"For a war that was carried out over 200 years ago, a surprisingly large number of records has survived, even though highly destructive fires in 1800 and 1814 consumed many of those kept at a national level. Of the many records now available, a sizable fraction of them are fruitful sources of genealogical information. It is the purpose of this book to lead you to them and to assist you in extracting information on your ancestor(s) from them"--Introd....

"Designed to help recover the multigenerational facts of your ancestry, this book is an expansive guide to the most useful resources in each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Conducting research at a distance from the places one's ancestors lived can be quite a challenge. There still is no substitute for on-site research because not everything is, or probably ever will be, on microfilm, in print, or available through interlibrary...

Tells not only how and where to search, but what to do with the data accumulated. If one chapter leads to a deadend, the authors suggest other routes worth following.

This guide is a successor to Beginning Research in Germany, but it has been expanded to include three times as much information. Among the new or expanded features are: 1) Considerable more comprehensive and detailed information concerning the 24 European countries in which ethnic Germans lived. 2) A new chapter on religion, which is vitally important for tracing Germanic ancestors. 3) New chapters on personal names and place names to help you solve...