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"For the Records" Articles

Issue Article Name
December 2021/January 2022 Local history sources for German genealogical research: Hofgeschichten, Häusergeschichten and Bürgerbücher
November 2019 Discovering the ancestral village in German Immigrants in American Church Records 
July 2019 St. Louis Germans and the Civil War in Missouri 
November 2018 Using Ancestry for German genealogical research
February 2018 Researching Alsace and Lorraine
October 2017 St. Louis Freie Gemeinde
October 2016  German Methodism 
July 2016 Austrian Exulanten in Franconia, Germany
June 2016 Finding your Ancestors in German Church Records 
March 2015 German churches in St. Louis, 1830 – 1900
February 2011 Deutsches Geschlechterbuch is an essential genealogical source
August 2010 Ortssippenbücher and other locale–specific sources are rich in genealogical data
January 2010 Deciphering death notices in German newspapers    
August 2009 Find German hometowns in the Special Collections Department