Selected German Research Sources
in Special Collections
(Revised 21 June 2004)

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Title

Author

Call Number

Across the Atlantic and Beyond: The Migration of German and Swiss Immigrants to America

Haller, Charles R.

R943/H185A

ADAC MaxiAtlas Deutschland

ADAC Verlag

R912.43/A221

Address Book for Germanic Genealogy

Thode, Ernest

R929.1/T449A and Q929.1/T449A

Aids for Research in Germany

Weller, Nova A. and Arta F. Johnson

R929.1/W448A

American Genealogical Resources in German Archives (AGRIGA): A Handbook

Smith, Clifford Neal and Anna Piszczan-Czaja Smith

R929.343/S644A and Q929.343/S644A

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

Gingerich, Hugh and Rachel W. Kreider

Q929.3/G492A

Amish Mennonites in Germany

Guth, Hermann

R943.4/G984A

Atlantic Bridge to Germany (10 vols.)

Hall, Charles M.

R943/H174A

Atlas for Germanic Genealogy (2nd ed.)

Thode, Ernest

R943/T449A

Auswandererhafen Hamburg Emigration Port

Berlin, Jorg and Matthias Schmoock

R943.515/A938

Bibliography and Source Materials for German-American Research

Johnson, Arta

R929.343/J66B

Bibliography on the Colonial Germans of North America

Meynen, Emil

R929.3/H613B

Bibliography on German Settlements in Colonial North America

Meynen, Emil

929.3/M613B

Braunschweig, Oldenburg, and Thuringia Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943/M664B

Brunswick Troops in North America, 1776-1783

Reuter, Claus

R973.346/R447B

Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents

Minert, Roger P.

R929.1/M664D

Dictionary of German Names

Bahlow, Hans

R929.4/B151D

Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes

Edlund, Thomas Kent

R943/E23A

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America (2 vols.)

Burgert, Annette Kunselman

929.3/B955E

Eighteenth Century Register of Emigrants from Southwest Germany (to America and Other Countries)

Hacker, Werner

R943.4/H118E and 943.4/H118E

Encyclopedia of German-American Genealogical Research

Smith, Clifford Neal and Anna Piszczan-Czaja Smith

R973.04/S644E and Q973.04/S644E

Family History Research in the German Democratic Republic

Wellauer, Maralyn A.

Q929.3/W447F

Finding Your German Ancestors

Smelser, Ronald M.

R929.1/S638F and 929.1/S638F

Fisher-Miller Grant and G. E. C. Forever: German Emigration Company Passenger Lists to Texas, July 1844-February 1846

Kleinecke, Charles W.

Q929.3/K64F

From Bremen to America in 1850: Fourteen Rare Emigrant Ship Lists

Smith, Clifford Neal

Q929.3/S644F

Genealogical Guide to German Ancestors from East Germany and Eastern Europe

Arbeitsgemeinschaft ostdeutscher Familienforscher e. V.

R929.3/G326 and 929.3/G326

Genealogical Handbook of German Research (2 vols.)

Jensen, Larry O.

R929.1/J54G and Q929.1/J54G

German Chronicle in the History of the Ohio Valley and its Capital City, Cincinnati, in Particular

Klauprecht, Emil

R977.1/K63G

German Church Books: Beyond the Basics

Smith, Kenneth L.

R943/S653G

German Connection

German Research Association

periodical; ask at desk

German Element in the United States (2 vols.)

Faust, Albert Bernhardt

R973.043/F267G

German Emigration Ships to New Orleans, 1865-1869

von-Maszewski, W. M.

Q929.3/V945G

German Family Research Made Simple (2nd ed.)

Konrad, J.

R943/K82G and Q943/K82G

German Forty-Eighters in the United States

Brancaforte, Charlotte L.

R973.0431/G373

German Genealogical Digest

 

periodical; ask at desk

German Genealogical Research

Schweitzer, George K.

R929.1/S413G

German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York (4 vols.)

Zimmerman, Gary J. and Marion Wolfert

R929.3/G373 and 929.3/G373

German Immigration to America in the Nineteenth Century: A Genealogist's Guide

Wellauer, Maralyn A.

R929.1/W447G and 929.1/W447G

German Immigration to America: The First Wave

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich

R973.043/G373

German Maps and Facts for Genealogy

Uncapher, Wendy K. and Linda M. Herrick

R943/U54G

German Repositories for Genealogists

Immigrant Genealogical Society

R929.1/G373

German Research Companion

Riemer Shirley J.

R929.1/R556G

German Researcher: How to Get the Most out of an LDS Family History Center

Dearden, Fay and Douglas Dearden

R929.1/D278G

German Revolutionists of 1848: Among Whom Many Immigrants to America

Smith, Clifford Neal

Q929.3/S644G

German-American Achievements: 400 Years of Contributions to America

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich

R973.0431/T654G

German-American Experience

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich

R973.0431/T654G

German-American Forty-Eighters, 1848-1998

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich

R973.0431/G373

German-American Names (2nd ed.)

Jones, George F.

R929.4/J77G

German-English Genealogical Dictionary

Thode, Ernest

R929.1/T449G

Germanic Genealogy

Brandt, Edward R. et al

R929.1/G373

Germans in Colonial Times

Bittinger, Lucy F.

R973.043/B624G and 973.043/B624G

Germans in Wisconsin

Zeitlin, Richard H.

R977.5004/Z48G

Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U. S. Ports (67 vols.) (covers 1850-1897)

Glazier, Ira A. and P. William Filby

R929.3/G373 and partial circulating set

Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U. S. Ports (CD #355 & #356) (covers 1850-1888)

Family Tree Maker

CD-ROMs; ask at desk

Germans to America-Series II: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U. S. Ports (6 vols.) (covers 1840-1848)

Glazier, Ira A. and P. William Filby

R929.3/G393

Guide to German Parish Registers (2 vols.)

Cerny, Johni

R929.34/C415G and 929.34/C415G

Hesse Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943/M664B and Q943/M664B

Hesse-Nassau Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.41/M664H

Hessians and the other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War

Lowell, Edward J.

R973.342/L914H

How to Read German Church Records Without Knowing Much German

Johnson, Arta F.

R929.1/J66H

If I Can You Can Decipher Germanic Records

Bentz, Edna M.

R943/B479I and Q943/B479I

Immigrants from the German-speaking Countries of Europe: A Selective Bibliography

Krewson, Margrit B.

929.1/K92I

In Search of Your German Roots

Baxter, Angus

R929.1/B355I

Kingdom of Saxony Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.21/M664K

Lands of the German Empire and Before

Uncapher, Wendy K.

R943.083/U54L

Major Genealogical Record Sources in Germany

Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

943/M234

Maps of the German Empire of 1871

Jensen Publications

R943.083/J54M

Mecklenburg Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.17/M644M

Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs (3 vols.)

Wright, Raymond S.

R943/M613

North Germany to North America: 19th Century Migration

Stockman, Robert Lee

R973.0431/N865

Ohio's German Heritage

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich

R977.1/T654O

Passenger Lists (and Fragments thereof) from Hamburg and Bremen to Australia and the United States, 1846-1849

Smith, Clifford Neal

Q943.4515/S644P

Pomerania Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.17/M664P

Preliminary Survey of the German Collection

Smelser, Ronald M. et al

Q943/S638P

Province of Saxony Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.21/M664P

Reconstructed Passenger Lists for 1850: Hamburg to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States, Parts 1-4

Smith, Clifford Neal

Q929.3/S644R

Reconstructed Passenger Lists for 1851 Via Hamburg

Smith, Clifford Neal

Q929.3/S644R

Record Keeping and Archives in West Germany

Wellauer, Maralyn A.

R929.343/W447R and Q929.343/W447R

Research Guide to German-American Genealogy

Bellingham, Mary et al

Q929.1089/R432

Researching in Germany: A Handbook for Your Visit to the Homeland of Your Ancestors

Minert, Roger P. and Shirley J. Riemer

 

Rhineland Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.43/M664R

Schlegel’s American Families of German Ancestry in the United States (4 vols.)



Schlegel, Carl W. 920.0092/S339S

Schleswig-Holstein Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.512/M664S and Q943.512/M664S

Searching for Your German Ancestors

Eschenbach, Virginia

R943/E74S

Spelling Variations in German Names

Minert, Roger P.

R929.4/M664S

Steppes to Neu Odessa: Germans from Russia Who Settled in Odessa Township, Dakota Territory, 1872-1876

Stupnik, Cynthia Anne Frank

R978.3394/S934S

Student's Guide to German American Genealogy

Robl, Gregory

H929.1/R666S

Tracing Your German Roots

Wellauer, Maralyn A.

R929.1/W447T and Q929.1/W447T

Understanding Meyers Orts

Dearden, Fay S.

R943/D285U

various auswanderer (emigrant) books

 

see online catalog

various familienbucher (family books)

 

see online catalog

various German church books

 

see online catalog

various German genealogical periodicals

 

ask at desk

various ortsippenbucher (German genealogies)

 

see online catalog

Westerwald to America  Burgert, Annette Kunselman and Henry Z. Jones, Jr.  973.0431/B954W

Westphalia Place Name Indexes (With Hohenzollern, Lippe, Schaumburg-Lippe, and Waldeck

Minert, Roger P.

R943.56/M664W and Q943.56/M664W

Where to Look for Hard-to-Find German-speaking Ancestors in Eastern Europe

Brandt, Bruce and Edward Reimer Brandt

R929.1089/B821W

Wurttemberg Place Name Indexes

Minert, Roger P.

R943.46/M644W

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