German and Schaumburg-Lippe Genealogical Sources

  • CompGen Germany’s Largest Association for Family Research

  • Schaumburg-Lippe, German Empire Genealogy on Family Search wiki.

  • Archivportal-D is a sub-portal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
    that offers you a comprehensive search for archives and archival records in Germany.

    With it you will find:

    • A comprehensive directory of German archival institutions

    • Descriptive information on the records of our data partner archives

    • Digitized copies of records of individual data partner archives

    • Online Collections on the topics of the "Weimar Republic" and "Compensation for National Socialist Injustice"

Ortsfamilienbuch (local family books)

General Links:

Niedersachsen:

  • Ortsfamilienbücher und Familiendatenbanken
    der Familienkunde Niedersachsen. Ein Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB) ist im Wesentlichen eine Zusammenstellung aller Familien und ihrer Personen eines Ortes oder einer Pfarrei, erstellt aus den Kirchenbüchern und weiteren Quellen.

Niedersachsen Familiendatenbank

Lectures by German Genealogical Researchers

FamilySearch

These are marriages in the 1820s that are documented by FHL film numbers becasue Ancestry.com has in its "Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929" database references (without any images) to these FHL film number.

German Genealogy Researchers

Transliteration of Kirchenbücher

Jürgen Sturma

Herr Sturma has been since 2021 the Heimatpfleger (city curator) for Minden and since 2005 for Leteln.

His webiste is: www.sturma-onlin.de. Links of interest: