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The links in this area are website & informational links focused ‘primarily’ on the many former Austro-Hungarian political regions. FamilySearch – Research in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Austria Austrian Church Resources Catholic: www.katholisch.at Lutheran: www.evang.at Jewish / Israelitische Kultusgemeinde: www.ikg-wien.at General Information & Materials ANNO – Austrian Newspapers Online Austro-Hungarian Genealogy Austrian State Archives Austrian National Library Austrian Black Cross Austrian Family History Austro-Hungarian Military Records FAMILIE AUSTRIA – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Genealogie und Geschichte GenTeam Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft “ADLER”  Historikerkanzlei Genealogisch-Historische Recherchen GmbH IHFF – Institute for Historical Family Research Jewish Community in Vienna Kriegsarchiv (War Archives) Lehmann Online – Digital Address Books, Vienna 1859 – 1942 MOM – Monasterium NÖ-Burgen ÖFR –Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Familien…

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  In order to facilitate Research of the period of German National Socialism (NSDAP, Nazism), ManyRoads provides the following ‘reading and research’ list. It is our hope that this small document provides readers with reasonable resources with which to begin their research and learning. Be advised this set of resources is NEITHER complete nor exhaustive.  Also be advised, these resources will likely lead to the discovery of disturbing facts and information. Findbuch- For Victims of National Socialism Gedenkbuch für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus an der Universität Wien 1938 List of national socialist camps and detention sites 1933 – 1945 Germany A Memorial International center on the Nazi era – Arolsen Archives…

Amnesty 1945: The Revolving Door of Stalin’™s Gulag Brutal Drawings from the GULAG Getty Images- GULAGS Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy Gulag: Understanding the Magnitude of What Happened Gulag Bibliography GULAG CZ GULAG Fact Sheet Gulag in History and Memory Gulag Memorial (Deutsch) Gulag MEMORIAL Deutschland e. V. GULAG Online- Tour Human Rights Center “Memorial” (Russia) Kotlas- Gulag Letters from the Gulag Library of Congress Gulag Materials Mapping the Gulag Out of the Shadows, the GULAG Perm-36 Searching the Gulag Database in One Step Solovetsky Camp and GULAG Sound Archives- European Memories fo the GULAG Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom Tales From the Gulag…

Ancestry.com -$ Archion -$ Archives- $ Digital Public Library of America (Free) FamilySearch (Free) FindMyPast -$ Geneanet ($ & Free) Geni -$ GrandMa Online -$ Internet Archive (Free) MyHeritage -$ WikiTree (Free)

Denmark  Danish Christian Names The Danish Immigrant Museum Den Danske Pioneer (The Danish Pioneer): A newspaper published since 1872 in Omaha, Neb., then Elmwood Park, Ill. National Danish-American Genealogical Society Statens Arkiver: Dansk Data Arkiv (Danish Demographic Database) Trykt Gotisk Alfabet (Printed Gothic Alphabet) Norway Ancestors from Norway Gjenvick Archives and Collectibles Gravminner i Norge How to trace your ancestors in Norway Norway-Heritage Norway National Archives (Digital) Norway National Archives- English Norwegian-American Genealogy – Vesterheim Genealogical Center Norwegian National Archives and Census Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library Norwegian American Weekly: A bilingual newspaper created by the merger of late-1800s papers. Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC Norwegian Listserv and Genealogy…

Earlham Digital Archives Earlham Exhibits Esther Griffin White Collection Friends Historical Association Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Irish Quakers Josiah Parker Papers: A Digital Exhibit NEHGS- Quaker Genealogy Pennington Research Association Archives Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies Quaker Electronic Archive Quaker Family History Society- UK Quaker Information Center Quakers in Britain- Library Swarthmore Friends Historical Library The Religious Society of Friends U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607–1943 (Ancestry.com)

5000 years of migrations from the Eurasian steppes to Europe Auswanderung- GenWiki Auswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz Bavaria- Emigration/Immigration Bremen Passenger Lists Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Migration) Castle Garden Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (Center for the study of Migration to Latin America) Confessional Migration Cyndi’s List Ships & Passenger Lists (General Ship Lists) Cyndi’s List Ships & Passenger Lists (Specific Ship Lists) Die Auswanderung von Deutschland nach Amerika Die Maus, Gesellschaft für Familienforschung DOMiD – Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany Finding Your Family from Ship Passenger Lists Forced Ethnic Migration FreeGenealogyLookups Passenger & Immigration Lists German Emigration Center German Immigrants German Immigration: Ship Records and Passenger Lists German…

Archives Cemeteries Poland – National Poland – Regional Additional Polish Research Links

Ahnen und Sippen der Bessarabiendeutschen American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Bessarabia Regional Interest Group Bessarabiendeutscher Verein e.V. Black Sea German Research Deutsche Kolonisten Die Dobrudscha Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family – Uncovering the secrets of finding family and records in the former USSR Germans from Russia Heritage Society Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Geschichte der deutschen Kolonie Neu Samara Geschichte der Russlanddeutschen Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen Kolonien Hannowka – Ein deutsches Dorf in Bessarabien 1896-1940 Major German Colonies in South Russia History of the Russian Germans Kitschkas ein deutschstammiges Dorf am Ural Klöstitz, Bessarabien Letters from Stalin’s Russia Linguistic Map of the Volga Germans Museum für Russlanddeutsche Kulturgeschichte…

Mennonites (Europe) Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden in Deutschland Black Sea German Research Eglise E‰vangelique Mennonite de Luneville Les anabaptistes a Montbeliard (France- Alsace) Letters from Stalin’s Russia Liste ehemaliger Mennonitenkirchen ~ Lists of Former Mennonite Churches Mennonite Genealogical Research (by JRD) Mennoniten-Plautdietsch: eine Sprache wandert durch die Welt Mennoniten aus West Preussen- Mennonites of West Prussia Mennonitische Ansiedlungen in Russland Mennonitische Familiennamen- Ahnenforschung.net Mennonitische Geschichte und Familienforschung (Ahnen-Navi) Mennonitischer Geschichtsverein e.V. (MGV) Mennonitisches Lexikon (MennLex) MennoPedia Enzyklopaedie Rempel Mennonite (Russia) History Russian Mennonite Genealogical Resources Swiss Roots links to Switzerland The Germans Come to North America The Karlswalde Web Pages Täufergeschichte ܜber Mennoniten Vistula Mennonite Studies Project (Now Polish Studies) Mennonites &…

Other Related Holocaust Links pages: Shoah Courseware (Free) The Holocaust – an Introduction The Holocaust: an Introduction –  (sponsors Yad Vashem- Tel Aviv Univ.) The Holocaust (Advanced) The Open University The Holocaust – Statistics & Facts Links Austrian Victims of the Holocaust BYU Harold B. Lee Library Shoah (Holocaust) Card File of the Jewish Population in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia Center for Jewish History Digital Collections Das Zentrum für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte (ZJK) Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands Documents Related to the Holocaust and Refugees, 1933-1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum erinnern.at (Austria Memory) European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)-Countries Forced Labourers and the…

Der Kulturverein Österreichischer Roma und Sinti- Has an exhibit on the migration of Roma to Europe Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti Genetic studies of the Roma (Gypsies): a review Gypsies in Germany (German Gypsies) Identity and Politics of Sinti and Roma in Germany Museum for Roma & Sinti Nazis murdered a quarter of Europe’s Roma, but history still overlooks this genocide Origins and divergence of the Roma (gypsies) Roma Holocaust ROMBASE This project is run by the University of Graz and provides information on the socio-historical situation of the Roma.…

Gays, the Holocaust, and the Pink Triangle Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) – Gays Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: An Exhibit Pink Triangles and Prison Sentences: NAZI persecution of Homosexuals The History of the Gay Male and Lesbian Experience during World War II The Pink Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay Pride The Pink Triangle The Pink Triangle.com Why It Took Decades for LGBTQ Stories to Be Included in Holocaust History    

Hier sind Ortsippenbücher, Adreßbücher, Zeitungen, und Archiven zu finden. This page provides access to Family History Books, Addressbooks, Newspaper, and Archives. Abkürzungen und Zeichen in Kirchenbüchern- Abbreviations and symbols in Church Books Adreßbücher Thüringer Städte : Eisenach Altpreußische Monatsschrift Archiv Preuߟische Allgemeine Zeitungen Archiwa Panstwowe- State Archive in Poznan Badische Ortssippenbücher Berliner Adreßbücher 1799-1943 Berlin Addressbooks Bibliothek der Stadt Bretten (Forschungszentrum für Genealogie) Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) online archives Deutsche Ortssippenbücher Reihe A, B, C Deutschsprachige Adressbücher (German Addressbooks) Die Dokumentationsstelle DLibra- University Poznan ECB Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin Elbinger Adressbuecher Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau (Archiv) Familien Buecher Oberhessen Family Roots Publishing (Germany) Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz German Propoganda…

These links are intended to provide quick access to information and best practices for those beginning their genealogy journey (or for those who simply want to refresh theirs and/or learn new tricks). 25 Best Genealogy Websites for Beginners About.com: How To Begin Tracing Your Family Tree AmericanAncestors Getting Started- Tips to Help You On Your Way Ancestry.com Learning Center: First Steps BBC History Trails: Before You Start Your Family Tree Beginners Genealogy on the Internet Behind the Name FamilySearch- Family History for Beginners FamilyTreeMagazine: 10 Steps to Start Your Family Tree Finding Dulcinea: Beginning Family History Research FindMyPast: 10 tips to start your family history journey FindMyPast: 5 simple steps…

A Post-World War II Tragedy: The Expulsion of the Germans […]1945-49 Bund der Vertreibenen Die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus den Gebieten jenseits von Oder und Neiße Flucht und Vertreibung Forgotten lands? Remembering flight and expulsion in Poland’s former German territories German Expulsion People in Glass Houses (Flucht und Vertreibung) Postwar forced resettlement of Germans echoes through the decades Statistics Of Poland’s Democide The expulsion of Germans after World War II The Seizure of Eastern German Territories Zentrum gegen Vertreibung- Center Opposed to Ethnic Cleansing          

Ahnen-Forscher- auf den Spuren deiner Vorfahren Anglo-German Family History Society Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Memellandkreise e.V. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für mitteldeutsche Familienforschung e.V. (AMF) Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Saarländische Familienkunde Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogie im Kultur- und Heimatverein Magdeburg Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogie Schleswig-Holstein e.V. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogie Thüringen e.V. Arbeitsgemeinschaft ostdeutscher Familienforscher e.V. (AGoFF) Arbeitskreis Familienforschung der Emsländischen Landschaft Arbeitskreis Familienforschung Osnabrück e.V. Arbeitskreis für Familienforschung im Hagener Heimatbund e.V. Arbeitskreis für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde e.V.  Bayerischer Landesverein für Familienkunde e.V. Bergischer Verein für Familienkunde Brandenburgische Genealogische Gesellschaft “Roter Adler” Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Heraldyczno-Genealogiczne- Bydgoszcz Heraldic Genealogical Society Deutsch-Baltische Genealogische Gesellschaft e.V. Deutsche Hugenotten-Gesellschaft e.V. Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft genealogischer Verbände e. V. (DAGV)  Die Pommersche Landsmannschaft Dresdner Verein für…

This is the primary access point to ManyRoads’ “external” Internet Resources (linked information) for conducting genealogical and historical research into German speaking peoples. Should you have additional resources you believe we ought provides links to, please use our contact page to let us know. Useful German/Prussian resources are available as well on ManyRoads: Additional valuable and potentially relevant German Research links may be found in our: Austro-Hungarian Empire (Links) Shoah-Holocaust (Links) Switzerland (Links) WW1 & WW2 (Links) Primary Link List: 1914 -Detailfragen Bilder u. Dokumenten 1871-1929 Abkürzungen – Abbreviations (GenWIKI) Ahnenforschung.Net Alte Berufe – Old Occupations Alte Berufe – Old Occupations (Bielski) Alte deutsche Handschriften- Old German Handwriting Alte deutsche…

As you are hopefully aware, this small list is just the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully you will find this list as a useful place from which to begin your research. Concentration Camps Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp- database of guards and military, including their photographs Auschwitz Totenbuch (Death Book) Belzec Bergen-Belsen Buchenwald Dachau Drancy (France) Gross-Rosen Holocaust.cz Jasenovac concentration camp (Croatia) Mauthausen Ravensbrück Sachsenhausen Sewen Sobibor (nl) Sobibor (pl) Stutthof Wannsee Conference Ghettos Ghettos in Occupied Europe Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe Ghettos In The Holocaust Introduction: Ghettos in German Occupied Eastern Europe Jewish Ghettos in Eastern Europe Lodz Ghetto Lodz Ghetto street names The ghettos Warsaw Ghetto

Clinton County NY Genealogy Famous Americans Introduction to family history research in the United States (UNC) Iowa County History Maryland Genealogical Society Maryland Historical Society Maryland State Archives New Early Settlers of Maryland Query New England Historical Genealogical Register Online New England and New York Colonial American Genealogy, Ancestry and Family History Northern New York Tombstone Project The Society of Colonial Wars  in the State of Connecticut  

Archiwum Map Zachodniej Polski The Changing Borders of Europe Compare and Contrast Historical Maps of Europe David Rumsey Map Collection Emerson Kent Maps HARUS-ATLAS 1912 mit 24 Stadtkarten Hessenkarte Historic Map Works Historische Landkarten- Deutschland Historischen Landkarten Deutschlands und Ländern Europas HistoryGeo.com History of Europe How to Make Maps and Influence People Iowa Digital Library Atlases Karte des Deutschen Reichs- Maps of the German Empire Kartenmeister Landkarten Hamburg – Hamburg Maps Lithuanian Maps Mapire-synchronized maps of Europe Maps of Belarus Meyers Gazetteer Old Maps of Europe Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Persuasive Cartography -Atlas Obscura Persuasive Cartography- The PJ Mode Collection (Cornell Univ.) Sanbork Fire Insurane Maps (Library of Congress)  

Be advised that many of the texts in our libraries are printed in the original language of publication. This includes: German, English, French, etc. If you are uncomfortable operating in these languages consider using either online translation tools like Google Translate or hiring expert assistance. ManyRoads is happy to offer quotations for language translation. There are some 1500 texts in this area including materials from (click on the bullet items below for folder access):