German Genealogy
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Description of North American countries. Includes police and
regimental regulations operative during the French and Indian
wars, etc.
- Abdruck einiger wahrhafften Berichte aus Germantown in
Pensylvanien vom 17. Nov. 1738. Berlenburg, 1738. Accounts
from early settlers in Germantown.
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Saxon; in German)
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J. Kirkham, and Saskia Schier Bunting. Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Co., 2004.
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Sources. Edited by Alice Eichholz. 3rd edition. Salt Lake
City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 2004.
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Guide to Discovering Your Germanic Ancestors, How to Find and
Record Your Unique Heritage. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway
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family research.
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Lutheraner aus den Ertz-Bissthum Saltzberg (complete history
of the Lutheran emigrants driven out of the Archbishopric of
Salzburg). Leipzig, 1731. Provides some information on the
Salzburger settlers in Georgia.
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Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1967.
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Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.
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Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in the Germanic Areas of Europe.
4th edition, updated. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
2008. This volume will help you trace your German-speaking
ancestors in all German-speaking areas of Europe, not just
Germany.
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genealogy. St. Paul, MN : German Interest Group, Branch of
Minnesota Genealogical Society, ©1991.
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The Author, 1982. Write Mrs. Bentz at 13139 Old West Ave., San
Diego, CA 92129.
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historischen Hilfswissenschaften. 1802.
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Germany, 1780-1918. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1989.
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Germany. Garland, Texas: The Author, 1983. Write Mrs. Boehl
at 3925 Amy, Garland, Texas 75043. - Includes extensive
vocabularies for occupations and causes of death.
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Frye, and Patricia Lowe. Germanic Genealogy: A Guide to
Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns. St. Paul: Germanic
Genealogy Society, 1996. - One of the most extensive guides
available.
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Hard-to-Find German-Speaking Ancestors in Eastern Europe.
2nd rev. edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Clearfield Co., 1993.
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Newspapers, 1690-1820. 2 vols. 1947. Reprint, Hamden, Conn.:
Archon Books, 1962. Guide to early American newspapers and the
location of their extant issues. Available in larger libraries.
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to History & Culture. Greenwood Press, 2005. A compendium of
information on the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of
Germany.
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Rev. by Harold T. Betteridge. New York: MacMillan Publishing
Co., 1978.
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Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record. Salt Lake
City: Ancestry, 1993.
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niederdeutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; Berlin
(Germany): E. Schmidt. (Overview of Low Saxon philology; in
German)
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How to Get the Most Out of Our Family History Center. 4th
edition, Revised and expanded. Minneapolis, Family Tree Press,
1983, 1990.
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Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. (FHL book
943 H2dds; computer number 557580.)
- Deutsches
Familienarchiv (German Family Archive). - Was founded in
1952 and lists links to Ancestor lists, Family histories, very
often with historical cultural -historical relations, with
references for bibliography and sources, coat of arms and other
details. Has numerous surnames collected in articles, ancestor
tables and Ahnenlisten.
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Familenarchiv. Bände 1-50. 2. Auflage. Neustadt an der
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194+ volumes. Limburg/Lahn: C.A. Starke, 1889-
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Adelslexika, Wappenbücher. 2., um ein Namenregister verm.
Aufl. Wiesbaden: M. Sändig, 1969. (Lists works useful for German
genealogy)
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Guidebook of American Genealogy. Salt Lake City: Ancestry,
1984.
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Plautdietsch: tracing a language across the globe; Hillsboro
(USA): The Reader's Press <psdirect@southwind.net>.
(Contains an excellent introduction to the history and spread of
the language; in English)
- Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin. Verzeichnis der
Kirchenbücher im Evangelischen Zentralarchiv in Berlin. Berlin:
Das Zentralarchiv, 1985- .
- Familiengeschichtliche Bibliographie. Wiesbaden: M.
Sändig, 1969. 6 vols. (Reprint of 1928 edition) (Lists
genealogies published between 1900-1937 by family name. Vol. 5,
Heraldische Bibliographie)
- Familiengeschichtliche Quellen. Leipzig: Degener &
Co. v. 1-17, 1926/30-1991.(Index to various sources of German
family history, including vols. of Deutsches Geschlechterbuch)
- Family History Library. Research Outline: Germany.
Salt Lake City, Utah, The Library, 1994. A 52-page booklet
available through Family History Centers nationwide.
- Ferguson, Laraine, "Locating Church and Civil Registration
Records," German Genealogical Digest, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp.
202-2003, 1985.
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Immigration Lists Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of
about 5000,000 Passengers Who Came to the United States and
Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries.
1st edition. 3 vol. plus annual supplements. Detroit: Gale
Research Co., 1981.
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Bibliography, 1538-1900: Being a Guide to Published Lists of
Arrivals in the United States and Canada. Detroit: Gale
Research Corp., 1981.
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Relatives. 3rd rev. edition. Verlag Degener & Co., 1997.
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Migration Patterns. St. Paul, Minnesota: Germanic Genealogy
Society, c1997.
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heute; Beiträge zur Sprachsituation in den nördlichen
Bezirken der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik in Geschichte und
Gegenwart; Berlin (Germany): Akademie-Verlag. (History of Low
Saxon in East Germany; in German)
- Glazier, Ira A. and P. William Filby, editors. Germans to
America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports.
Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1988- [Series begins
with 1850 arrivals and is intended to continue through 1893.]
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gestern: eine Sprache in Pro und Contra; edited by Claus
Schuppenhauer, 1980; Leer (Germany): Schuster. (Controversies
surrounding pre-modern Low Saxon; in German)
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Genealogy. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990.
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Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada.
1937. Reprint, New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1967. American
newspapers and the location of their extant issues, beginning
where Brigham’s guide ends. Available in larger libraries.
- Gundlach, O. Bibliotheca Familiarium Nibilium. 2
volumes. 1897.
- Hall, Charles M. The Atlantic Bridge to Germany. 10
volumes. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers.
- Haller, Charles R. Across the Atlantic and Beyond: The
Migration of German and Swiss Immigrants to America.
Heritage Books, 1993.
- The Handy Book for Genealogists: United States of America.
10th edition. Draper, Utah: Everton Publishers, Inc., 2002.
- Hansen, Kevan. Map Guide to German Parish Registers.
Bountiful, Utah: Family Roots Publishing Co., 2004-2007.
Forty-volume series eventually covering all of Germany. Each
volume is 200 to 300 pages.
- Heintze, Albert.
Die Deutschen Familiennamen: geschichtlich, geographisch, sprachlich 1882.
- Heinzmann, Franz. Bibliographie der Ortssippenbücher in
Deutschland (Bibliography of Village Lineage Books in
Germany). Düsseldorf: Heinzmann, 1991. This work lists both
monographs and village lineages in periodicals.
- Heinzmann, Franz, and Christoph Lenhartz. Bibliographie
gedruckter Familiengeschichten 1946-1960 (Bibliography of
printed family histories, 1946-1960). Düsseldorf: F.
Heinzmann, 1990.
- Henning, Eckart. Bibliographie zur Heraldik: Schrifttum
Deutschlands und Österreichs bis 1980. Köln: Bohlau, 1984.
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Tauf-, Trau, und Totenregister sowie der Bestandsverzeichnisse
im deutschen Sprachgebiet. Neustadt/Aisch: Degener, 1991.
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Leipzig, 1913; reprint edition. Neustadt an der Aisch: Verlag
Degener & Co., 1971.
- Historical Background Affecting Genealogical Research in
Germany and Austria. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical
Society of Utah, 1977. (FHL book 929.1 G286gs ser. C no. 19;
fiche 6000035; computer number 327119.) This work emphasizes
religious minorities and emigration.
- Holborn, Hajo. A History of Modern Germany. 3
volumes. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1982. An excellent English language history of Germany for the
period 1517 to 1945.
- Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte. Berlin:
Akademie-Verlag, 1925- . (Useful source for regional histories)
- Jensen, Larry O. "Basic Principles in Resolving Naming
Practice Problems," German Genealogical Digest, Vol. 4,
No. 1, 1988, pp. 17-19.
- Jensen, Larry O. A Genealogical Handbook of German
Research. 2 Volumes. Pleasant Grove, Utah: Jensen
Publications, 1983. An introduction to German research in
general.
- Jensen, Larry O. and Norman J. Storrer. The German Empire
of 1871. Salt Lake City: Graphic Reproduction, 1975.
Description of the political units that constituted the German
Empire from 1871 to 1918.
- Jensen, Larry O. Maps of the German Empire of 1871.
Pleasant Grove, Utah: Jensen Publications, 1987.
- Johnson, Arta F., editor. Bibliography and Source
Materials for German-American Research. Vol. 1. The editor,
1982, updated 1984.
- Johnson Arta F. How to Read German Church Records Without
Knowing Much German. 1980. Available from: Palatines to
America, 611 E. Weber Rd., Columbus, OH 43211 ($5 plus $2
postage and handling)
- Jones, George F. German-American Names. 3rd edition.
Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 2006. A
treasure-trove of information about German surnames.
- Kaemmerer, M., compiler. Ortsnamenverzeichnis der
Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neisse. Leer, Ostfriesland:
Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, 1988. Index of place names of places
byeond the Oder and Neisse [the point where post World War II
Poland begins, with many formerly German communities now part of
Poland]. Place names in German and Polish.
- Kemp, Thomas Jay. International Vital Records Handbook.
3rd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995.
- Kinderling, Johann Friedrich August (1800); Geschichte
der Nieder-Sächsischen oder sogenanten Plattdeutschen Sprache
vornehmlich bis auf Luthers Zeiten, nebst einer Musterung der
vornehmsten Denkmahle dieser Mundart, entworfen von M. Joh.
Fried. August Kinderling, zweitem Prediger zu Calbe an der Saale;
Magdeburg (Germany): G. Ch. Keil. (History of Low Saxon prior to
the Reformation; in German)
- Kirkham, E. Kay. A Survey of American Church Records:
Major Denominations before 1880. Volume 1. Logan, Utah:
Everton Publishers, 1971.
- Kirkham, E. Kay. A Survey of American Church Records:
Minor Denominations. Volume 2. Logan, Utah: Everton
Publishers, 1969.
- Kuhns, Oscar. The German and Swiss Settlements of
Colonial Pennsylvania, A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania
Dutch. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co., 1900, 2004
reprint.
- Lammers, Wulf (1996); Die plattdeutsche Sprache: Ursprung,
Entwicklung, Verwandte, Prognose; Neumünster: Wacholtz
Verlag; ISBN 3-529-04507-1. (Covers the history of Low Saxon
from the Old Saxon period until the present and its outlook for
the future; with maps, tables and a bibliography; in German)
- Lancour, Harold. A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists,
1538-1825; Being a Guide to Published Lists of Early Immigrants
to North America. 3rd edition. New York: New York Public
Library, 1963.
- Law, Hugh T. How to Trace Your Ancestors to Europe.
Salt Lake City, Cottonwood Books, 1989.
- Lindow, Wolfgang, and Claus Schuppenhauer, eds. (1991);
Plattdeutsch im Buchhandel; Bremen (Germany): Institut für
niederdeutsche Sprache. (Everything currently in print in or
about Low Saxon - Invaluable and inexpensive for those wanting
to locate Low Saxon books and literature in the language itself;
in German.)
- Lindow, Wolfgang, and Claus Schuppenhauer (1994);
Niederdeutsche Sprache - Nedderdüütsch Dichten; Bremen
(Germany): Leer Schuster; ISBN 3-7963-0319-6. (A lecture in
German about Low Saxon until the present day - includes study
materials, regional dictionaries, etc., and a lecture in Low
Saxon about Low Saxon literature with examples from the
Heliand until the present. A good concise introduction to
the language; in Low Saxon and German)
- Lockwood, William B. (1978); An Informal History of the
German Language, with chapters on Dutch and Afrikaans, Frisian
and Yiddish; The Language Library; Blackwell; ISBN
0-233-96797-4. (in English)
- Lorenz. Ottokar. Lehrbuch der
gesammten wissenschaftlichen Genealogie. 1898.
- Lowery, Joan. "Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon
Abbreviations," The German Connection, January 1987, pp
9-14. The German Research Association, P.O. Box 711600, San
Diego, CA 92171-1600.
- Lowrey, Joan. "Searching for a Kreis or an Amt," The
German Connection, July 1990, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 55-56. The
German Research Association, P.O. Box 711600, San Diego, CA
92171-1600.
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Muttersprache: Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte und ihrem Wesen;
St. Peter-Ording (Germany): H. Lühr & Dircks. (General reader
about Low Saxon; in German)
- Meyer, Mary K. Meyer's Directory of Genealogical
Societies in the U.S. and Canada. 9th edition. Mount Airy,
Maryland, 1992.
- Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon des deutschen Reich.
(FHL film 496,640, 496,641; Fiche 6000001-6000029). Wright,
Raymond S. III., Meyers Orts- und Verikehrs-Lexikon des
Deutschen Reiches. Originally Published in Leipzig, 1912.
Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2000.
- Minert, Roger P. Deciphering Handwriting in German
Documents Analyzing German, Latin and French Vital Records
Written in Germany. Woods Cross, Utah: GRT Publications,
2001. - A self-help guide for reading early German documents.
- Minert, Roger P., editor. German Immigrants in American
Church Records. Volume 1: Indiana Protestant. Picton Press,
2005.
- Minert, Roger P., Kathryn Boeckel, and Caren Winters.
Germans to America and the Hamburg Passenger Lists: Coordinated
Schedules. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2005.
Index linking Germans to America passenger lists, the
Hamburg passenger lists, and the Family History Library
microfilm.
- Minert, Roger P. and Shirley J. Riemer. Researching in
Germany: A Handbook for Your Visit to the Homeland of Your
Ancestors. Sacramento, California: Lorelei Press, 2001. A
"must have" book for your genealogical research in Germany.
- Minert, Roger P. Spelling Variations in German Names:
Solving Family History Problems through Applications of German
and English Phonetics. GRT Publications, 2000. 96 pages.
ASIN: 0967842018. For fourteen historic provinces: Baden,
Braunschweig/Oldenburg/Thuringia/ Hanover, Hesse, Hesse-Nassau,
Mecklenburg, Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstin (with Bremen/Hamburg/Lübeck),
Westphalia (with Hohenzollern/Lippe/Schaumburg-Leppe/Waldeck),
and Wurttemberg.
- Müller, Friedrich. Müllers großes deutsches Ortsbuch
[Müller's large German gazetteer]. Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany:
Post- und Ortsbuchverlag Postmeister a.d. Friedrich Müller,
1958.
- Neagles, James C. and Lila Lee Neagles. Locating Your
Immigrant Ancestor: A Guide to Naturalization Records.
Logan, Utah: Everton Publishing Co., 1975.
- Newman, John J. American Naturalization Processes and
Procedures, 1790-1985. Indianapolis: Family History Section,
Indiana Historical Society, 1985.
- Nipperdey, Thomas. Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck. 1996.
- Nordmann-Stabenow, Gertrud (1980); Plattdeutsch und
Plattdänisch im Grenzland Schleswig; Husum (Germany): Husum
Druck Verlag. (About Low Saxon and Southern Jutish ("Low
Danish") in the area of the Danish-German border; in German)
- Nordmann-Stabenow, Gertrud (1994); 1000 Wörter
Plattdänisch verglichen mit Plattdeutsch, Hochdeutsch und
Reichdänisch / 1000 ord Sønderjysk sammenlignet med plattysk,
høgtysk og rigsdansk; Husum: Husum Druck; ISBN
3-88042-644-9. (1000 words compared between Low Saxon and
Southern Jutish ("Low Danish"); in Danish and German)
- O'Donnell, Krista, Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin,
editors. The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germaneness.
University of Michigan Press, 2005.
- Online
German Family Heritage Books (about 50 listings)
- Parker, J. Carlyle. Going to Salt Lake City to Do Family
History Research. 3rd. edition. Turlock, California:
Marietta Publishing Co., 1996.
- Paulun, Dirks. Platt auf deutsch: Herkunft und Bedeutung
plattdeutscher Wörter. Bruckmann, 1974. ISBN: 3765416088.
-
Portal Digitale Bibliothek. Digitized German books.
- Pott, August Friedrich. Die Personennamen Inbesondere
die Familiennamen und ihre Entstehungsarten. 1859.
- Quester, Erich [Bearbeiter]. Wegweiser für Forschungen
nach Vorfahren aus des ost deutschen und südetendeutschen
Gebieten sowie aus den deutschen Siedlungsräumen in Mittel-, Ost-
und Südosteuropa. 4th edition. Neustadt an der Aish: Verlag
Degener and Co., 1995. Classic work for former East Germany.
- Reich, Konrad (1986); Das große plattdeutsche Bilderbuch;
Hamburg (Germany): Hoffmann & Campe; ISBN 3-455-06204-0. (richly
illustrated history of Low Saxon publishing; in German)
- Reinhardt, Kurt Frank. Germany: 2000 Years. Rev.
ed. 2 vols. New York: F. Ungar, 1989. (FHL book 943 H2rk;
computer number 283736.)
- Ribbe, Wolfgang and Eckhart Henning. Taschenbusch für
Familiengeschichtsforschung. Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany:
Verlag Degener & Co., 2001. Excellent German language resource
for family history research.
- Riemer, Shirley J. The German Research Companion.
Rev. edition. Sacramento, California: Lorelei Press, 2000.
Excellent resource for German genealogy.
- Riemer, Shirley J. and Roger P. Minert. The German
Research Companion. 3rd edition. Sacramento, CA: Lorelei
Press, 2010. The title suggests this is a German research
handbook, but it focuses on American families with German
ancestry, the resources in America leading back to Germany, and
the records in Germany. The volume does not deal with
English-German, Brazilian-German, or African-German research, or
any other country that has been heavily affected by German
colonization.
- Russ, Charles, ed. (1990); The Dialects of Modern German;
London (UK): Routledge. (This comprehensive book covers all
major German dialects and includes the Low Saxon language within
"German"; in English)
- Sanders, Willy (1982); Sachsensprache, Hansesprache,
Plattdeutsch: sprachgeschichtliche Grundzüge des Niederdeutschen;
Göttingen (Germany): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (History of Low
Saxon; in German)
- Sarauw, Christian Preben Emil (1921-1924); Niederdeutsche
Forschungen; Copenhagen (Denmark): A. F. Host. (Low Saxon
studies; in German)
- Schaefer, Christina K. Guide to Naturalization Records of
the United States. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1997.
- Schenk, Trudy and Ruth Froelke. Württemburg Emigration
Index. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986-
- Schweitzer, George K. German Genealogical Research.
Knoxville, Tennessee: The Author, 1995.
- Simms, Brendan. The Struggle for Mastery in Germany,
1779-1850. 1998.
- Smith, Clifford Neal and Anna Piszczan-Czaja Smith.
Encyclopedia of German-American Genealogical Research. New
York, R.R. Bowker Co., 1976. Reprint: Baltimore, Maryland:
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2003. Remains one of the
great references.
- Smith, Juliana Szucs Smith. The Ancestry Family
Historian's Address Book: A Comprehensive List of Local, State,
and Federal Agencies and Institutions, and Ethnic and
Genealogical Organizations. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997.
- Smith, Kenneth Lee. German Church Books: Beyond the
Basics. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1989. Descriptions of
the contents of certain types of vital records, as well as some
cultural details related to vital records in Germany.
- Sommer, R. Familienforschung und Vererbungslehre.
1922.
- Stammfolgen-Verzeichnisse für das genealogische Handbuch
des Adels und das deutsche Geschlechterbuch. (Index of the
Genealogical Handbook of nobility and the German Lineage Books).
Limburg/Lahn: C.A. Starke, 1969.
- Stellmacher, Dieter (1981); Niederdeutsch: Formen und
Forschungen; Tübingen (Germany): Niemeyer; ISBN:
3-484-10415-5. (Overview of Low Saxon structure and research; in
German)
- Stellmacher, Dieter (1990); Niederdeutsche Sprache: Eine
Einführung; Bern (Switzerland): New York (USA): P. Lang.
(Introduction to the Low Saxon language, in German)
- Stockman, Robert Lee. North Germany to North America :
19th century migration. Alto, Mich. : PlattDüütsch Press,
2003. Detailed descriptions of customs, occupations, farm
equipment, methods of transportation, historical events, and
much more. Interspersed with black and white photos and
Plattdeutsch poems and sayings. Detailed accounts of how various
Midwestern states were settled.
- Stockman, Robert Lee. Platt Düütsch: A brief
history of the people and language, plus glossary and
orthography; Alto, Michigan (USA): Platt Düütsch Press
(10748 100th Street, Alto, MI 49302; tel. 616 891-8932); ISBN
0-9665502-0-X, LCCN 98-091-589; US $18.00 + US $2.00 shipping &
handling. (Introduction to the Low Saxon language with
references to the language in America, in English)
- Strassburger, R. B. & W. J. Hinke. Pennsylvania German
Pioneers. 3 volumes. Pennsylvania Historical Society, 1934.
Reprinted by Picton Press. Transcription of the ships' lists of
those who entered through the port of Philadelphia. Includes the
date of arrival, the age of any male aged 16 or over, his
companions on the ship, and his signature.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in
the Years 1763-1862. Translated by Prof. Joseph S. Height
and others. Lincoln, Nebraska: American Historical Society of
Germans from Russia, 1978.
- Suess, Jared H. Central European Genealogical Terminology.
Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 1978. Includes German, Latin,
French, Italian, and Hungarian.
- Suess, Jared H. and Petra Suess. Reading Genealogical
Records of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. 2 volumes.
Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1995. Designed to
be definitive for German research.
- Thode, Ernest J., Jr. Address Book for Germanic Genealogy.
6th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. -
Basic information for writing to Germany and doing German
research.
- Thode, Ernest J., Jr. Atlas for Germanic Genealogy.
Marietta, Ohio: Heritage House, 1982, 1988.
- Thode, Ernest J., Jr. German-English Genealogical
Dictionary. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.
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