Ancestry has now posted a total of 540 German city directories containing about 27,000,000 names. This data is available to all those with a membership to Ancestry.de or a World Deluxe Ancestry.com membership. The majority of the directories are from the late 1800s and early to mid-1900s. Genealogists can browse all of the German directories […]
While searching on Ancestry.de this morning, I happened to run across a link to a new German genealogy-related blog called Abenteuer Ahnenforschung written by Andrea Bentschneider. Andrea was born in 1968 in Hamburg and grew up there. After spending 10 years in New York she returned to Hamburg in 2001.
Andrea’s blog is written in the […]
The Ancestry.de site has about 1500 historic German postcards posted online, dated 1893 to 1963.
These cards come from Mary Martin Postcards in Maryville, Maryland. They can be searched by place - or you can browse by place, and find cards of interest. Keep in mind that this collection is made up of only 1500 […]
The 483 page History of Germans in England (Geschichte der Deutschen in England) has been digitized and posted at Ancestry. The volume was written by Karl Heinrich Schaible, with a full title and bibliography of: Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den Ersten Germanischen Ansiedlungen in Britannien Bis Zum Ende Des 18. Jahr-Hunderts. Strassburg, Germany: […]
Ancestry.de has continued to post the various censuses for Mecklenburg Schwerin. So far, they have digitized and indexed censuses for this area that cover the following years:
Mecklenburg Schwerin Volkszählungen 1819
Mecklenburg Schwerin Volkszählungen 1867
Mecklenburg Schwerin Volkszählungen 1890
Mecklenburg Schwerin Volkszählungen 1900