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This group was created for anyone interested in researching German Ancestry.

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Comment by Faith Lynette Steinhardt on September 5, 2009 at 7:37pm: I am looking 4 my grandmothersfamily name of Graffunder I am not sure just where in Germany her family came from.

Comment by Barbara Bradley Petura on September 5, 2009 at 1:19pm: I just learned of a great free online resource for German city directories - Die Datenbank historischer Adressbücher. Here is the URL for it as an active link:
http://www.adressbuecher.net/

You can read more about using this and other city directories in my group Finding Family For Free here at GenealogyWise. And in a posting at my blog showing how using City Directories can solve family mysteries!

Enjoy!

Comment by Susan Turner on September 4, 2009 at 6:32pm: Lisa Spegal...Thanks for that website, it is cool!

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on September 4, 2009 at 5:52pm: http://www.panoramio.com

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on September 4, 2009 at 5:51pm: If no-one's tried this before it's really neat, enter a town your ancestors were from or one nearby and it shows a map with photos from that area linked to places on map, you can see soem neat places as well as where they are located:

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on September 4, 2009 at 12:04am: darn it, it wouldn't make the link, you'll have to copy and paste, sorry!

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on September 4, 2009 at 12:04am: http://www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product_view.php?id=12

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on September 3, 2009 at 11:58pm: A friend just sent me this link, I thought it might be of interest to others in this group as well.

Comment by Karin Naylor on September 2, 2009 at 2:51pm: I don't know if anyone has previously posted this or not, but I found a very interesting and helpful site on German immigration to Pennsylvania, if you want to know what your relatives may have experienced. The link is http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=731
It is actually a course by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania with a lot of interesting reading material, such as Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750.