German Genealogy Cheat Sheet

German Genealogy

A Guide to Geography, Language and Records

Researching German ancestors? You'll want to keep this at-a-glance genealogy reference close at hand. The German Genealogy Cheat Sheet is designed to quickly deliver the information you need to understand the records of your German ancestors.

• German geography guide with a map showing historical borders; names of historical regions and modern German states; German words for administrative divisions; and a guide to German addresses
• quick guides to key German record groups
• German alphabet chart showing characters in the modern, Fraktur, Sütterlin and Kurrent writing styles
• language chart showing common words and symbols found in German genealogical records, along with their translations in English
• translation guide to months, plus cardinal and ordinal numbers
• resource list of essential websites and books for German genealogy research