Helpful Links

German-American Heritage Museum Everybody Has a Story Project. For more information and to start the Oral History Project please follow this link  https://gahmusa.org/oral-history-project-everybody-has-a-story/ 

CD/DVD cataloging program called NeoFinder (for Macs) or abeMeda (for Windows). Written by a developer from Langenhahn, Germany, this software is the simplest and cheapest digital asset management program on the market. The cost is $39.99 which is quite inexpensive for something this comprehensive and useful. Users are given the opportunity to download a fully functional version and use it in demo mode: www.cdfinder.de - Mac version; www.cdwinder.de - PC version.

It works easily and flawlessly by letting the user start the program, set some simple variables, insert a CD/DVD that you'd like to scan and catalog and ejects it to move on to another. After you finish cataloging your media, the database is then searchable, making this truly a great cataloging and search program.

Currency translator - updated each day: http://www.xe.com/ict/table.cgi

Symbols found in German church books for birth, death, marriage, etc.: http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Genealogische_Symbole_und_Zeichen

Letter writing samples: http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/letters/let-pas.html

Search Engines: http://clusty.com/ and http://gigablast.com/

To find websites of German towns, use "http: // www. (name of town).de"

For example try: http://www.Berlin.de

German telephone book: http://www.dastelefonbuch.de

German food: http://germanfood.org

Fed. of East European Family History Soc.: http://www.feefhs.org

Genealogy.net with lots of links to other pages: http://www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html

Regional research in German speaking countries: http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/regio.htm

German town/village locator (information returned by email): http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/geoserv.html

World GenWeb: http://www.worldgenweb.org

Germany GenWeb Project: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wggerman/

Internet sources for German Genealogy: http://www.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/edatbase.htm

German Embassy in Washington DC:  https://www.germany.info/us-en/embassy-consulates/embassy-washington 

Map search with weather report: http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/gbr/tpl/hme/MaHomePage.htm

Map search: http://www.multimap.com

Check to see who is working on the same surnames: http://www.geneanet.org

Looking for used books or a list of possible titles on a subject: http://www.buchhandel.de

Dictionary which even pronounces it for you in phrases: http://dict.leo.org

Dictionary similar to the one above: http://www.dict.cc

Some interesting articles and links: http://www.progenealogists.com/resources.htm

General genealogy site listings: http://www.cyndislist.com

German food and gifts:  https://www.bavariasausage.com/ 

Bible restoration: http://gbbookman.biz/