Research (or focus Areas): We focus on all areas of German genealogical research.
Research Services:
* We are located near and can use the services of the National Archives at Riverside California (NARA) 23123 Cajalco Road, Perris California92570-7298;
* The German Genealogical Collections of the Immigrant German Genealogical Library 1310 Magnolia Blvd. Burbank California and also the Ron Roberts Temecula Valley Public Library Genealogical Collection, 30600 Pauba Rd. Temecula California 92592.
Extensive genealogical Research is not performed.
Ways to find your surname origin
* http://geogen.stoepel.net/ Surname Distribution Map (Family Search)
* http://legacy.stoepel.net/en - The Geogen Surname Mapping Tool identifies where the surname is found in Germany today
* https://nvk.genealogy.net/map Name Distribution Map
* http://www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=bauer&s=Search Germany Surname Map (Distribution)
* https://www.dastelefonbuch.de/ German Phone Book
Ways to find your village/location
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Germany List of Districts in Germany
* German States Map https://www.germanydestinattions.com/german-states-map/
* Meyersgaz.org Meyers Gazetteer
* http://kartenmeister.com/ You place the German locality name in the search engine and it will tell you the name it is today in Poland.
* Quellensuche: You place the German locality name in the search engine and it will tell you the name it is today in Poland plus give you places where to find the records for your town.
* Historic Address Books
* Kreis Map
. Distance Calculator and Calculate the midpoint between two villages or cities
On this site you ca calculate the distance between two places around the world . This is helpful because families moved and you need to find the children etc of you ancestor.
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Civil and Church Records (birth, marriage and death records)
* Familysearch.org
* Germany Genealogical Sources on the Net
* Ancestry.com
* Archion https://www.archion.de/en/ Digitalized Lutheran church records in Europe
* Matricula http://data.matricula-online.eu/en/ Digitalized Catholic church records in Europe
* Online Heritage books http://www.online-ofb.de/ (ortsippenbuchs)
* Kirchengemein de lexicon: Historical Lexikon Niedersachsen Germany including Hanover. It includes history, maps and pictures of the churches
* Landesarchive Baden Wuerttemberghttps://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand-12390
* Digitized Church records and indexes Bavaria State Library https://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/personen
Passenger Lists (Immigration and Emigration)
* One-Step Webpages by Stephen Morse https://stevemorse.org/
* Emigration from Southwestern Germany
* Landesarchive Baden Wuerttemberg www.auswanderer-bw.de Digitalized auswandererbuchs
* Lippe Auswanderer lists www.lippe-auswanderer.de Lippe is a Kreis (county) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
* Emigrants from Southwestern Germany https://www.leo-bw.de/ more than 300,000 emigration entries. These are summarized in approx. 4,200 lists according to the places of origin of the emigrants (plus more)
Newspapers (Digitalized)
* ZEFYS Zeitungs Informations System
. http://familienanzeigen.genealogy.net/ Newspapers with Personal Announcements – where you can find personal announcements from different newspapers from all over Germany. Birth, marriage, death etc.
Occupations
* European Roots Genealogy: List of Old German Professions. This is a good resource showing many variations.
Societies and Libraries
* Verein fuer Computer genealogie: Metasearch will send requests to all databases simultaneously on this web site which includes cemetery information in Germany, addressbuchs, and much more
* Feefhs Federation of Eastern European Family History Society
* Immigrant Genealogical Society (IGS)
* International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP)
* Newsletter - March 2020
* Newsletter - July 2020
* Newsletter - December 2020
* Newsletter - Jan-Feb 2021
* Newsletters March - April 2021
Newsletters May -June 2021 https://iggp.org/.../Newsletters
/2021-MAY-JUNE_FINAL.pdf
Newsletter - https://iggp.org/upload/files/Newsletters/2021-JULY-AUGUST_FINAL.pdf July August 2021
Portal: Clubs All the Genealogical Societies in Germany
* AROLSEN ARCHIVES NOW ONLINEThis collection includes information on 21 million people who were displaced, persecuted and murdered by the Nazis. The new uploads include data on the deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti from the former German Empire, Austria, Bohemia and Moravia. https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/help/
* 500,000 digital family history books https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/?et_cid=1761064&et_rid=113611315&linkid=CTA&cid=em-brc-9958 Access nearly 500,000 digital family history books and periodicals without ever leaving home. Search by family name, locality, and more, and discover your family story.
Dagv- Research help available
wiki.de.genealogy.net/Deutsche_Arbeitsgemeinschaft_genealogischer_Verb%C3%A4nde_e.V._%28DAGV%29/DAGV/Guide
Translation of German Script Website
* German-English & English-German Translator 19. Having problems translating German script? Try out this German website. Type in a surname or word and click “umwandeln” It will appear in script.
* Google translate Google Chrome allows you to translate entire websites in 2 clicks of your mouse. You can use it all the time especially on Pommerschen Greif, German websites, etc. No more copy paste into Google Translate. Nearly 70% of PC/Mac users use Google Chrome. Procedure – Access the website you want to translate, right click on your mouse, and click on the Translate to English selection. It translates the page. If you go to another page, you may have to do this again. It works very well. Saves a lot of time
* Deepl.com translates articles from newsletters, websites etc.
* https://www.wordmine.info/ WordMine.info is a search engine for finding words. The searches can be done in a lots of different languages.
Important General sites
* German Roots: Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet
* Genealogy.net
* www.Compgen.de
Australia
state Library od Queensland www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections/family-history
National Archives of Australia www.NAA.gov.Au
Brazil (Germans in Brazil)
* Brazilian Germans: Immigration, culture, and more
Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and Moravia)
* Digital Archives of the Czech Republic: Czech and bohemian genealogy Archives and records
Danube Swabian websites (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania)
* https://www.danube-swabians.org/
* https://feefhs.org/regions (Banat)
Jewish Websites (German Jews )
* Jewishgen.org Includes many resources for the holocaust and all Jewish Germans
* Family Database: Jews in the German Empire
* www.rtrfoundation.org town by town inventory index to surviving documents in the archives of Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Moldova* Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center ...most valuable site for holocaust victims
* Genealogyindexer.org Place your surname in the search engine and gives you the resources available for that name.
Poland
* BaSIA: Database of archival indexing system: includes Poland and places that were annexed to Poland after WWII such as Pommern, Belarus etc. Very popular and well used site
* http://metryki.genbaza.pl/en Valuable site to find family documents from each town in Poland including the parts of Pomerania that are now in Poland* geneteka.genealodzy.pl indexes of marriages, births and deaths from the archives Poland
https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/ has a surname search engine for surnames throughout Poland including what was Pomerania, and Silesia plus more
Geneteka https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/
Lubgens https://regestry.lubgens.eu/
PomGenBase http://www.ptg.gda.pl/
Warmia project https://projektwarmia.pl/wyszukiwarka/
Pomerania, Świętwogen, FBPGG http://indeksy.net/
Geneo JZI https://jzi.org.pl/
Project Podlasie https://indeksy.projektpodlasie.pl/
BASIA http://www.basia.famula.pl/
Pomeranian websites
* Die Pommerschen Leute: "The Pomeranian People" Quarterly periodical for the descendants of the Baltic Duchy of Pommern published by the IGS Pomeranian Special Interest Group (PSIG)
* Die Pommerschen Leute Facebook Page: Contains indexes for sources of Pomeranian Genealogy found at the Immigrant Genealogical Library in Burbank California records and much more
* My Pomerania: Pomerania (Pommern) church books, civil records, and genealogy family history research. Search links for Germany, Prussia, and Poland
* PTG Pomorskie Towarzysto Genealogiczne - Pommeranian Genealogy Association: Has links to birth Baptism, Marriage and death records available for Pommern
* Pommerscher Greif e.V. https://pommerscher-greif.de/startseite.html Valuable site to find location of family documents from each town in Pomerania
. Pommerntake - www.genealoger.com/german/pommern/ger_pommern.htm
https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/ has a surname search engine for surnames throughout Poland including what was Pomerania, and Silesia plus more
PomGenBase http://www.ptg.gda.pl/
Pomerania, Świętwogen, FBPGG http://indeksy.net/
Silesia http://www.christoph-www.de/kbsilesia2.html?fbclid=IwAR1Av8fWZZzz2U5G1twQOiCMmTlu3ZrQ3uuAM5cn81hzVd9YVxt-RbnAw-E
Russia (Germans in Russia)
* Germans from Russia in America: A fantastic site showing where the German from Russia immigrated to in the US plus what parts of Russia they came from and when
Free Research
* from Westphalian
* Free queries if your ancestors are from Baden Wurttemberg and BavariaFree queries can be published in a quarterly publication Friedrich publishes as space permits. Queries can be sent to him at erootrot@usa.net. Submitter should include name, address, and e-mail address. Also see his web page http://www.anthonj.de/genealogen/wollmershaeuser/e/index.html
Best regards.
Friedrich Wollmershaeuser
Friedrich has been a full time genealogist in South western Germany. He has extensive databases with lists of inhabitants from the 18th century and emigrant names. His main focus are archival documents from pre - church period including determination of the place of origin of emigrants, research on Jews etc. He has spoken to the Immigrant Genealogical Society members many years ago, Very knowledgeable. He does charge for personal research but queries are free . His address is
Genealogical research
Herrengasse 8-10
D89610 Oberduschingen Germany
Obituaries
* OBITUARIES (Traueranzeigen) give the name of the deceased, death, and burial information, sometimes birth date and place, and names of relatives [not always]. http://familienanzeigen.genealogy.net/.
* In the Catholic tradition there are also funeral cards http://www.familienanzeigen.org/totenzettel.php?PID=551
German from Russia and Eastern Europe Settlements Locations with excellent maps etc.
