German Genealogy Study Group

6. Other Internet Suggestions

Updated 10 Feb 1999

German Genealogy: List of Documents and FAQs
/ Verzeichnis von Dokumenten und FAQs
This index has been moved to it's own page VUdocs to save "clutter" on this one. Lot's of good documentation to send for here in either English or German.

Mailing Lists

Check if the list you are interested is on Genealogy Resources on the Internet Mailing Lists Choose "Mailing Lists", then "Geographic/Non-USA", then "Germany".

NEW GERMAN MAILING LISTS

Here is a list of new discussion lists that were created for regions being researched in Germany. Since they were only created at the beginning of 1997, there may not be much discussion on them yet.

Please note that all these lists cover the Germans. For Polish researchers, there is a list for that purpose ... GEN-POL.

New regional lists:
ALSACE-LORRAINE
BADEN-WURTTEMBERG (includes Hohenzollern)
BAVARIA
HESSEN (all kingdoms and provinces of Hesse)
GERMAN-BOHEMIAN (Bohemia/Moravia, now the Czech Republic)
GERMAN-KINGDOMS (Duchies of Thuringen, Braunschweig, Lippe, Waldeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
GER-RUS (Germans from Russia, culture and folklore)
GER-RUS2 (Germans from Russia, genealogy and family research)
NECKAR (Neckar River Valley region; state and old Kingdom of Wurttemberg)
OLDENBURG (Grand Duchy)
PRUSSIA-ROOTS (Brandenburg, Hannover, Ostpreussen, Pommern, Posen, Provinz Sachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Schlesien, Westpreussen, Lubeck, Hamburg, Bremen)
TRIER-ROOTS (Saarland, Rheinland, Westfalen, Pfalz)
BRANDENBURG (not a surname list, includes city of Berlin)
OW-PRUSSIA (East and West Prussia including City of Danzig)
HANNOVER (includes cities of Bremen and Hamburg)
POMMERN
POSEN
NORD-RHEINLAND (north of Prum-Bernkastel line)
SACHSEN-SAXONY (all kingdoms and provinces, including the Saxe principalities)
GER-SCHLESIEN (Silesia - NiederSchlesien and OberSchlesien)
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (including the part formerly under Danish rule)
WESTFALEN
THURINGEN (including the Reuss principalities)
Send questions about the lists to "W. David Samuelsen"
dsam@WASATCH.COM

There is a very nice email list, called the German-American list. It's a very low volume list, but I've found it to be quite useful. [NOTE: This list is on rootsweb now, list Owner for German-American Mlfuller@aol.com]

IMMI-GRAND is an e-mail list for researching recent (late 1800's-) immigrants to the U.S. from anywhere. It has moved from MAISER and can be subscribed by sending the message "subscribe" to: IMMI-GRAND-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual mail) or IMMI-GRAND-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode.)

Mailing List: EMIGRATION-SHIPS.

Can't find the town in modern Germany? Send e-mail to: geo@genealogy.net
with subject: _GEO_
Type in body of message the name (or beginning letters) of a German town/county and all the possible locations will be returned quickly to you with postal codes and population. There are more possibilities. Use INFO as the subject to receive a manual.

JewishGen Shtetl Seeker

Type in the name of a central European town and you will get a report of the location of all towns which "sounds-like" it. Maps showing the location are then available with a click.

E-mail Lynn with corrections or comments.

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