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History

German geographic regions links to very helpful geographic information

Adalbert Goertz's Regional German FAQs Great site with excellent history and genealogy answers about the areas of Baden, Böhmen, Brandenburg, Deutschland (Germany), Elsass-Lothringen, Mähren, Ost Preußen, Pommern, Posen, Preußen, Rheinhessen, Rheinpfalz, Schlesien, Westfalen, West Preußen. (In English)

Index to States, Provinces, and Regions of Germany

Germany Country Studies

Genealogy

Excerpts from Correspondence With Pastor Ronald Lommel, the Lutheran Parish Nieder-Gemünden, Hesse by Henry Fischer

Finding the Origins of 18th-century Emigrants From Southern Germany
by Friedrich R. Wollmershäuser

Internet Sources of German Genealogy

European Migration & Your Family Origins

Search surnames, town in Germany - Eduard Pesé 

FEEFHS Surname Databases

Credits and Notes:
2006 population statistics. 
List of Cities via Deutschland-Navigator.
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