{"id":38133,"date":"2016-07-28T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38133"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:12:27","slug":"tracing-your-germanic-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38133","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Your Germanic Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=3185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tracing-Your-Germanic-Ancestry-cover-300pw.jpg\" alt=\"Tracing-Your-Germanic-Ancestry-cover-300pw\" width=\"300\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pleasure to announce this newest edition to the <i>Tracing Your Ancestors<\/i> series. I&#8217;ve long had an interest in German research, and have written various items on the subject in the past. This last year, I was asked by Ed Zapletal, of Moorshead Magazines, to write a booklet for their <em>Tracing Your Ancestors<\/em> series. After several stops and starts, I settled in and wrote steadily from March until June 14, when I sent the manuscript off for publication. I&#8217;d thought that I had already had much of the copy on hand, but when I began to write, I realized that very little of what I had on hand was fully up-to-date. Much has been added to German research sources and techniques in the last several years. So a lot of new information is to be found in this booklet. German ancestral research represents one of the largest areas of interest in the USA, and I&#8217;m proud to be able to make my contribution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Following Table of Contents in found in the volume:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Finding The Place Of Origin<\/b>; Locate your Germanic ancestors\u2019 home villages<\/li>\n<li><b>Genealogical \u201cHail Mary!\u201d Search<\/b>; Using German surname distribution maps<\/li>\n<li><b>German Maps &#038; Gazetteers<\/b>; Don\u2019t overlook these important resources<\/li>\n<li><b>Passenger &#038; Immigration Records<\/b>; Trace your ancestors\u2019 travels to their new homeland<\/li>\n<li><b>Online German Research<\/b>; We show you the key online resources for researching your Germanic ancestors<\/li>\n<li><b>German Parish &#038; Civil Records<\/b>; Where to locate the vital records for the birth, marriage, and death of your ancestors<\/li>\n<li><b>German Census Records<\/b>; We look at where to locate German census records and the best way to access them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Following is a List of Headings and Tables found throughout the book. I haven&#8217;t attempted to include the subheadings.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cousins and Finding the Place of Origins in Family Papers<\/li>\n<li>Find Your Ancestor&#8217;s Place of Origin in Books and Newspapers<\/li>\n<li>Immigration and Naturalization Records and Passenger Lists Used for Place of Origin<\/li>\n<li>Place of Origin Found in American Church Records<\/li>\n<li>Place of Origin Found in Federal, State and County Records<\/li>\n<li>Place of Origin Found Through Other Online Sources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Geogen Surname Mapping<\/li>\n<li>Ancestry.de Namensforschung<\/li>\n<li>Verwandt.de German Surname Maps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Maps and Gazetteers?<\/li>\n<li>Places with the Same Name<\/li>\n<li>Anglicization of German Place Names<\/li>\n<li>Name Variations Due to Border Changes<\/li>\n<li>Maps for Many Purposes<\/li>\n<li>What you will find in <em>German Maps &#038; Facts for Genealogy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Online Maps and Gazetteers<\/li>\n<li>Meyers Orts- Gazetteer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Immigrants Often Traveled With Friends<\/li>\n<li>Early Colonial Passenger Lists<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia Was the Arrival Port &#8211; Southwest Germany Was the Homeland<\/li>\n<li>Why go to America? (Up Until 1850)<\/li>\n<li>Passenger Lists Beginning in 1820<\/li>\n<li>Why Go to America? (From 1850 to 1860)<\/li>\n<li>Passenger Lists Beginning in 1850 &#8211; The Port of Bremen<\/li>\n<li>Table of Online Indexed Passenger Ship Lists<\/li>\n<li>Internet Access to the Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1834<\/li>\n<li>Microfilm Access to the Hamburg Passenger Lists<\/li>\n<li>Interpreting Column Headers in the Hamburg Passenger Lists<\/li>\n<li>Port of Le Havre, France<\/li>\n<li>Castle Garden 1855-1890<\/li>\n<li>The Barge Office<\/li>\n<li>Ellis Island 1892-1954<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935<\/li>\n<li>Naturalization Records<\/li>\n<li>Manumission Records<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>FamilySearch.org German Databases<\/li>\n<li>Indexed Databases at FamilySearch.org<\/li>\n<li>Browsable Databases at FamilySearch.org<\/li>\n<li>FamilySearch.org International Genealogical Index (IGI) Online<\/li>\n<li>Using Ancestry.com for German Ancestry Research<\/li>\n<li>Free Records at Ancestry.com [Over 700 Databases!]<\/li>\n<li>Other German Databases Found at Ancestry.com<\/li>\n<li>American Records Dealing with Germans found at Ancestry.com<\/li>\n<li>Translating Online German Websites<\/li>\n<li>Ortsfamilienb\u00fccher &#8211; Town Genealogies<\/li>\n<li>30 Helpful Online German Research Resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You Have the Place &#8211; Now Where Did They attend Church?<\/li>\n<li>Using the <em>Map Guide to German Parish Registers<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Researching Protestant German Church Records at Archion.de<\/li>\n<li>Timeline For German Church &#038; Civil Vital Records Research<\/li>\n<li>Civil Registration of Vital Records<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Guide to Terminology Used in German Vital Records<\/li>\n<li>Words Commonly found in German Vital Records with English Equiv.<\/li>\n<li>Words Meaning Cause of Death, Illnesses &#038; Diseases in German Vital Records<\/li>\n<li>Understanding Latin, Symbols, &#038; Abbreviations found in Parish Records<\/li>\n<li>Months or Signs of the Zodiac Found in Church Records<\/li>\n<li>Symbols found in Parish Registers<\/li>\n<li>German Abbreviations Found in Parish Registers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Censuses of the German States &#038; Free Cities &#8211; From 1816 to 1864, 1867 National &#038; 1871-1916 Federal [with a listing of all German census years by state or free city from 1816 to 1916]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book is also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=3186\">PDF<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a pleasure to announce this newest edition to the Tracing Your Ancestors series. 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