Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about finding and using resources for researching in Germany, Prussia, and Austria, and German genealogy organizations and social media.
Familienglück, ein Büchlein für Jünglinge und Jungfrauen, die sich verheirathen wollen, 1903. (courtesy MKI) The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies can help your German research. Founded at the University of Wisconsin [...]
I believe Kartenmeister.com for Prussian genealogy is an indispensable tool. The brainchild of Uwe-Karsten Krickhahn, Kartenmeister.com contains more than 109,000 entires. If you're researching locations east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, based on the [...]
An updated index to Hamburg passenger lists for 1850-1914 is now available at Ancestry. This is great news. Previously the database only had indexed records from 1887-1914. The additional 37 years have added 800,000 new [...]
The Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin (Evangelisches Zentralarchiv) has a great collection of Lutheran parish registers from Prussia. They are from the former Prussian church provinces beyond the Oder-Neisse border. This area includes Ostpreußen, [...]
