German Resources

GERMAN RESOURCES



MAPS

feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html Maps of the Eastern and Western German Empire rreu.11net.com/Genealogy/images/maps/ A nice collection of current and historical maps of Germany and Europe. www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/ Ravenstein's Atlas des Deutschen Reichs

LANGUAGE AIDS

http://thorin.adnc.com/~lynnd/vuword.html#7 German vocabulary helpful for genealogy research www.germanscript.com/ History of German script, fonts, translation, transcription, home.t-online.de/home/hans-peter.voss/04eng.htm Sütterlin style alphabet www.mun.ca/rels/morav/pics/tutor/mscript2.html German script alphabet www.genealogy.net/gene/misc/translation.html Arthur Teschler's translation service www.genealogy.net/gene/misc/letters/ sample letters

DATABASES

http://gedbas.genealogy.net/index.jsp GEDBAS - A German language GEDCOM data base www.geneanet.com/ GeneaNet - a worldwide genealogy database network www.volksbund.de/ Vermissten und Toten Datenbank...search for those missing or dead in World War I or II

HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL LINKS

www.serve.com/shea/germusa/perspekt.htm 1848 German revolution

MISCELLANEOUS

www.dastelefonbuch.de Online German phone book www.genealogy.net/gene/misc/geoserv.html GEOserve town locator