The following is a listing of the German states (Bundesland) in which one of our ancestors was born, married, or died.   Each state is linked to the district (kreise) or locality (stadt), if known, in which the aforementioned events occurred. In addition each webpage contains a direct link to the Table of Contents of our Photograph and Image Galleries for many ancestral locations.

GERMANY

Baden-Wurttemburg

Bavaria (Bayern)

Hesse (Hessen)

Lower Saxony (Neidersachsen)

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz)

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BADEN-WURTTEMBURG

DISTRICT(Kreise): Gen-Site(s)

ENZ: Bauschlott;

ESSLINGEN: Hegensberg; Oberesslingen; Bonlanden;

HEILBRONN: Lehrensteinsfeld; Kirchardt; Tiefenbach

KARLSRUHE:  Blankenloch;  Neureut;  Oberacker;  Staffort;  Sulzfeld; Unterowisheim

REUTLINGEN: Bad Urach; Dettingen an der Erms; Eningen

RHEIN-NECKAR: SINSHEIM-Hoffenheim;  ANGLEBACHTAL-Michelfeld;  DIELHEIM-Unterhof;  EBERBACH

BAVARIA

 (Bayern)

DISTRICT(Kreise): Gen-Site(s)

DILLINGEN: Dillingen; Hochstadt

DONAU-RIES: Nördlingen

ERLANGEN: Erlangen

HESSE  

(Hessen)

DISTRICT(Kreise): Gen-Site(s)

BERGSTRASSE:  Igelsbach;   Nieder Liebersbach;   Zwingenberg

DARMSTADT-DIEBURG: Pfungstadt; Seeheim

DARMSTADT: Eberstadt

MAIN-TAUNUS:

LOWER SAXONY

  (Neidersachsen)

DISTRICT(Kreise): Gen-Site(s)

BRAUNSCHWEIG: Braunschweig

RHINELAND-PALATINATE

(Rheinland-Pfalz)

DISTRICT(Kreise): Gen-Site(s)

BAD KREUZNACH: Lettweiler;  Meisenheim

SUDWESTPFALZ: Hornbach; Thaleischweiler;  

VULKANEIFEL: Esch

ZWEIBRUCKEN: Rimchweilwer; Zweibrücken

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·        Directory of Cities and Towns in World

·        Foreign Place Names Search (USGS-GNIS)

Germany

·        Directory of Cities, Towns, & Regions in Germany

·        List of places in Germany

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