{"id":6296,"date":"2018-02-19T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2018-02-19T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:51:08","slug":"ancestors-in-german-archives-a-guide-to-family-history-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"Ancestors in German Archives: A Guide to Family History Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Used books are a genealogist&#8217;s delight.\u00a0 This book has been on my radar for some time and while I&#8217;ve seen copies of it and used it before, I finally found one on\u00a0<em>Amazon.com\u00a0<\/em>that was a little easier on the budget. It should be particularly helpful now that I know where the majority of my German ancestors were from.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0806317477\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0806317477&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=7b49602ec43cb8fa2a3a5b90a38583d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancestors in German Archives: A Guide to Family History Sources<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0806317477\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0by Raymond S. Wright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back when I really only had one German area of concentration (Ostfriesland), I wasn&#8217;t quite as inclined to &#8220;take the plunge.&#8221; But now that I&#8217;ve identified where some of my other Germans are from, it&#8217;s time to expand my library. We&#8217;ll be writing about it more once it arrives. My copy is used&#8211;but that&#8217;s not a problem for me.<\/p>\n<p>Those just starting their German research may wish to take a look at either of these two recent publications (they are still in print and easier on the budget than Wright&#8217;s book):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gRIlHV\">The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by James Beidler<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hwhYeE\">Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by James Beidler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used books are a genealogist&#8217;s delight.\u00a0 This book has been on my radar for some time and while I&#8217;ve seen copies of it and used it before, I finally found one on\u00a0Amazon.com\u00a0that was a little easier on the budget. It should be particularly helpful now that I know where the majority of my German ancestors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}