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 […]
We shipped the soft cover volumes of Map Guide to German Parish Registers, Volume 17, Bavaria IV Oberpfalz today. If all goes as planned at the bindery, we should be shipping the hard cover editions on Wednesday, November 28. The soft cover volume may be purchased online at the Family Roots Publishing Company website.
Note that […]
Map Guide to German Parish Registers Volumes 18 & 19 are now available. The soft-cover volumes were bound and delivered during the past week. The hard-cover volume for Bavaria Schwaben (Vol. 18) is now also shipping and the hard cover Bavaria Niederbayern I (Vol. 19) will ship the next week.
The Schwaben volume covers 3,643 places […]
If you have an interest in the history of the free state of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), there are two websites that you must check out.
The first is the Bavaria Page at Wikipedia.org.
There you will find sections on:
History
Geography
Politics
Economy
Culture (including religion)
Administrative Divisions (including links to pages sealing with their subdivisons)
Historical Buildings (with pictures)
Miscellaneous (includes famous people, Company […]
Volumes 14 and 15 of the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series covering Bavaria Unterfranken (Volume 14) and Oberfranken (Volume 15) are now available in both soft and hard cover. All orders can be shipped within 24 hours for either book.
One thing that should be mentioned about Bavarian research is that there is very […]
Just a note about what is planned for the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series. Since we just finished the three Rhineland volumes, the last of which (Volume 13) included the Bavarian Province of the Pfalz (Palatinate), it made sense to just continue with Bavaria. So the next 10 volumes will all deal with […]
Patty pointed out an item she found on the American Historical Association blog to me a bit ago. It is from back in March, but still timely. Following is an excerpt:
The Bavarian State Library, or Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, one of Europe’s most important and most visited research libraries, has joined Google’s ongoing efforts to digitize public […]
Got relatives in the Bavarian area of Ansbach, Mittelfranken? If so, you’re soon to have access to many original records previously difficult to get at.
PROVO, UT, May 13, 2008 — FamilySearch recently announced an inaugural project in concert with FamilyLink.com, Inc., to digitize and index a valuable German genealogy collection containing over 3.5 million […]