BRITISH RESOURCES (not yet subdivided)
- Search UK Probate Records
- Northumberland Archives
- University of Leicester Special Collections Online
- Francis Frith - postcards, photographs, and books of locations in the U.K.
- FreeReg - transcriptions of parish registers
- FreeCEN - free census record search
- FreeBMD - free transcriptions of civil registrations of birth, death, and marriage records
- GENUKI: UK and Ireland Genealogy
- 1911Cenus.org - despite its name this site has information about every U.K. census plus links to other genealogy resources
- England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950, at FamilySearch (transcriptions only)
- British Surnames (origin and distribution)
- General Register Office (U.K.) to search for and order birth, marriage, and death certificates (You'll be required to create a username and choose a password.)
- Northumberland, England Genealogy, FamilySearch Wiki
- The Book of English Trades and Library of Useful Arts, 1827, available at Internet Archive
- The Workhouse. The story of an institution. Resources for finding workhouse records in England
- 1851 Map of England with several options to search parishes
- Maps at the National Library of Scotland
- Survey of English Dialects (to hear the probable the accents of your British ancestors)
- A Memoir of Northumberland, Descriptive of Its Scenery, Monuments, and History by William Sidney Gibson, M.A., 1860, available at Google Books. Includes descriptions of towns and cities; professions; churches; etc.
- Bedlington. Northumberland Extensive Urban Survey by Northumberland County Council
- Gazetteer of British Place Names by The Association of British Counties
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, or London's Central Criminal Court.
GERMAN RESOURCES
General Research
- German Civil Registrations: A guide to German birth, marriage, and death registration
- Ten Tips for Deciphering Old German Handwriting
- SK Translations: German-English Translation Services
- German Genealogy Group
- Bavarian State Library Online (Use translate.google.com to translate from German to your own language.)
- Residential Registration in Germany - a video with Dr. Roger Minert
Books
- Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites. James M. Beidler
Newspapers
- Newspaper Information System at The Digital Library of the Berlin State Library (English translation available)
- Using German Newspapers When You don't Know Much German - video from St. Louis County Library
- Free German Newspapers - a list with links at The Ancestor Hunt
FamilySearch Wikis
Researching Immigrants
- Tracing German American Immigrants
- Online German Emigration Records, Lists and Indexes
- Germany Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin (a FamilySearch Wiki)
- Tips for Finding Your German Immigrant Ancestor's Hometown in Germany, blog post at Joe Beine's Genealogy Roots Blog
Maps and Gazetteers (after you know the hometown of your German ancestor)
- FamilySearch Wiki Germany Gazetteers gives helpful information about using gazetteers and the location of several online volumes.
- Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs (often known as Meyers Orts Gazetteer. Online, free, and searchable by name of town/city. Read a review of this website here.
- For scans of actual pages see Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs, Volume 1: A-K and Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs, Volume 2: L-Z. Both volumes are written in German and both contain more than 1200 pages.
German Language Helps
- Helps for Translating That Old German Handwriting
- Helps for Translating the Old German Typeface
- SK Translations: German-English Translation Services. There are many posts on this blog that will help those who are trying translate documents themselves.
- The Bohemian Genealogist. At this blog you can find a list of German words, including professions, with translations into English. Two other posts feature multiple images of handwriting of common German names, both male and female, especially helpful because they offer the opportunity to compare the same word with different handwriting.
- German English Genealogical Dictionary by Ernest Thode
- TIPS: Working with German Newspaper Articles at The Enthusiastic Genealogist
- German Handwriting Generator. Type English words into the box and see how they will look in several German handwriting variations. The website is in German but it would be easy enough to copy and paste into a German-to-English translator such as translate.google.com. Post with info here.
- Suetterlin Handwriting Translator. Type English words and see how they look in Suetterlin handwriting. (Javascript must be activated to use.)
- List of Old German Professions. Profession in English, German words and variations after.
- 10 Must-Knows When Starting German Genealogy by Kathy Wurth at SK Translations
- A Compendious German and English Dictionary With Notation of Correspondences and Brief Etymologies by William Dwight Whitney, August Hjalmar Edgren, 1877 at Google Books
Miscellaneous
- 18th Century PA German Naming Customs
- German History in Documents and Images, http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/index.cfm
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