Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites

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Click your way to German ancestors! Explore your Germanic heritage from the comfort of your own computer! Trace Your German Roots Online 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. Trace Your German Roots Online features- .Tips to find and use German databases, records, and research tools on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, and other popular genealogy websites .Guidance for helpful German-focused research websites, including help translating foreign-language sites .Recommended websites for accomplishing key German research tasks .Worksheets to log research progress and at-a-glance guides to help you identify important terms and resources An ideal companion to author James M. Beidler's The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide, this book has the tools you need to take your German genealogy research to the next level. Whether your ancestors came from Bavaria, Baden, Berlin, or Bremen, this comprehensive guide will help you find your German ancestors on the Internet.

James M. Beidler came by his German genealogy expertise honestly: It took him more than 20 years of searching to find any ancestry that wasn't from Germany! Beidler is the author of the Family Tree German Genealogy Guide (Family Tree Books, 2014), a columnist for German Life magazine, and a "go-to" expert for German genealogy articles and educational programs. Jim writes the award-winning weekly newspaper column "Roots & Branches"-the only syndicated genealogy feature in Pennsylvania-and edits Der Kurier, the quarterly journal of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society. Jim is a frequent contributor to periodicals ranging from The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine to Family Tree Magazine. His speaking credits include all the nation's largest genealogical conferences, as well as the Pennsylvania Humanities Council's acclaimed Commonwealth Speakers program from 2002 to 2009. Jim also teaches online courses and webinars for Family Tree University.