landkreis Barnim, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1966 at Ancestry/requires payment; Ancestry also has Births, 1874-1906; and Marriages, 1874-1936 for Landkreis Barnim Bremen Bremer Adressbücher 1794-1955 (Bremen Address Directories) Bremen, Germany, Military Lists, 1712-1914 at Ancestry/requires payment Bremen, Germany Ships Crew Lists, 1815-1917 at Ancestry/requires payment; Ancestry also has: Bremen, Germany Sailors Registry (Bremer Seeleuteregister), 1824-1917. East Prussia (Ostpreussen) now in Poland See the first link in the West Prussia section below Hamburg Hamburg Generalregister Sterbefälle (General Register of Deaths), 1876-1983 PDF files Hamburg, Germany, Marriages, 1874-1920 at Ancestry (requires payment) Ancestry also has Hamburg Births, 1874-1901, and Deaths, 1874-1950. Hamburg Address Books Hannover: see the Niedersachsen section below Hesse (Hessen) Hessian Archive Documentation and Information System - Arcinsys includes Hessian Death Records 1876-1929, and other items
Hesse, Germany Births, 1851-1901 (at Ancestry/fee-based) coverage varies by civil registration office; Ancestry also has Lutheran church records, and civil marriage and death records for various places and time frames in Hesse Hesse Records Online at FamilySearch (free with registration)...
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) Mecklenburg, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1740-1918 (at Ancestry/fee-based) has transcripts of some duplicate church registers from Lutheran and Catholic parishes in the former Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, now part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; coverage varies by parish Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census Records Online for 1819, 1867, 1890 and 1900 (at Ancestry/fee-based) Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1900 at FamilySearch Grevesmühlen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1920 (at Ancestry/fee-based) Ancestry also has Grevesmühlen Births, 1876-1901 and Deaths, 1876-1950; includes Grevesmühlen and the communities of Börzow, Diedrichshagen, Friedrichshagen, Roggenstorf, and Bössow. Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Suche in den Online-Findbüchern des Niedersächsischen Landesarchivs general search engine for the Niedersachsen state archive (includes some emigration records) Former Kingdom/Province of Hannover
St. Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Schaumburg Province (Formerly Hessische Grafschaf Schaumburg), Lower Saxony index to church record extractions (marriages and confirmations) Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) NRW State Archive: Landesarchiv, Rhineland, Digitized Death Records includes duplicates of the civil death records from the Rhineland region of North Rhine-Westphalia, c.1870s-c.1930s; not yet complete; ongoing project; includes Aachen, Bonn, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Essen and other places; coverage varies by place Bocholt Population lists, 17th-19th Centuries lists of inhabitants for the city of Bocholt Dortmund Civil Registration Death Records Münster: Diocese of Münster Catholic Church Records (images online) listed by parish; not indexed Minden, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1966 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Ancestry also has Minden Births, 1874-1905; Marriages, 1874-1935; and other records for Minden Sauerländer Arbeitskreise für Familienforschung PDF files that can be downloaded with vital records for the following towns: Endorf, Eslohe, Hellefeld, Kallenhardt, Schönholthausen, Schliprüthen & Stockum Kreis Viersen: Indexes for Civil Births, Marriages and Deaths Wehdem Evangelical Church Records (includes the villages of Wehdem, Oppendorf, Westrup & Oppenwehe) Index of Some Surnames of Windheim Parish (includes the villages of Windheim, Ilse, Joessen, Haevern, Rosenhagen, Neuenknick, Seelenfeld & Doehren) Bergischer Datenpool (Data Pool) genealogy database with user contributed material for the Bergisches Land area including Wuppertal Pommern (Pomerania) parts now in Poland Pomeranian Genealogical Association Databases includes christenings, marriages, deaths and more Germany, Prussia, Pomerania Church Records, 1544-1945 at FamilySearch (requires free registration) Pomerania, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1544-1883 at Ancestry/requires payment Genealogy in Archives - sources for the history of the inhabitants of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship has a database with genealogy records for the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province Pommerndatenbank includes address books and some church records Geneteka has indexes for some parish registers in Pomerania Pomeranian Pedigree Database contains over 100,000 names input by the members of the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt (Pomeranian Society of Freistadt) Die Vorfahren Surname Database of Pomerania & Surrounding Regions This index has about 127,000 names that have apppeared in Die Pommerschen Leute (German Pomeranian Newsletter) from 1982-2012. Greif-Index (personal database) indexes some Pomeranian church and civil registers; from the Pommerscher Greif eV, Association for Pomeranian Family and Local History West Pomeranian Genealogical Society: Pomeranian Indexes State Archives in Koszalin - Online Resources includes some civil registration records for former German villages now in Poland Also see the "Eastern Prussian Provinces" link in the Westpreussen section below. Posen (Poznan) now in Poland Poznan Marriage Indexing Project index for 817,000 marriages from the Prussian province of Posen Civil Registrations (Births, 1874-1877) for Bartschin, Kreis Schubin - now Barcin, (Szubin), Poland Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1556-1973 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Ludwigshafen, Germany, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1798-1875 (at Ancestry/requires payment); Ancestry also has Births, 1876-1903; Marriages, 1876-1924; Deaths, 1875-1950; and Family Tables, 1730-1903 for Ludwigshafen. Mainz, Germany, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1798-1875 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Also included with a fee-based Ancestry subscription:
Steinfeld, Germany Deaths, 1683-1793 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Trier Genealogy Records and Indexes...
List of Palatines from Germany to England in 1709 (most went on to America) Sachsen (Saxony) formerly the Kingdom, then Republic of Saxony Saxony, Leipzig, Miscellaneous City Records from FamilySearch; includes births (1814-1877) and some census records; not indexed Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1952 at Ancestry/requires payment; Ancestry also has Marriages, 1876-1922; and Births, 1876-1904 for Limbach-Oberfrohna Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) former Prussian province of Saxony Saxony, Prussia, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1760-1890 at Ancestry/requires payment Saxony, Prussia Census Lists, 1770-1934 at FamilySearch Halle (Saale), Germany, Deaths, 1874-1957 at Ancestry/requires payment; Ancestry also has Marriages, 1874-1933; and Births, 1874-1903 for Halle (Saale) Magdeburg, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1950 at Ancestry/requires payment; Ancestry also has Marriages, 1874-1923; and Births, 1874-1903 for Magdeburg Oschersleben, Germany Deaths, 1874-1985 at Ancestry/requires payement; Ancestry also has Births, 1874-1905 for Oschersleben Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Records of St. Michael's, Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 1799-1874 Also see the Thuringia section below. Schleswig-Holstein AKVZ-Databank Schleswig-Holstein Census Registers Genealogy in Schleswig Holstein, Germany Includes some census and emigration records for this German state. Genealogy Records from the Parish of Erfde, Schleswig features downloadable PDF files of church records, graves, census records & emigrants - includes: Erfde, Tielen, Bargen, Scheppern, Pahlhorn & Tielenhemme Schleswig-Holstein: Kreis Steinburg, Civil Registration Records, 1874-1983 at FamilySearch Thüringen (Thuringia) Saxony and Thuringia, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1591-1875 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Weimar, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Ancestry also has Weimar Births, 1876-1903; and Weimar Marriages, 1876-1920. Erfurt, Germany, Births, 1874-1901 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Ancestry also has marriages, 1874-1900; and death records, 1874-1935 for Erfurt Erfurt, Germany, Transcripts of Church Records, 1806-1874 (at Ancestry/requires payment) Erfurt, Deutschland, Kirchenbuchduplikate, 1806-1874 Westpreussen (West Prussia) now in Poland Eastern Prussian Provinces, Germany [Poland], Selected Civil Vitals, 1874-1945 at Ancestry/requires payment; coverage varies by place; includes some civil vital records from West Prussia, East Prussia, Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania and Posen-West Prussia The West Prussian Land Register of 1772-1773 Familienforschung in Westpreussen database of about 100,000 residents with 12,700 surnames in 3 counties: Briesen, Graudenz and Strasburg (and adjacent districts) Putzig, West Prussia Genealogy Records 1660-1890 Assorted birth, marriage and death records extracted from the Catholic Church records of Putzig, West Prussia -- today called Puck, Poland. Civil Registrations (Births) in West Prussia for the following towns...
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