Explore your ethnic German heritage from the comfort of your own computer! This revised 2^nd edition highlights important German resources on popular genealogy websites including Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, as well as lesser-known resources such as Archion.de. With helpful illustrated step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to use each site to its fullest potential for German genealogy, including how to get around language barriers and navigate the various German states that have existed throughout the centuries. In addition, this book contains links to the best websites to consult when answering key German genealogy questions, from unpuzzling place names to locating living relatives in the old country. (169pp. illus. index. Masthof Press, rev. 2^nd edition 2025.)

How is this revised edition different than the first?

• Full chapter on MeyersGaz.org, the electronic version of the leading geographical dictionary of the Second German Empire
• Including a step-by-step for connecting villages to church parishes
• Talking about the German Genealogy Resource Map, the tool from a collaboration between German and American genealogy societies
• More background on all-important church records
• Including web finders for present-day parishes in the German-speaking nations
• Mentioning new translation tools such as DeepL
• Copy of the phonetische Namenkarte for deducing the spelling variants for places and names
• New chapters on immigration methodologies, both in Germany and America
• New step-by-steps, including looking at FamilySearch’s many image-only collections
• New chapter on Matricula.eu, the top site for Roman Catholic records
• New details and step-by-steps about the massive Germany-based site Compgen.de
• Rundowns on new web-based service offering professional help such as Germanology Unlocked, the German Genealogy Collective, and the German Genealogy Headquarters
• Appendixes to help match villages with church records and a checklist of American records