Germany Online Genealogy Records

Germany

Online Genealogy Records

These are genealogy links to Germany online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a family history center or FamilySearch affiliate library.

Birth, Marriage, and Deaths: Church Records and Civil Registration Births 1500-1858: Germany Births and Baptisms at FamilySearch; index & images 1500-1858: Netherlands, Bibliothèque Wallonne, Card Indexes at FamilySearch; index & images 1500-1971: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1518-1921: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1551-1992: Germany, Prussia, East Prussia, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1558-1898: Germany Births and Baptisms at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($) 1567-1945: Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at Ancestry; index & images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at Findmypast; index & images ($) Archives of the Lutheran Church at Archion; index & images ($) Marriages 1500-1858: Netherlands, Bibliothèque Wallonne, Card Indexes at FamilySearch; index & images 1500-1971: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1518-1921: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1551-1992: Germany, Prussia, East Prussia, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1558-1929: Germany Marriages at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($) 1567-1945: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at Ancestry; index & images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at Findmypast; index & images ($) Archives of the Lutheran Church at Archion; index & images ($) Deaths 1500-1858: Netherlands, Bibliothèque Wallonne, Card Indexes at FamilySearch; index & images 1500-1971: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1518-1921: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1551-1992: Germany, Prussia, East Prussia, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1567-1945: Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1582-1958: Germany Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($) 1600s forward: Germany Find a Grave at Ancestry; index only ($) 1939-1955: Germany, Deaths of German Citizens Abroad, Registers from Berlin Standesamt 1 at Ancestry; index & images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast; index & images ($) Archives of the Lutheran Church at Archion; index & images ($) Divorce Biographies German Biography at Deutsche-biographie.de; index only Cemetery Records 1600s forward: Germany Find a Grave Index at Ancestry; index only ($) Cemetery Search at BillionGraves; index & images ($) German Military Grave Registration at Volksbund; images only ($) Germany Tombstones at Genealogy.net; images only Census 1939-1945: Jewish Holocaust Memorials and Jewish Residents of Germany at MyHeritage; index only ($) Compiled Genealogies Compiled Genealogies at Gedbas; index only Germany GEDCOM Index at GEDCOMindex; index only

Directories 1815-1974: Germany and Surrounding Areas, Address Books at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1915-1981: German Phone Directories at Ancestry; index & images ($) Database of Historic Addresses at Genealogy.net; index & images Immigration Records 1700s-1900s: Germans Immigrating to the US at MyHeritage; index only 1712-1933: US German Immigrants at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1850-1897: US Germans to America Index at FamilySearch; index only 1920-1939: Germany Bremen Passenger Lists at Staats Archiv Bremen; index only; Also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($) 1938-1945: Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe at Ancestry; index only ($) 1943-1959: Index of Jewish Displaced Person and Refugee Cards at MyHeritage; index & images ($) German Emigration Records, Lists and Indexes at GermanRoots; index only Register of German military men who remained in Canada after the American Revolution at FamilySearch; eBook Transcribed Ships Manifests Departing from Germany at ImmigrantShips.net; ; index only Jewish Records 1933-1945: Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany at Memorial Book; index only 1935-1944: Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1938-1939: UK, Selected Records Relating to Kindertransport (USHMM) at Ancestry; index only ($) 1938-1945: Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe (USHMM) at Ancestry; index only ($) 1939-1945: Jewish Holocaust Memorials and Jewish Residents of Germany at MyHeritage; index only ($) Holocaust Records at JewishGen; index only ($) Military 1500-1939: Germany & Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers at Ancestry; images only ($) 1752 & 1792 Halle, Germany, Thadden Regiment, Muster Roll at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1760-1933: Germany and Austria, Military and Marine Unit Histories at Ancestry; images only ($) 1816-1942: Germany, Military and Marine Weekly Publications at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1870-1871: German Casualties in Franco-Prussian War at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1891-1918: German Navy Crew Chronicle at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1911: Germany Torpedo Personnel Register at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1939-1948: Germany Military Killed in Action at Ancestry; index & images ($) World War I, 1917-1918 1914-1915: Germany Navy Casualty List at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1914-1917: Germany WWI Casualty Lists at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1914-1918: Histories of the German Army in the War at Archive.org; eBook Nobility German Empire Nobility at Almanachdegotha.org; index only Studbook of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4 at FamilySearch; eBook Obituaries German Obituaries at Trauer.de; index & images ($) Periodicals Periodical Source Index at Findmypast; index & images ($) Persecutions 1939-1947: Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1943-1959: Index of Jewish Displaced Person and Refugee Cards at MyHeritage; index & images ($) 1946-1958: German Concentration Camp Records at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1946-1971: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons at Ancestry; index & images ($)

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