German Map Guide

Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, or Elsass-Lothringen) was a territorial division created by the German Empire in 1871 after the annexation of most of Alsace and a portion of Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and on the east of the Vosges […]

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 […]