Anglo-German Family History

Anglo German Family History Society 10/04/2021

Developments in German-Jewish Genealogy Over the Last Few Years

Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 10 April 2021

New JewishGen Homepage www.jewishgen.org • Mobile-responsive • Intuitive design • A platform that many people are familiar with • Easier searching • Easier locating ancestral communities • Exploring life in your ancestral communities • Joining discussion groups • Volunteering • Donating

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The Unified Search – Everything!

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GerSIG is now the German Research Division

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JewishGen’s German Research Division

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www.facebook.com/groups/GerSIGGermanJewishGenealogy

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More than GerSIG https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ • Alemannia Judaica • www.alemannia-judaica.de • Central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany • https://zentralarchiv-juden.de/ • Jewish Places • www.jewish-places.de • Arolsen Archives • https://arolsen-archives.org/ • Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum • Train of Commemoration • www.zug-der- • www.xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de erinnerung.eu/kinder.html

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10 must knows when starting German genealogy

• Always look at Church records • There was no national census in Germany in C18th or C19th • If your surname has an ae oe or ue it might have had an umlaut • Get a useful word list for German words • Get a useful word list for Latin ones words • Be flexible on spelling • Be more specific than just Prussia • Graves are re-cycled every 20-30 years • Lots of towns have the same name, be careful to research in the right one • Not everything is online, use maps, books and gazetteers too

• https://sktranslations.com/10must-knowsgermangenealogy

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Portal Datenbanken – Databases & Projects http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:Datenbanken • Adressbücher • Digitale Bibliothek • Grabsteine • Familienanzeigen • Literatur • Historische Fotostudios • Ortsfamilienbücher • Projektdatenbanken (DES) • Totenzettel • GEDBAS • Verlustlisten Deutschland 1. WK • GOV • Verlustlisten Österreich 1. WK

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Ortsfamilienbücher - Local family books

• All over Germany, local family books (OFB) appear in all forms: printed, as a book on demand, on CD, as a PDF file, as a database, by associations and, last but not least, as an online local family book by CompGen • Usually based on church registers • Specific websites exist for Christian records in Germany e.g. Matricula. • Read more on FamilySearch research wiki: • https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Ger many_Genealogy • See also Genwiki & Archion

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Historic photo studios of Germany (FOTOSTUDIOS UND FOTOGRAFEN)

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Fotostudio

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Verlustlisten – Casualty Lists from WW1 • http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search?lang=en • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Verlustlisten_%C3%96sterreich-Ungarns_1914- 1919 • Germany • Austro-Hungary

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Germany Military Killed in Action 1939-1948 www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61641

• http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe- verlustlisten/search?lang=en

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Want Pre-war addresses in Germany? – Use Addressbooks • On University websites • http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/titleinfo/8407116 • On genealogy Indexer - http://genealogyindexer.org • On Genealogie.netz http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/?lang=en • Search here: http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net • See also https://ahnen-forscher.com • Some on Genealogy Indexer - http://genealogyindexer.org • List of all online address books - https://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/addressbooks/all • Many digitised address books online on Genwiki.

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Comp Gen on You Tube www.youtube.com/channel/UCPKKtb0N_iJftmNnJCClV0A

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Fold 3 WW2 records Germans who died

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Thomas MacEntee’s top 10 German Resources https://genealogybargains.s3.amazonaws.com/Top+10+Germa n+Genealogy+Resources.pdf • See also other free info: • https://genealogybargains.com/f ree-genealogy-cheat-sheets/

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Ancestry German Collections • https://www.ancestry.com/search/places/europe/germany

• Go to Card Catalog • Select Europe then Germany • See 1970 different collections • You can drill down further, by: • Record category • Date • Location (Lande)

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New Databases on Ancestry.com (not on .co.uk) • Europe Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees 1939 to 1947 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61758 – from Arolsen Archive • Jewish Records – Holocaust www.ancestry.com/search/categories/jewishholocaust • Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime, 1935-1944 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2027 • Poland, German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp, 1940-1945 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6217 • Italy, German Jews Deported to Auschwitz, 1943-1944 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60815

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New Berlin records at Ancestry • Births 1874- 1909, marriages 1874- 1936, deaths 1874-1955. • Births: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5753 • Marriages: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2957 • Deaths: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2958

• To 1948 only Standesamt I, From 1949 Standesamt 1 E and Standesaamt 1 W • For 1948 death certs in 3 groups: • Standesamt I in Berlin (Certs 1-19000) up to 29.9.1948 • Standesamt I in Berlin-E (Certs 19001-24116) 25.9.1948 – 31.12.1948 • Standesamt I in Berlin-W (Certs 25001-25062) 25.11.1948-31.12.1948) • From 1949 E & W used their own numbering systems.

• Also Deaths of German Citizens Abroad, Registers - Berlin Standesamt 1 • 1939-1955 www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61888

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Records and Family Search Germany Page Country Images Germany 85,357,860 • 85,357,860 records & images (growing!) Mexico 63,530,408 • www.familysearch.org/search/collectio Sweden 45,910,699 n/location/1927074?region=Germany Netherlands 18,018,230 France 12,010,885 • See also the FamilySearch Research Wiki England 9,948,263 Ireland 7,868,337 Italy 7,541,275 United Kingdom 3,264,935 Australia 1,618,183 Brazil 1,591,900 Russia 1,032,510 South Africa 1,029,108 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 22

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Germany Online Genealogy Records in FamilySearch Research Wiki www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Germany_Online_Genealogy_Records

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Germany Resources on MyHeritage.com • Growing area • MyHeritage are scouring Germany for new collections. • Keep watching for announcements of new data coming soon!

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MyHeritage Additions

• German Minority Census, 1939 www.myheritage.com/research/collection- 10901/german-minority-census-1939 • 410,919 records (See also Tracing the Past)

• Auschwitz Death Certificates, 1941-1943 - 65,280 records • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10460/auschwitz-death- certificates-1941-1943

• Germany records • www.myheritage.com/research/category-Germany/germany-genealogy- vital-records

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MyHeritage Added Two More Record Collections from Hessen, Germany • Hessen Birth Index (1874–1911) & Hessen Marriage Index (1849–1931). • The collections contain 8.5 million historical records. • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10816/germany-hesse-birth- index-1874-1911 • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10817/germany-hesse- marriage-index-1849-1931 • Searching these indexes is free but a subscription to MyHeritage data is needed to view the full records, save them to your family tree, and fully access Record Matches.

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MyHeritage Resources

• Germany Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 - 737,505 records www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10924/germany-bremen-emigration-lists- 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 - 44,312 records Index cards, arranged alphabetically by place of last residence and then by surname, of German emigrants, based upon the Bremen Passenger Lists. Includes marital status, occupation, ship name, place of last residence, and destination. www.myheritage.com/research/collection-30240/germany-bremen-passenger- departure-lists-1904-1914 Germany, Emigrants from Southwestern Germany, 1736-1963 - 285,158 records first and last name, birth date, date and county of emigration, and first and last name of a relative. The following information may also be viewable: title, alternate name, former residence, district, address, marital status, religion, occupation, birth name, destination, and additional information on the family of the individual. www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10749/germany-emigrants-from- southwestern-germany-1736-1963

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My Heritage NRW Death Records Collection

• MyHeritage announced an exclusive historical records collection from Germany, the North Rhine Westphalia Death Index 1870-1940. • The collection includes 2,450,551 records along with scanned images of the original documents. • The images have been fully indexed by MyHeritage for the first time, making the information more accessible and readily • Search is free searchable than ever before. • Viewing & downloading • These records are available only on MyHeritage, and are an invaluable resource requires a subscription for anyone researching their German roots.

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Findmypast add 114 million European records • International Records Update – Germany Over 57 German million births, baptisms, marriages and burials are now available to search and explore on Findmypast. Consisting of three new indexes covering the years 1558 to 1958, these new additions will generate hints against your Findmypast family tree.

• The new German collections now available on Findmypast include: Germany Birth and Baptism Index 1558-1898 Germany Death and Burial Index 1582-1958 Germany Marriage Index 1558-1929

• https://blog.findmypast.com.au/europe-2637109963.html

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www.familienbuch-euregio.de • the border triangle Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. • we have documented the relationships of 610,000 people so far. • Photo gallery • Document collection • Themed articles • Historical lists • PLUS: Links to NRW Death Records Online! Hans Selbach’s Portal is also useful to access the NRW Death Certificates:

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Links Collection Roland Society of Dortmund

• https://tng.rolandgen.de/documents /RzD%20%282020%29%2C%20Links ammlung%20des%20RzD.pdf

• 76 pages • Free to download • kept up to date!

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The 12 Best German Genealogy Websites www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/german-genealogy-websites

• Archion – church records • Kartenmeister - • Matricula – church records www.kartenmeister.com • FamilySearch • CompGen - www.compgen.de • Ancestry £ • GenTeam - www.genteam.at • MyHeritage £ • DWB - http://dwb.uni-trier.de/de • Meyers Gazetteer - • GeoGen Surname Mapper www.meyersgaz.org http://legacy.stoepel.net/en • Das Telefonbuch - www.dastelefonbuch.de

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Meyers Gazetteer Online www.meyersgaz.org • A wonderful print finding aid to German geographical information. • Available online in digital format • Searchable and much easier to use than the print version especially for those whose German language skills are weak. • Modern script version of Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-lexikon des deutschen Reichs (commonly known simply as Meyers or Meyer’s Gazetteer of the German Empire). • Explains the text and various abbreviations in the town entry that are found in the original printed version of Meyers, and pin-points the location of the town on both historic and modern maps, indicates parishes to which residents of the town would have belonged, and notes the distance from the town to all parishes within a 20- miles radius. • This database also allows users to search for a town using wildcards. This is especially useful when the exact spelling of a town is not known. If you have a common town name such as Mülheim, you can filter the search results by province.

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www.Kartenmeister.com

• Kartenmeister is a database for towns which are found east of the Oder and Neisse rivers in the former German Empire provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, and Silesia. • This area is now part of modern Poland. The database allows users to search for towns using either their German or Polish name. Using Gross Gardienen as an example town, we learn that the Polish name for the town is now Gardyny and is located in the Warminsko- Mazurskie province. • Like MeyersGaz.org, collaboration between users is encouraged. Individuals can enter their email address into a mailing list according to the town they are interested in and specify surnames they are researching in that town.

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Rademacher - verwaltungsgeschichte.de

• For many years, the late Michael Rademacher's site, verwaltungsgeschichte.de, has provided excellent historical gazetteer information for the former German Reich. Michael's family kept this popular site up for years, but now it's gone blank.

Nothing in cyberspace is ever really lost. See Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20180509191952/http://www.verwaltu ngsgeschichte.de/

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www.namenforschung.net/dfd/woerterbuch/liste 42172 name articles so far

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Common German Last Names & Their Meanings • Occupational surnames ending in –mann, -er, -hauer – macher • Descriptive – size colour shape etc • Geographical – place names • Most common non-Jewish surnames in Germany are: Becker, Hoffmann, Klein, Meyer, Mueller, Schneider, Schulz, Wagner, Wolf. • www.economist.com/united-states/2015/02/05/the-silent-minority • https://blog.genealogybank.com/common-german-last-names-their- meanings.html

• See also Lars Menk’s book • for full German Jewish surnames essay. • https://www.avotaynu.com/books/Menk.htm

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times Volumes 1-4 Edited by Michael A Meyer. • A comprehensive historical survey • Volume 1: Tradition and of the Jewish presence in Central Enlightenment, 1600-1780. Europe from the seventeenth • Volume 2: Emancipation and century to the Holocaust, German- Acculturation: 1780-1871. Jewish History in Modern Times is a four-volume collective project by • Volume 3: Integration in Dispute: a team of leading scholars, offering 1871-1918. a vivid portrait of Jewish History. • Volume 4: Renewal and • The series is sponsored by the Leo Destruction: 1918-1945 Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of • Published by Columbia University advancing scholarship on the Jews Press 1996, 97 & 98. in German-speaking lands.

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Stolperstein App https://stolpersteine-guide.de

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Arolsen Archive https://arolsen-archives.org

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Arolsen ctd. https://arolsen-archives.org

• Free to search • Please apply by email if you don’t discover anything online. • UK copy @ Wiener Holocaust Library • Israeli copy @ Yad Vashem • US copy @ USHMM, in DC. • Online digitisation of Arolsen records is now complete according to WDYTYA mag current issue July 2020. • https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/interactive- archive/everynamecounts • Appeal for people to take part in the online crowdsourcing project “Every Name Counts” where volunteers enter names found on documents into the online archive to ensure that they will never be forgotten.

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Nazi Euthanasia patient records in German Federal Archives • about 30,000 medical records of victims of Nazi "euthanasia" and is accessible through a database that contains, among other things, names, dates of birth and places of incarceration for the victims of the killings. This development information has now also been provided online by the Bundesarchiv. • www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Content/Pressem itteilungen/nennung-opfernamen- euthanasie.html

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Deutsches Tagebucharchiv - www.tagebucharchiv.de • The German Diary Archive (DTA), located in the old town hall of Emmendingen, sees itself as the storage place for such testimonies from the German-speaking area.

• Unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters from everyone are collected, archived, professionally stored here and made available to both science and the general public.

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www.ajrmystory.org.uk • 19 stories/books featured online. • Download or view online. • Project tells the life stories of Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors through the production of individual life story books to be kept as treasured memories and tools for reminiscence and to raise awareness about the Holocaust and Nazi oppression. • More to follow, 35 completed!

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AJR Refugee Internment Microsite www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/refugee-internment

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Symbols, Signs & Translation • http://wiki- • If I Can You Can Decipher en.genealogy.net/Symbols_and_ Germanic Records Signs • by Edna M Bentz. • ISBN-13 : 978-0961542009. • * • Highly Recommended. • oo or ꚙ • † or 

• 110 Births • 80 Marriages • 30 Deaths

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Online German Script Translators and Resources

• Brigham Young University: The German Script Tutorial • FamilySearch Wiki: Germany Handwriting • Genealoger: German Genealogy—Language, Handwriting, and Script • My Ancestors and Me: Helps for Translating That Old German Handwriting • Omniglot: German • Suetterlin Schrift: German handwriting (For fun, you can see how your name looks written in Suetterlin!) • German Alphabet Chart - www.familytreemagazine.com/wp- content/uploads/2017/08/germanic-alpha-chart.pdf

• Source: www.familytreemagazine.com

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https://script.byu.edu/Pages/German/en/welcome.aspx

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Lots of new teach yourself to read old script websites, see: https://youtu.be/nyvu7vkhDuM & https://aktenkunde.hypotheses.org/1586#more-1586

Digitale Schriftkunde - https://www.gda.bayern.de/DigitaleSchriftkunde/index.html Help from Hessen Archive - https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/lesehilfen

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Fraktur Font - https://sggs.us/fileDownload.php?cid=10&sid=1 • ... And the website has lots of other interesting resources too! • Research Tips • Links • Files to download • https://sggs.us/upload/SGGS_Ed ucational_Publications/Germany GenWeb- brochure_1454378418.pdf

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9 Top German Translation Websites

• Wordmine.info • Kurrent Wikipedia Page • Abkuerzungen.de • Online German Dictionaries: LEO, Online Dictionary by Langescheidt & dict.cc • Linguee.com: • Woerterbuchnetz: • Der Familienstammbaum • Street Search Engine • Fonts2U

• https://lisalouisecooke.com/2017/09/translating-german-genealogy-records-9-top- german-translation-websites/

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Transkribus site - learning to read old handwriting https://transkribus.eu/r/learn/

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German Translation Websites

• https://lisalouisecooke.com/2017/09/27/translating-german- genealogy-records-9-top-german-translation-websites • Links to 9 websites that may be useful inc. • http://abkuerzungen.de – abbreviations • www.der-familienstammbaum.de/ahnenforschung/alte-berufe - link to online listing of old occupations • https://lisalouisecooke.com

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Suetterlinstube Dresden www.suetterlinstube-dresden.de

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Tips & Tricks

• Archives in Germany say, please don’t use Google translate, we would rather you wrote to us in English.

• Source: Trace Your German Roots Online by James M Beidler. • www.familytreemagazine.com/store/resear ch-your-family-heritage/german- genealogy/trace-your-german-roots-online

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Germany & Austria Historical Postcards 1893-1963 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/postcardsde • Also collections for: Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, UK & USA

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Old German Postcards - www.heimatsammlung.de

• See also lots of other websites like e-bay !

• Towns & Cities • Architecture • Synagogues • People • Old photos generally • Transport • Military • Etc.

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86 German Language Genealogy Blogs http://v2.dergenealoge.de/deutsche-genealogie-blogs

Timo Krake’s Podcast in German http://v2.dergenealoge.de/podcast

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Jim Beidler on German Genealogy Groups www.familytreemagazine.com/heritage/german/g erman-genealogy-groups

• Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogischer Verein • https://iggpartner.org • https://berufsgenealogie.net/english/start.html • www.compgen.de • www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/news- blogs/genealogy-industry/genealogy- societies/german-genealogy-groups

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Genealogy Indexer

• http://genealogyindexer.org/archive/72 • Germany Address and Business Directories • Search 1,852,000 pages of 3,240 historical directories (business, address, telephone, etc., mostly from Central and Eastern Europe), 159,000 pages of 365 yizkor books (memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust), 32,000 pages of military lists (officers, casualties, etc., mostly from the Russian Empire and Poland), 46,000 pages of community and personal histories, and 24,000 pages of Polish secondary school annual reports and other school sources. • New genealogy sources are added weekly.

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1877 German English Dictionary • A Compendious German and English Dictionary • With Notation of Correspondences and Brief Etymologies • By William Dwight Whitney, August Hjalmar Edgren • www.google.com/books/edition/A_Com pendious_German_and_English_Diction /9TtAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

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Old German Professions http://sites.rootsweb.com/~romban/misc/germanjobs.html

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German Wedding Traditions and Customs

• https://blog.genealogybank.com /german-wedding-traditions- and-customs.html • Some similarities to Jewish wedding customs • May be worth reading as background knowledge

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French Revolutionary Calendar • www.lzkv.de/frk/frk.html • www.lzkv.de/frk/bilder/frk1-14.pdf

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Intelligenzblätter online • An Official Journal: Gnädigst privilegirtes Bönnisches Intelligenz-Blatt, 1772 - 1792 • Court dates https://zeitpunkt.nrw/ulbbn/periodical/titleinfo/2560190 • Tenders Duisburger Intelligenz-Zettel, 1739?1767 • Bankruptcies & http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-11143 foreclosures

Lippische Intelligenzblätter, 1767?1808 • Lists of foreigners https://digitale-sammlungen.llb-detmold.de/llb/periodical/structure/123264 staying in hotels • Business and private Fürstlich-Lippisches Intelligenzblatt, 1809?1842 (small) advertisements https://digitale-sammlungen.llb-detmold.de/llb/periodical/structure/197475 • Rentals, sales & family advertisements: Münsterisches Intelligenzblatt, 1763?1849 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/um/periodical/titleinfo/1488242 • birth, marriage & death announcements Paderbornsches Intelligenzblatt, 1774?1849 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/titleinfo/146639

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Amtsblätter der preußischen Bezirksregierungen https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Amtsbl%C3%A4tter_ der_preu%C3%9Fischen_Bezirksregierungen

Aachen Gumbinnen Liegnitz Posen Arnsberg Hannover Magdeburg Potsdam und Berlin Kassel Marienwerder Berlin Breslau Kleve Merseburg Reichenbach Bromberg Koblenz Minden Schleswig Danzig Köln Münster Schneidemühl Düsseldorf Königsberg Oppeln Sigmaringen Erfurt Köslin Osnabrück Stettin Frankfurt an der Kurmark Pommern Stralsund Oder Trier Wiesbaden

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German Newspaper Research • Germany doesn’t have large subscription-based websites for accessing newspapers for genealogical research. • Thousands of digitized German newspapers are available online. • Many are free to access and use. • Some published outside Germany (albeit in German) • BUT – take care with copyright if publishing findings! • E.g. digitised historic newspapers from Bavaria State Library • https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de • https://bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de

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Historic German Newspapers

• Compact Memory – http://sammlungen.ub.uni- frankfurt.de/cm/nav/index/title/ • DNB - www.dnb.de/DE/DEA/Kataloge/Periodika/periodika_node.html

• Family Search - www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Germany_Newspapers • Harold B Lee Library - https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Historic_German_Newspapers _and_Journals_Online • Google newspapers - https://news.google.com/newspapers

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Bavarian Jewish Newspapers

• https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de • The newspaper portal offers access to digitized historical newspapers of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. • More digitized newspapers will be added

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NRW Newspapers Portal - https://zeitpunkt.nrw

• Discover historical newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia! • Funded by the federal state of NRW, the project aims at digitizing local newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia from the period of 1801- 1945. • This portal presents the digitized newspapers and will be expanded continuously.

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1700-2021 Jewish Life in Germany https://2021jlid.de • Activities of MiQua. Jewish Museum in Archaeological Quarter of Koeln (and yes, this is where they found the Mikvah!) • Year long national festival celebrating the diversity of Jewish life in Germany. • Stamps, Tram, Archaeology, History, Culture • www.lwl-kulturstiftung.de • https://miqua.lvr.de/de/presse/presse.html • https://miqua.blog • https://synagoge-roedingen.lvr.de

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The German Genealogy Facebook Group (not Jewish!) www.facebook.com/groups/GermanGenealogy • The group, classified as a “closed group” that users can ask to be accepted in, is a typical moderated social media thread. Those approved for the group can post relating to German genealogy— sometimes including historical photos and other times “just for fun” items they’ve found in their research. • The group, boasting more than 15,000 members, describes itself as a forum for “networking with those conducting German genealogical research, in order to provide help and resources to others researching German genealogy.”

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Weimar Studies Network - https://weimarstudies.wordpress.com/resources/online-periodicals

• An international platform for researchers and academics working on the history of the Weimar Republic. • Offers information on recent publications, up-coming events and ongoing research projects on the politics, culture and society of the interwar years in Germany. • WSN is open to anybody with an interest in the history of Weimar Germany • Website has access to: • Research on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic • Digitized Periodicals, Newspapers, Magazines, Journals

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International German Genealogy Partnership

• Virtual Conference from 17 July to 24 July 2021 • www.iggp2021.org/speakers • Blog https://iggc.info • Not Jewish Genealogy • (1 in 7 US Citizens has German Ancestry!)

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Research Strategies to Find your Ancestral Location in Germany • Learn about research in your specific area on Familysearch Wiki • When searching for a hometown, consider social network (chain migration) and DNA for complex challenges • Use maps to understand location and geography of your ancestral village • Investigate German language genealogy websites for your specific area • Check if there is an local community history available • For civil registration (after 1874) search Ancestry’s collection and Polish archives • Consider searching archives for other types of records, such as court, tax, and estate records. Try search word combinations such as [surname] [village name] or [occupation]. These records are rarely online but you may be able to order them.

How to find resources for a place:

• After checking FamilySearch: • This takes you to the locality • JewishGen - www.jewishgen.org page which presents all JewishGen resources on a single • Central green lozenge - page. (Databases) • All JewishGen resources on one • Town Finder page for your location: The • Type in place name community page. • Select your place - if it had a significant Jewish community mouse onto turning

e.g. Records in Leipzig or an Approach to finding records for a new place (for you) in Germany • www.xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/k-l/1177- leipzig-sachsen • www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1817680 • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Leipzig • https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/leipzig • www.leipzig.de/wirtschaft-und-wissenschaft/bibliotheken-und- archive/stadtarchiv/ • www.leipzig.de/wirtschaft-und-wissenschaft/bibliotheken-und- archive/stadtarchiv/archivbestaende-und-findmittel • www.facebook.com/stadtarchivleipzig • http://bibliotheken-leipzig.de/index.php/de/alphabetische-suche/s/148- stadtarchiv-leipzig-bibliothek • www.familysearch.org Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 10/04/2021 77

Bavaria • https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de • Digital Newspapers Archive for Bavaria

• https://bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de • Books about Bavaria

• www.digitale-sammlungen.de • Digital collections of the Bavarian State Library

• http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:Bavaria • Bavaria Portal

Munich - www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/Stadtarchiv/Juedi sches-Muenchen/Gedenkbuch.html

• Jewish museum • www.juedisches- museum- muenchen.de/en.html • www.jewishvirtuallibrary.o rg/munich • Historic community • www.xn--jdische- gemeinden- 22b.de/index.php/gemein den/m-o/1356- muenchen-bayern

Berlin Phone Books 1881-1902 now online! • www.compgen.de/2020/07/berliner- telefonbuecher-von-1881-bis-1902-online/ • There are also numerous Berlin address books and directories on the ZLB website. • All known address books for Berlin are available • 1801 to 1836 have already been copied and made searchable in the address book database. • BERLINER ADRESS-, TELEFON- UND BRANCHENBÜCHER 1707 – 1991/1992 • HTTPS://DIGITAL.ZLB.DE/VIEWER/ CMS/155

Hessen Archives Family History Guide

• https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/sites/landesarchiv.hessen.de/files/content -downloads/HLA%20Handreichung%20f%C3%BCr%20Genealogen.pdf • 28 page booklet on family history research in Hessen Archives

• Page 10 – Jewish records!!

• Also Juden in NordHessen • http://judeninnordhessen.tk • Hans-Peter Klein und Hans Pettelkau

Düsseldorf Records now coming online! www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/service/ahnen/personenstandsregister.html Standesamt Geburten Heiraten Sterben

Düsseldorf-Mitte (später Düsseldorf-I) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 -1989

Düsseldorf-Nord 1904 -1909 1904 -1939 1904 -1973

Düsseldorf-Ost 1908 -1909 1908 -1939 1908 –1973

Düsseldorf-Oberkassel (Heerdt) 1798 -1909 1798 -1939 1798 –1969

Düsseldorf-Gerresheim (Stadt/Land/Ludenberg) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 –1969

Düsseldorf-Eller 1862 -1909 1862 -1939 1862 –1969

Düsseldorf-Benrath (ab 1974 Düsseldorf-II) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 –1981

Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth (Stadt/Land) 1810 -1909 1810 -1939 1810 –1968

Düsseldorf-Rath 1899 -1909 1899 -1939 1899 -1969

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NRW

https://www.archive.nrw.de/sites/def ault/files/media/files/LAV-Brosch- Genealogie-2016-DRUCK.pdf

New NRW Website

• One consolidated website • “Archives in North Rhine • Split by Rheinland and Westfalen- Westphalia” is a portal that Lippe provides access to the vast • Duisburg, Detmold & Muenster all archive landscape in this federal accessible here state, covering all archive areas and institutions: • Link to family history research page • Over 475 facilities • www.archive.nrw.de/landesarchiv- nrw/geschichte- • Over 6,500 retrievable resources erfahren/familienforscher/familienf • Over 3 million searchable items orschung-digital • Over 180.000 digital copies of • Website also available in English! archived material

Other NRW Jewish Records Online

• Project JeWeL-Juden in • Also on MyHeritage Westfalen und Lippe P2, P5 & • www.myheritage.de/research/co P8. llection-10864/deutschland- • http://wiki- nordrhein-westfalen- de.genealogy.net/Juden- sterberegister-1874-1938 _und_Dissidentenregister_in_W estfalen_und_Lippe • Now online & searchable, also via MyHeritage

Coming up next...

• Marriage registers then eventually the birth registers for P3, P6 and P9. • Marriage registers are not accessible in person because they are currently being digitized by the archives in partnership with FamilySearch. • First to be placed online are the last records of P6 deaths then P3 deaths.

Digital access to the South Baden Standesamt books: Cooperation project of FamilySearch and the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg • www.landesarchiv-bw.de/web/51067 • Ongoing Digitisation & Indexing project • Further records to go online soon.

BA Wu Archive New Reading Room • Catalogue of holdings now online: www2.landesarchiv-bw.de • The Archive was founded in 2012 • Records created prior to 1900 are freely accessible to the public. • The records are mainly Baden and Hohenzollern land files. • The Württemberg property books, mortgage books, and land purchase books are largely still held in local municipal archives, but the finding aids of the municipal archives have been integrated into the online catalogue. • The existing documents are to be digitalized over time.

Archion - www.archion.de/en

• BaWu Jewish records are online (see J386) • Latest 700 or so books online for Wuerttemberg research www.archion.de/de/news/newsletter/forschungsbeschleuniger- familienregister • Some Jewish records available via Archion too!

Deutsche Zentralstelle für Genealogie beim Sächsischen Staatsarchiv in Leipzig • www.staatsarchiv.sachsen.de/index. html • Started in 1923 in Dresden, since 1967 in Leipzig • Territorial focus: Central Germany (approx. 40 %), North, East, West & South Germany each 15 % • Lots of records for Saxony and other places too • Great website!

Alsace Lorraine Elsaß-Lothringen Resources

• http://archives.bas-rhin.fr

• www.familysearch.org/blog/en/finding -your-french-ancestry • This is a very good beginners article and links to lots of useful sources too!

Alsace-Lorraine Research • French Genealogy Blog - http://french-genealogy.typepad.com • Haut-Rhin Archives - www.archives.haut-rhin.fr • Bas-Rhin Archives Research Guide – http://archives.bas-rhin.fr/rechercher/aide-a-recherche • Atelier de Généalogie de l'Arrondissement de Wissembourg et Environs - http://agawe-genealogie.fr/index.html • Généalogie d'Alsace - http://recherches.eu • Genealogy & History Lorraine - www.auburtin.fr/blog/index.php • Gallica - http://gallica.bnf.fr • Le Blog généalogique de L'Est Républicain – http://er-genealogie.blogspot.co.uk

German Archives Portal - www.archivportal-d.de • 22622 Standesaemt – yes really! • Over 200 archives

Search • By State • By type of archive • By place name (A-Z)

www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de Bremen Emigration Database

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Bremer Passagierlisten 1920 - 1939

• www.schiffslisten.de • Also available partially in English! • Unfortunately, all lists from 1875 - 1908 older than 3 years were destroyed due to lack of space in the Bremen Archives. • With the exception of 3017 passenger lists for the years 1920 - 1939 all other lists were lost in World War II. • These saved lists had been stowed away in a salt mine at Bernburg an der Saale in 1942 together with other archives for the purpose of protection, and were transferred into the custody of Moscow Archives at the end of WW II. In 1987 and 1990 those lists were given back to the Bremen Chamber of Commerce.

Hamburg Resources • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M- k016X4ovqX9mvO_nexLaMjXG3hvECgn-s661KU4RM • 3 page downloadable listing by Michael D Moritz of NY.

• Facebook - Hamburg Jewish Ancestors / Jüdische Vorfahren aus Hamburg: • www.facebook.com/groups/hamburgjewishancestors

• Hamburg Online Queries Emigration https://recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg.de/ScopeQuery5.2/detail.aspx?ID= 814282

Hamburg Addressbooks

• http://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de/subhh-adress/digbib/start State University Library of Hamburg

• www.gen-gmbh.de

JRR1 NRW Emigration Records

• From the emigration files of the administrative districts of Cologne Düsseldorf and Aachen • The Landesarchiv Duisburg has a good 63,000 names of emigrants for the period from 1814 to 1939 • this list is definitely not exhaustive. • To download the (Excel) list: • www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/rheinland/BilderKartenLogosDa teien/Kopie_von_211_22_01_Auswanderer_aus_dem_Rheinland__1 9_Jahrhundert__mit_externen_Korrekturen_2016_08_11.xls

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Rheinland-Pfalz Emigration - www.auswanderung-rlp.de/startseite.html

• Various sections and resources relating to Jewish emigration • WW2 • Timelines for emigration • USA, South America etc • www.auswanderung-rlp.de/emigration-in-der-ns-zeit/juedische-emigration.html

Emigrants from Southwestern Germany 1736 – 1963 - 285,158 new records • This is an index of emigrants leaving Southwestern Germany largely between 1736 and 1963. • Records may contain the following searchable information: first and last name, birth date, date and county of emigration, and first and last name of a relative. • The following information may also be viewable: title, alternate name, former residence, district, address, marital status, religion, occupation, birth name, destination, and additional information on the family of the individual. • Emigration from Germany occurred in a number of waves, triggered by current events such as the July Revolution of 1830, the 1848 March Revolution, the foundation of the German Reich in the 1870s, World War I, and other significant events. The majority of the records from this collection are from the mid 1750s to the early 1900s. • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10749/germany-emigrants-from- southwestern-germany-1736-1963

German naturalisations 1870 to 1933 • http://einwanderung-1870-1933.blogspot.com • http://einwanderung-1870- 1933.blogspot.com/2015/12/einburgerung-allgemein.html

• Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime, 1935-1944 • Deutschland, Index von Juden, deren deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft vom Nazi-Regime annulliert wurde, 1935-1944. • https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2027

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