One of the reasons we prioritized German-American church records in Part 2 of this series was that church records may have been the one place where our German immigrant’s name would have been recorded accurately by a German speaker (i.e. their minister). Most of the time, however, our Germans needed...

Are you one of the 44.2 million Americans with a German ancestor? Whether your ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch who arrived in the 18th century, part of the tidal wave of Germans arriving in the 19th century, came in the 20th century, or never left at all, the virtual International German...