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Selected German Resources at the Ohio Genealogical Society Library
Ohio Genealogical Society
611 State Route 97 W
Bellville OH 44813-8813
Computer:
Ancestry.com – passenger lists for New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, etc.
Emigration and 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 17551839.
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 18361866, Seder.
Periodicals:
Germanic Genealogist.
Mennonite Family History.
Palatine Patter: Newsletter of Palatines to America.
Pennsylvania Mennonite Family History.
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