In Search of Your German Roots Genealogy Book

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In Search of Your  German Roots
Latest 4th Edition
Angus Baxter
Softbound Volume  totaling
127
pages.  Book is in excellent condition. Per the publisher;
This updated edition of
In Search of Your German Roots
is designed to help you trace your German ancestry; not only in Germany but in  all the German- speaking areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Crimea, from  the Czech Republic to Belgium. Like all books by Angus Baxter, it shows you how  to conduct your research by correspondence and e-mail; how to work in your own  home, at your computer, using the resources of libraries and archives or the  records of church and state.
Thanks to the Internet, it's much easier to search for your  German ancestors today than when the book was originally written. All of the  major archives and many of the smaller ones, as well as church parishes, have  websites containing contact information and information on their holdings.  Correspondence can now often be handled more quickly and less expensively via  e-mail. An ever increasing number of databases with information relevant to  German ancestor-hunters--passenger lists, cemetery records, surname directories,  etc.--has greatly improved opportunities for research.
While these developments in no way alter the nature of the  records or the research techniques described in this work, readers should be  aware that the growing list of websites, online databases, and CD-ROMs devoted  to German genealogy have made the task of locating your German ancestors  immeasurably easier.
This edition of the book includes website and e-mail  addresses whenever possible, covers the newest facilities and records available  to researchers, and lists the online resources that will be invaluable in your  search.
For example:
The Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 are now available    online.
Microfilms of the most comprehensive collection of Nazi    files are available for public search at the National Archives at College    Park, Maryland.
Digitized copies of the International Tracing Service's    records pertaining to Holocaust Victims are in the process of being    transferred to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
In 2005 the German Emigration Center opened in    Bremerhaven, and in 2007 it won the prestigious European Museum of the Year    Award.
The late Angus Baxter is also the author of
In Search of  Your British & Irish Roots
,
In Search of Your Canadian Roots
, and the  prize-winning
In Search of Your European Roots.
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Volume totaling
325
pages. Book is in new condition. Just what you need for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
In 1873, the Local Government Board in Ireland set about to ascertain the number and names of owners of land of one acre and upwards in Ireland. Clerks of the various Poor Law Unions were called upon to draw up lists of such persons from the property valuation and rate books in their custody. The lists were returned to the Local Government Board by the end of 1875, arranged into counties, alphabetized, and finally published in 1876 under the title
Return of Owners of Land of One Acre and Upwards, in the Several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland
. Since the returns include the names of small landowners as well as large-owners of modest acres as well as great estates-they stand as a census of a significant proportion of the population of Ireland in 1876 and no doubt contain the names of many people who were related to emigrants of an earlier period. (There were 32,614 owners of land of one acre and 36,144 owners of less than one acre, this latter group not named, of course.)
The returns are organized by provinces (Leinster, Munster, Ulster, and Connaught), then by counties, and thereunder alphabetically by the name of the landowner, giving his address, the extent of his property (acreage), and its valuation. The work constitutes an official inventory of land ownership and is in effect an 1870s-style
Domesday Book
for Ireland.
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