Help Tracing German Ancestry
The following articles or presentations provide information on tracing German ancestry:
1) A compendium of Family History Societies in Germany and some suggestions as to how it may be used. (In development) (Link)
2) Peter Towey (AGFHS Vice-President) has recently given a 2-part tutorial on Tracing Your German Ancestors' at the AGFHS meeting on Zoom (August and December 2021). The Powerpoint slides are available to download as PDFs:
3) Talk by Jeanette R Rosenberg (9 April 2011)
4) Talk by Jeanette R Rosenberg (14 October 2017)
5) Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. is the largest genealogical society in Germany. Their website 'Genealogy.net' provides many useful databases and search facilities. Slides describing the main features are available for download as a PDF document: Genealogy.net
6) For research into German WW1 internees, Yvonne Cresswell (retired Social Historian, Manx National Heritage) gave a talk on 'Living with the Wire: Civilian Internment on the Isle of Man during the First World War' (December 2021) and has provided a list of useful links. It is also worth visiting the website of the Centre for WW1 Internment at Knockaloe www.knockaloe.im
