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Civil registration commenced in 1876


ONLINE RESOURCES

Online German emigration records
http://www.germanroots.com/emigration.html
List of links. Also check Ancestry Library Edition.

Darragh Index to the Melbourne German Sick and Relief Society membership 1861-1924 : Melbourner Deutscher Krankenverein

http://gateway.slv.vic.gov.au/WebZ/Authorize?sessionid=0&next=html/public.html&bad=html/
authofail.html&style=noframe&autho=genealogy&password=genie
Includes name and date of joining, or date of nomination if unsuccessful. There may also be information about marital status on joining, occupation, date and place of birth, date of death, date of leaving, address at the time of joining, date of arrival in Victoria and on what ship.

Germans in Australia
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44356/20040907-0000/www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/slv/genealogy/german/intro.htm
Detailed survey of State Library of Victoria material about Germans in Australia, from families to individuals.

Ancestry Library Edition (only available in the library)
http://www.ancestrylibrary.com
Contains birth, death and marriage records, censuses, directories, and migration records.
  • Baden, Germany
  • Bayern, Germany
  • Brandenburg, Preußen, Germany
  • Braunschweig, Germany
  • Hannover, Preußen, Germany
  • Hessen, Germany
  • Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany
  • Hohenzollern, Preußen, Germany
  • Lippe, Germany
  • Mecklenburg, Germany
  • Oldenburg, Germany 
  • Ostpreußen, Preußen, Germany
  • Pommern, Preußen, Germany
  • Posen, Preußen, Germany
  • Preußen, Germany
  • Rheinland, Preußen, Germany
  • Sachsen, Germany
  • Sachsen, Preußen, Germany 
  • Schlesien, Preußen, Germany
  • Schleswig-Holstein, Preußen, Germany 
  • Thüringen, Germany
  • Westfalen, Preußen, Germany
  • Westpreußen, Preußen, Germany 
  • Württemberg, Germany
JewishGen - Germany
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/#Germany

Genealogy.net, the German Genealogy Network
http://www.genealogienetz.de/index_en.html
Searchable family tree database; searchable telephone directories, newspaper announcements, passenger lists, and research advice. Contact list of German family history societies. Gazetteer. Some pages in German only.

Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
http://www.sggee.org/

Odessa Digital Library
http://www.odessa3.org/
Digital library dedicated to the cultural and family history of the millions of Germans who emigrated to Russia in the 1800s, and their descendants.
 
Internet Sources of German Genealogy
http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/edatbase.htm


BOOKS

In search of your German roots: a complete guide to tracing your ancestors in the Germanic areas of Europe, 4th ed.
G 943 B333I (2001)

'Germanic Region' in The Family Tree guidebook to Europe
G 940 F21N

‘Germany’ in In search of your European roots: a complete guide to tracing your ancestors in every country in Europe, 3rd ed.
G 940 B33I (2001)

Finding your German ancestors: a beginner’s guide
G 943 H198F

German-English genealogical dictionary
G 943.003 T352G

Pomeranian genealogy, culture and history
G 943.816 ST45P

Collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
G 974.8 R878C  


CD-ROMs

Deutsches Geschlechterbuch (German Families) (1911-2003) on CD-ROM
See Information Databases menu under 'Biography'

 

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