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    GERMAN GENEALOGY

    Aug 18, 2020 6 minutes
    JAMES M. BEIDLER AND THE EDITORS OF FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE

    Geography Guide

    Source: Wikimedia Commons. User: kgberger, based on work from User: Wiggy!. Reproduced under CC BY-SA 3.0.

    PRESENT-DAY GERMAN STATES

    HISTORICAL REGIONS

    ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

    GERMAN ADDRESSES

    Fr. Anna Schmidt Aachener-Str. 42 69115 Karlsruhe Germany

    honorific street-house number postal code-town country

    GERMAN ALPHABET CHART

    • Fraktur: a type of German lettering used from the 15th century until World War II. Fraktur lettering is often compared to the Old English Gothic typeface

    • Sütterlin: a German script created by graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin and taught from 1915 to 1941 in German schools

    • Kurrent: a popular handwriting style found in German documents from the 16th through 18th centuries, also called Old German Script.

    Get more help reading old German records <www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/6-websites-for-old-german-script>.

    RECORDS QUICK GUIDE

    CIVIL REGISTRATION

    • Dates: 1792 (some areas); 1876 (Empire-wide).

    • Births (110 years after

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