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A Glossary of German Words Used in Official Documents

beliebte Vornamen: Hitlisten 1890 - 2008

The most popular first names in Germany since 1890.

Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

Equivalent Czechslovakian, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Russian & Yiddish Foreign Given Names Updated

FamilySearch Research Wiki - German Genealogical Word List

This list contains German words with their English translations. The words included here are those that you are likely to find in genealogical sources.

FamilySearch Research Wiki - Germany Letter Writing Guide

Form Letters for German Genealogy

Fraktur and German Script

Fraktur Chart

German Dictionary

Free German-English dictionary.

German Genealogical Word List

German Genealogy Translation Service

German genealogy translation service and also translations for other languages. More than twenty years of experience translating.

German Genealogy Translations

German/English-English/German translation services focusing only on documents pertaining to German Genealogy.

German Letter Writing Guide

For genealogical queries, from FamilySearch.org.

German Study Group / German Words

Includes time keeping, occupations, illnesses, common genealogical words, and words used in official documents.

German Translation Service

Specializations: German genealogy, Fraktur and German script, legal documents.

German Translation Service for Old German Handwriting

Translators of handwritten documents in the old German scripts.

German Translation Service for Old German Handwriting

Translations of handwritten documents, letters, manuscripts, civil and church records in the Old German Scripts.

German Translation Service, translators of the Old German Scripts

German Translator

Translation of 19th- and 20th-century handwritten correspondence, diaries.