Selected German Resources at the OGS Library
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Computer
- Ancestry.com – passenger lists for New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc.
Emmigration & Immigration
- Early Pennsylvania pioneers from Mutterstadt in the Palatinate.
- Eighteenth century Pennsylvania emigrants from Hassloch and Böhl in the Palatinate.
- Emigrants from Eppingen to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Even more Palatine families, 18th century immigrants to the American colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian origins.
- German immigrants in American church records, volume 1: Indiana protestant.
- German Immigrants: lists of passengers bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854, with places of origin.
- German immigrants: lists of passengers bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862.
- Germans to America, lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports, 1850-1855.
- Jetzt sind wir Amerika, sudhessen in der neuen welt: berichte und briefe.
- Mercenaries from Hessen-Hanau who remained in Canada and the United States after the American Revolution.
- More Palatine families: some immigrants to the middle colonies 1717-1776 and their European origins, plus, new discoveries on German families who arrived in Colonial New York in 1710.
- Nineteenth century emigrants from Baden.
- Palatine Mennonite census lists, 1664-1793.
- Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.
- Pennsylvania pioneers from Wolfersweiler Parish, Saarland, Germany.
- Rhineland emigrants, lists of German settlers in Colonial America.
- The Amish-Mennonites of Waldeck and Wittgenstein.
- The Baden emigration book.
- The Wuerttemberg emigration index.
- Westerwald to America: some 18th century German immigrants.
- Wir ziehen nach Amerika, briefe Odenwalder auswanderer aus den jahren 1830 bis 1833.
Family Books and Church Records
- Amt Zwingenberg/Bergstr. Mannschaftsregister von 1771.
- Brensbacher und Niederkainsbacher Familien-Buch, 1655 bis 1732.
- Dornfelder kirchenbucher aus dem ukrainischen Gebietsarchiv Lemberg-Lviv.
- Evangelische church records of Baumbach, Braach and Sterkelshausen, Hessen-Kassel 1658-1748.
- Familienbuch Steinbach, Kreis Giessen, families bis 1807.
- Familiennamem im Huttenberger Land von 1470-1900.
- Friedrichstal church records 1698-1812.
- Records of the Lutheran church, Herschberg, Germany 1755-1839.
- Vielbrunner und Seckmauerer Familien-Buch, 1655-1742.
Handbooks
- A genealogist's guide to discovering your Germanic ancestors, Anderson.
- A German genealogical primer, Potts.
- A guide to German parish registers in the family history library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Cerny.
- Address book of Germanic genealogy, Thode.
- Beginner's guide to Germanic genealogy, Edwards.
- Encyclopedia of German-American genealogical research, Smith.
- Encyclopedia of German-American genealogical research, Smith.
- German genealogical research, Schweitzer.
- In search of your German roots: a complete guide to tracing your ancestors in the Germanic areas of Europe, Baxter.
- Schlegel's American families of German ancestry in the United States.
- The ABCs of German-American migration, annotated guide to German-American migration records.
- The Atlantic bridge to Germany, Hall.
- The German research companion, Riemer.
Maps and Guides
- A tour of ten important Anabaptist and Reformed sites in rural Switzerland, Wenger.
- Anabaptist and Reformed walking tours of the cities of Zurich and Bern, Switzerland, Wenger.
- Atlas for German America, Thode.
- Atlas of the German empire – 1892, Thomsen.
- Der grosse Shell atlas – Deutschland/Europa 1985/86.
- Lands of the German empire and before, Uncapher.
- Map guide to German parish registers (21 volumes), Hansen.
- Meyers orts- und verkehrs-lexikon des Deutschen Reichs, with researcher's guide and translations of the introduction, instruction for the use of the gazetteer, and abbreviations, Wright.
- Super strassen Deutschland und Europa 1:4000000.
Newspapers
- Genealogical abstracts from newspapers of the German Reformed Church, 1830-1839; 1840-1849, Manning.
- Index to the subjects of obituaries abstracted from Der Christliche Botschafter of the Evangelical Church 1836-1866, Seder.
Periodicals
- Germanic Genealogist.
- Mennonite Family History.
- Palatine Patter: Newsletter of Palatines to America.
- Pennsylvania Mennonite Family History.
