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Stolberg (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɔlbɛʁk], Ripuarian: Stolbersch) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has a long history as an industrial town and belongs to the district Aachen and the lower district court of Eschweiler.
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- www.MeyersGaz.org. “For years, novice genealogists who found themselves embarking on the road of German genealogy were discouraged when needing to decipher an entry for their town in Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-lexikon des deutschen Reichs (commonly known simply as Meyers or Meyer’s Gazetteer of the German Empire) due to the old German font in which the book was printed and the plethora of abbreviations that were used.
- Kartenmeister. “Kartenmeister is a database for towns which are found east of the Oder and Neisse rivers in the former German Empire provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, and Silesia.
- Lost Shoebox. “This website is an index to 17 websites focused on research in Poland. The list of websites corresponds with a map of Poland divided into its various modern provinces.
- Archion ($) The major Protestant denomination of Germany—a loose union of more than a dozen state-based church organizations, collectively called Evangelisch—has undertaken a state-of-the-art digitization program.
- Matricula. Accessing records for Germany’s other major Christian confession, Roman Catholicism, used to be an exercise in “downpour or drought.” Some were available on FamilySearch.org and/or in the Family History Library (see website No. 3), but many were simply off-limits.
- FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (through its Family History Library and FamilySearch website) has long provided steady “sunshine” for German genealogists.
- Ancestry.com ($) Ancestry.com has quite a number of American church records collections for ethnic German congregations, including Historical Society of Pennsylvania collections as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America registers.
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Places to Find German Genealogy Records and Databases Online. General FamilySearch Genealogy Records - Germany (requires free registration; to view some of the images you must be at an LDS Family History Center or a FamilySearch affiliated library). Includes some German baptism, marriage, and death indexes, and other items.
