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A Community of German-born Adoptees, Their Birth Parents & Interested Others - Yahoo! Groups

From the author of Geborener Deutscher, the quarterly newsletter that addressed the issues, interests and concerns of German-born adoptees and their birth/adoptive families. As a member of this group, you will have access to an archive of back issues of Geborener Deutscher.

Carl Zei

This website contains information about famous Thuringian people like Carls Zeiss, Ernst Abbe and others.

Carpathian German Homepage

History, culture and news of Carpathian Germans (Germans from Slovakia), with links to genealogical sites, museums, archives etc.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Displaced Persons (DP) Camp

Personal histories, addresses, photos, e-mail inquiries and links. Nondenominational, all nationalities.

Donauschwaben In The Banat, Including The Arader Land

Geborener Deutscher

Quarterly newsletter that addresses the issues, interests and concerns of German-born adoptees and their birth/adoptive families.

German Ancestors in the Batschka, Hungary

German-Jewish Special Interest Group (GerSig)

Links and data bases and a moderated discussion group on Jewish Genealogy in German-speaking regions, Europe & elsewhere.

Germany Early Nobility

History of the Sorbs/Wends in Germany

Holy Roman Empire - The German Reigning Houses

German Rulers in 1815-2000.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia

Collaborative website. Free database includes tens of thousands of 19th century Jewish family civil records. Surnames include: BACHARACH, GOLDSCHMIDT, GUGENHEIMER, and many more.

Juden in Nordhessen

Web site housing north Hessen family genealogies and documents.

Pommerscher Verein Freistadt

This site features descendants of immigrants from the State of Pommern, Prussia prior to 1945. It also includes a database of about 70,000 names.

Records of the T

Compilation of Latin, Hungarian, and German published, archival, and family documents middle ages-current with selected English translations, and genealogies of Hungarian, German, Austrian, Belgian, Polish, Canadian, Croatian, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, & US-American families.

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Early emigration of Rhinelanders to Pennsylvania.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries

The Salzburgers

Early settlers in Georgia.

WW-Person

A database of persons of German nobility.