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MAPS

German genealogy can be hard to visualize. With Germany’s many border changes over the centuries (and its historic lack of centralization), you might have trouble tracking your ancestors Heimat across the years. This section features a number of maps that will help you identify what resources may be available for your ancestors.

The maps included in this appendix (in order) are

• a map of modern Catholic dioceses and archdioceses that you can contact for church records
• maps of modern German Länder with both German and English names that you can contact for civil records
• a map of Germany shortly after unification in 1871
• a map showing which Protestant churches are participating in Archion’s Kirchenbuchportal project (see chapter 8)

You can find more historical maps online at David Rumsey Map Collection <www.davidrumsey.com> and the Library of Congress <www.loc.gov/maps>.

CATHOLIC DIOCESES IN MODERN GERMANY

MODERN GERMAN LÄNDER, GERMAN NAMES

MODERN GERMAN LÄNDER, ENGLISH NAMES

GERMANY AFTER UNIFICATION, 1871

By ziegelbrenner [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

ARCHION KIRCHENBUCHPORTAL PARTICIPANTS