Online Archives
Arcinsys
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| The Arcinsys Homepage |
Online archives for Hessen genealogical records.
Szczecin Archives
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| The Szczecin Archives Homepage |
Szczecin Poland Online Records
Archion
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| The Archion Hompage |
Subscription website but it has lots of digitized records for a lot of Germany and they add new records all the time.
Archive Portal
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| The archivportal homepage |
Search German archives online for person records. View them online for free.
German Naming Conventions:
Family Tree Magazine's Explanation
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| The Article from Family Tree Magazine |
Talks about why your ancestors might have 3 different names, and why almost every German child was named Johannes or Anna Maria in before the 19th century.
Word Glossaries:
Great word lists specifically for words you will come across in genealogy documents. Includes: words related to time, abbreviations, general word list for genealogy, list of illnesses found in german church records, and words used in official documents.
A list by family search of words you are likely to find in German vital records. They are in normal type.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/article/german-glossary
Family Tree magazine's list of words you are likely to find. They are ordered by type of word.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/oldgermanprofessions.html
Largest list of old German occupations I have found. I find it very helpful and have never not found n occupation on this list.
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/German/GermanS.htm
Causes of death that includes samples of kurrentschrift of what the word looks like when written
https://web.archive.org/web/20070807144958/http://www.tr62.de:80/occupations/groups.htm
Very good list for a variety of German occupations.
Reading Old German Script tutorials and resources:
https://familysearch.org/ask/learningViewer/375Free Family search videos that teach you to read old German script.
http://www.kurrentschrift.net/index.php?s=schreiben
This website will take text that you enter into it and show what it looks like in kurrentschrift
http://altdeutsche-schrift.de/adsschreiben.php#schrifftfeld
Lets you type in different fonts for lots of old German scripts
https://web.archive.org/web/20180219192836/http://hast.name/script.pdf
A pdf file that has compiled pictures of scripts, examples of abbreviations, and images of usage.
Free online courses useful for German Genealogy:
https://isreg.byu.edu/courses/pe/999022071006/public/start.htmBrigham Young University Free online German research course.
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