Printed Sources

In the following helpful sources are listed. Sometimes you have to know that a source just exists before you can search it. With these souces it should be possible to proof informations about a family you are looking for.

This list is not complete at all. In case you think a source should be named here just write an email.

• Ancestor lists circular & Ancestor lists index
• Emigrations from Germany
• Bibliography of printed middle-class familiy histories
• German Family Archive ("Deutsches Familienarchiv")
• German Lineage Book ("Deutsches Geschlechterbuch")   (SOON !)
• Faber ("Württembergische Familienstiftungen")
• Genealogical Research Directory
• Local Family Books ("Ortssippenbücher")

About 800 Ahnenlisten (ancestor lists) with about 150.000 surnames have been submitted for the Anextor lists circular (ALU). The summaries of these lists has been added to the Ancestor lists index (AK) (17 volumes). Ordered by surname you will find time, region, place and the address of the submitter.
As book you can get the AK in a book shop or perhaps at your local library. The AK has been published 1997 on a CD-ROM (more info about that CD coming soon).

At boarding the passengers and their data were registrated. Meanwhile there are many books with the passenger lists available:

• Germans to America. Lists of Passengeres Arriving at US Ports. Edited by Fra A. Glazier and P. William Filby. Scholary Resources Inc., 1988ff. [52 vols.]
• Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore 1820 - 1834. From Customs Passenger List. General Editor: Michael H. Tepper. Transcribed by Elizabeth P. Bentley. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982
• Pennsylvania German Pioneers. In two volumes. A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia. From 1727 to 1808. By Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL. D., President of the Pennsylvania German Society. Edited by William John Hinke, Ph. D., D.D., Second Printing. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1975.
• The Wurttemberg Emigration Index. By Trudy Schenk and Ruth Froelke. Ancestry Incorporated. Salt Lake City. Utah 1986 ff. [3 vols.]

For a description of "Germans to America", including a list of volumes published, see the account by Jim Eggert at http://www.genealogy.com/gene/www/emig/GermansToAmerica.html.
For a list of libraries known to hold copies of "Germans to America", see the account by Ernest Thode and Jim Eggert at http://www.genealogy.com/gene/www/emig/gta-holdings.html.
For reviews of "Germans to America", see http://www.genealogy.com/gene/www/emig/gta-revu.html (vols. 1-9 [1850-1855], by Michael Palmer) and http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nausa/pitfal.htm (by Prof. Dr. Antonius Holtmann of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Laura GENTNER DUNWALD (3l@grantspass.com) added Apr 4, 99:
Die Auswanderung aus Markgroeningen, Kreis Ludwigsburg
History, plus lists of emigrants including vitals on them, are found in this book by Hermann ROENMER.

These printings name sources in Württemberg and Baden (German Titles):

• Beuttenmüller, Otto. Bibliographie der gedruckten badischen bürgerlichen Familiengeschichten, 1. Teil (A-L), in: Schrifttumsbericht zur Genealogie und zu ihren Nachbargebieten, 6. Literaturbericht, Oktober 1968
• Beuttenmüller, Otto. Bibliographie der gedruckten badischen bürgerlichen Familiengeschichten, 2. Teil (M-Z), in: Schrifttumsbericht zur Genealogie und zu ihren Nachbargebieten, 7. Literaturbericht, Dezember 1968
• Beuttenmüller, Otto. Bibliographie der gedruckten württembergischen bürgerlichen Familiengeschichten, 1. Teil (A-G), in: Schrifttumsbericht zur Genealogie und zu ihren Nachbargebieten, 8. Literaturbericht, Juni 1970

The "Deutsches Familienarchiv" (German Family Archive) was founded in 1952 and lists links to Ancestor lists, Family histories, very often with historical and cultural-historical relatings, with references for bibliography and sources, coat of arms and some interesting details. Since the fifties 120 volumes have been published. About 80.000 surnames are collected in articles, ancestor tables and Ahnenlisten.
The registers for the German Family Archive you can get at a bookstore or perhaps in your local library (German Titles):

• Friedrichs, Heinz F. Gesamtregister zum Deutschen Familienarchiv. Bände 1-50. 2. Auflage. Neustadt an der Aisch: 1980. ISBN 3-7686-2025-5
• Friedrichs, Heinz F. Gesamtregister zum Deutschen Familienarchiv. Bände 51-75. Neustadt an der Aisch: 1981. ISBN 3-7686-2029-8
• Friedrichs, Heinz F. Gesamtregister zum Deutschen Familienarchiv. Bände 76-100. Neustadt an der Aisch: 1989. ISBN 3-7686-2047-6

In 1997 the Index for the volumes 1 - 119 has been published on a CD-ROM (more info about that CD coming soon).

The 'Faber' is a list of family foundations in Württemberg (German Titles).

• Die Württembergischen Familienstiftungen nebst genealogischen Nachrichten über die zu denselben berechtigten Familien, herausgegeben von Ferd. Friedr. Faber, Finanzrath in Stuttgart. Neudruck mit Berichtigungen von Adolf Rentschler, Pfarrer in Möglingen, herausgegeben vom Verein für württembergische Familienkunde, Stuttgart 1940.
• Nachtrag zu Ferd. Friedr. Fabers Württembergischen Familien-Stiftungen (die Stiftungen 106 bis 148 enthaltend). Herausgegeben vom Verein für württembergische Familienkunde Stuttgart (Heft 1 bis 2) und Verein für Familien- und Wappenkunde in Württemberg und Baden (ab Heft 4).
  • Erstes Heft: Stiftung 106-114. Verlag K. Ad. Emil Müller: 1926
  • Zweites Heft: Stiftung 115-125. Verlag Adolf Bonz & Comp.: 1938
  • Viertes Heft: Stiftung 126. C.A. Starke, Verlag: 1966
  • Fünftes Heft: Stiftung 127. Selbstverlag: 1976
  • Sechstes Heft: Stiftung 128. Selbstverlag: 1978
  • Siebtes Heft: Stiftungen 130-137 und Nachtrag zu Stiftung 128. Selbstverlag: 1980
  • Achtes Heft: Stiftungen 138-142. Selbstverlag: 1987

The Genealogical Research Directory (GRD) is published once a year. In the main chapter surnames are listed aplphabetical with the following: time period, place (town, county, province, state, country or land), name & address of the researcher. Beyond it addresses of genealogical societites are listed. Each researcher can publish for a small amount the names of the families, he is looking for.
You should get the book in bigger libraries. Bibliographical data (for 1986):

Johnson, Keith A. & Sainty, Malcom R. Genealogical Research Directory. National & International. ISBN 0 908120 56 1.

The "Ortssippenbuch" is a local family book. In there are all data about the persons, who lived in that place. Usually the book is ordered by surname and the data are out of the original sources (church books). At a glance you can get very easy and fast the data. The original sources are treated with care. For the area of Baden-Württemberg there are two series, the books for Baden and the Books for Württemberg.
Beneath the OSB there are "Dorfsippenbücher" (the title means the same, "Dorf" means a little village) also, mostly published during the Third Reich.

If your are looking for your roots you could spare with these books a lot of time and money. If you got german ancestors coming from Baden or Württemberg you should take a closer look at these books. See the List of OSB.

An index of surnames is being built these days: by surname you can get the Ortssippenbuch the surname can be found in. This index is not ready yet.