German Genealogy Study Group

3. Databases and Vital Records

Updated 10 Dec 2002

GenCircles

The Global Tree consists of over 90 million ancestors submitted to GenCircles with Smartmatches (lets you see individual matches instantly.)

WORLDCONNECT

Rootsweb's online database contains 350 million ancestors submitted by genealogists. Always free to use.

Roots Surname List -- Interactive Search

Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: FamilyFinder Index

FREE CD Look-ups!

This is not a "German" site but it is great and FTM has world pedigrees too. I am assuming many of you use www.familytreemaker.com but most have not bought the CD's. Try this site for free look ups on FTM (and other) CD's after you have used the FTM site to locate the CD that interests you. I (Rich) tried it and have already have gotten some response. [Another group member says: You can even just pick the census year of an area or state CD and send off to see if your family is on that census. It is really a most useful, helpful site--whatever genealogy program you use.]

American Historical Society of Germans From Russia Surname Charts

(### Unavailable) Surname charts available either alphabetical by surname or by village.

Posen Catholic Archives

Catholic Archives Index of vital statistics of Poznan/Posen (English version)

Posen Catholic Archives

has the Catholic parishes from Poznan Archdiocese Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (also covering Mecklenburg-Schwerin & Strelitz)

Protestant Church in Germany

Listing addresses for Evangelische church archives in Germany

E-mail Lynn (lynnd@adnc.com) with corrections or comments.

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