From Lorelei Press
P.0. Box 221356, Sacramento, CA 95822-8356
A comprehensive resource for any German family history researcher to keep at hand every step of the way. With more than 600 pages of historical articles, photographs and illustrations, census data, publications, archive addresses, charts, tables and German-English translations, once you have it you won't be able to do without it.
Samples of topics included in The German Research Companion (this is not a complete list)
The German Länder (states)
Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon
German occupations/ translations
Common German maile/female given names
State archive addresses
Perpetual calendar for the last two decades
Emigration periods
Ellis Island, Castle Garden timelines
German civil registration dates by area
German government offices
European wars
German military records
Hessian troops in the American Revolution
Parish inventoires
Place-name endings, clues
German-Amricans, numbers in U.S.
Vocabulary for German political subdivisions
How to use German archives
German house-books
Early trades, occupations
Gregorian, Julian calendars
German units inthe American Civil War
German feast days
Topics covered in U.S. censuses
German probate records
German funeral sermons
Early German occupations
German city directories
Emigration ships
Statue of Liberty
German genealogy vocabulary
Occupations, Latin
Treaty of Versailles, provisions
Historical events affecting German genealogy
Use of Du and Sie
Ports of departure
Sister Cities
Der Schlüssel
Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
German telephone directories
Gazetteers by area
German prisoners of war in the United States
Military church books
Ahnenlistenkartei
Old universities
Passport applications, U.S.
German flag, history of
Family History Library Catalog
German towns over 100,000 populations in 1905
Locality indexes
German government structure
Deutsches biographisches Archiv
Guilds in Germany
Lineage books (Deutsches Geschlechterbuch)
Fraternal organizations
Works Progress Administration projects
“Pennsylvania Dutch”
Soundex code
Turn Verein movement
U. S. libraries
German courts
Non-population scheules
German family relationships
Periodical Source Index
Ahnentafel
Minerva Handbücher
German-American newspapers
U.S. German-related institutes
Chronology of German history
Early German railway lines
Major rivers of Europe
Berlin Document Center
Passenger departure lists
Jewish archives
Salzburgers to Georgia
U.S. Census abbreviations
Anabaptists
Oktoberfest
German holidays, observances
Religious sects in the U.S., Germany
Zentralstelle für genealogie, Leipzig
Redemptioners
German city directories
Shipping lines
Dewey Decimal System for German research
Hamburg passenger lists
Degrees granted by German universities
Query abbreviations
Passport applications
Money conversions
Old German currencies
Regional church archives
Time of day in German
Naming practices
Immigration/emigration
Germans to Russia
Naturalization laws chronology
Travel conditions on emigrant ships
Fahrenheit/Celsius conversions
Müllers Orts abbreviations
Non-political place names
Homestead Act of 1862
Familiengeschichtliche Quelle
Social Security, railroad retirement records
Land area terms
German newspapers
German Mennonites
U.S. Death Master File
Kilometers/miles conversions
County and land records
Germans from Bohemia
Publishers, U. S., German
Alsace-Lorraine research
Births, christenings, guardianship vocabulary
French genealogical terms
Pennsylvania research
German-American clubs
Placing queries in German publications
German medical terminology
Library of Congress
Stadtarchive, addresses of
Gauck Institute
German genealogical symbols
Ahnenstammkartei
Glossary of land terminology
Lutherans in USA
Cemeteries, funeral directors
Huguenots
Jewish names
Death vocabulary
German language reform
Swiss research
English language “vote”
Church archives
Causes of death
Poland historical dateline
Civil registration
German pietists
German zip codes
Marriages vocabulary
Communicating with Germany
American wars and military actions chronology
Austria chronology
West Prussia, East Prussia
German, Latin abbreviations
Lutheran/Catholic resources
Saints’ name days
German record types
German political subdivisions
German residency records (Melderegister)
Abbreviations on German maps
Heraldry
International Reply Coupons
German-interest periodicals
Rulers chronology
German-interest organizations