Records, Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes and Vital (Zivile Register und Weitere Register)

• Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records  Pay-for-use database containing 17,500 names of emigrants leaving Brandenburg. Each record provides the emigrant's name, age, occupation, residence, destination and year of emigration.
   
• Bremen Passenger Lists 1920 - 1939  Online searchable database of passenger lists.
   
• Bochumer Auswanderer-Brief-Sammlung. Collection of letters of German emigrants in North America written back to Germany from the years 1820-1914 at the University of Erfurt. (In German)
   
• Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank / German Emigrant Database 
  From the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven. Intends to provide a searchable database of all European emigrants who emigrated to North America from German ports between 1820 and 1939. Sources are passenger lists. Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee.
   
• Hamburg Link To Your Roots  Searchable database extracted from the Hamburg Passenger Lists for selected years.
   
• Emigration Port Hamburg  Excellent online presentation of why Hamburg was a major port of departure for immigrants, how the were treated, what they faced, and how the process of departure worked
   
• Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850–1934 Resource Guide 
   
• Historische Friedhöfe in Berlin / Historic Cemeteries in Berlin 
   
• ISTG - Bremen Departures  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild and Die Maus Genealogical Society of Bremen Germany.
   
• KinQuest.com : Genealogy Resources - German Family Register Extraction Form  Download a form to use when extracting information from family registers found in 19th Century German church record books.
   
• Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census Records 
   
• Names of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Emigrants 1844-1915 
   

Information and links to tracing services for locating German war dead.

• Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.  The German Military Grave Registration Service. Maintains 2 million war graves in over 640 cemeteries. Assists in grave identification and restoration. Provides assistance in determining the fate of German war dead.
   
• Vermissten und Toten Datenbank   The Missing and Dead Database. Online searchable database of over 2 million interments.