{"id":1018,"date":"2022-03-31T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rita-dachner.com\/?page_id=1018"},"modified":"2025-04-10T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:50:36","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arin-dachner.com\/en\/translating-your-old-german-documents\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finding records<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Many German church records are available in online databases. Unfortunately they are not searchable, but only available as scans you need to go through manually. You&#8217;ll find the Catholic church&#8217;s database at <a href=\"https:\/\/data.matricula-online.eu\/de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/data.matricula-online.eu\/de\/<\/a> (free to use; incomplete &#8211; more records are constantly added) and the Evangelic church&#8217;s database at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archion.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.archion.de\/<\/a> (paid service; also includes many military church records as well as records of some Jewish communities). You can ask me when you need help finding something. In general, there are only records left from rather few Jewish communities, and, as far as I know, there is unfortunately no separate database to look them up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you are looking for documents from formerly German regions in the East, you may try to find something in the Polish archives. They have a shared database: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl\">Szukaj w Archiwach<\/a>, where you can also look for German terms and names. Usually, you will not find any civil registry documents there, but rather things like land registries, court documents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-opt-id=211143788  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/mliqe6kzzid7.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/arin-dachner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Beispiel_Trauungen.png\" alt=\"This picture shows a part of a page from a German church book, containing parts of several marriage entries from the 1830s.\" class=\"wp-image-1179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mliqe6kzzid7.i.optimole.com\/w:1001\/h:525\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/arin-dachner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Beispiel_Trauungen.png 1001w, https:\/\/mliqe6kzzid7.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:157\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/arin-dachner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Beispiel_Trauungen.png 300w, https:\/\/mliqe6kzzid7.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:403\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/arin-dachner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Beispiel_Trauungen.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Generally useful links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you come to my site, you probably already know a lot about genealogical research. So I&#8217;ll only put a few links together that you might not have considered yet as being useful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historical address books from Berlin: <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.zlb.de\/viewer\/cms\/155\/\">https:\/\/digital.zlb.de\/viewer\/cms\/155\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jewish holidays for any given year: <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishholidaysonline.com\/\">http:\/\/jewishholidaysonline.com\/<\/a> (very useful when you have an undated letter in which a holiday is mentioned)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A detailed timeline of World War I: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldhistory\/firstworldwar\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldhistory\/firstworldwar\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A detailed timeline of the Holocaust, with all prohibitions etc.: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldwar2\/holocaust\/timeline.html\">http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldwar2\/holocaust\/timeline.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding records Generally useful links When you come to my site, you probably already know a lot about genealogical research. So I&#8217;ll only put a few links together that you might not have considered yet as being useful: Historical address books from Berlin: https:\/\/digital.zlb.de\/viewer\/cms\/155\/ Jewish holidays for any given year: http:\/\/jewishholidaysonline.com\/ (very useful when you &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Resources\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/arin-dachner.com\/en\/translating-your-old-german-documents\/resources\/#more-1018\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resources<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":265,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"parvati_pageheader":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1018","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Resources - 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