How To Find Your Ancestors In German Records

Are you curious about your German roots, but it feels like looking for a needle in a haystack for them?

Do you wonder where you can find records in Germany and how you can access them? Are you unsure about what records are even available in the first place? What’s survived and where are they?

Do you not know what’s possible to search after Ancestry and FamilySearch? Are you curious about which German (or Czech, Latvian, Russian, Polish, French) websites and repositories may have the key documents to discover your family?

You know where they were from, but you just need some help figuring out where to start looking there.

Figuring out where to research in someone’s home country is half the battle. That’s why I’ve created the How To Find Your Ancestors In German Records: A Resource Guide to help you get started on your overseas research.

With this guide, you’ll…

• Know exactly where to look so you can get right to the good stuff – digging through records!

• Save a ton of time searching for resources and know where to look for what type of resource

• Feel confident that you’re covering the essential places to search

• Have tools to read and translate the records you find

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Nearly 200 links to resources

General resources

Religious records

Jewish resources

Immigration and emigration records

Maps and gazetteers

Newspapers

Libraries and archives with special collections

Regional resources if your family came from a place in the Empire now in another country

Glossary of German genealogical terms

Glossary of Latin genealogical terms

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