Germanic Genealogy Society

09/04/2026

Wonderful resource! And Germanic Genealogy Society has a section in the same library -- one stop research!

Some stories have been waiting almost 100 years to be found. Come find yours at the Hoffman Research Library. What's the oldest record you've ever discovered? 👇

08/27/2026

We at the Germanic Genealogy Society would like to follow up with everyone who joined us for our recent Matricula webinar with Thomas Aigner on August 20. Unfortunately, a technical problem affected both the start time and the delivery of the presentation and we apologize that the experience did not meet our usual standards.

Thomas delivered interesting and valuable information about Matricula and other International Centre for Archival Research (ICARUS) projects. We know this was frustrating. We greatly appreciate the patience and graciousness of our audience and thank you for understanding.

We look forward to continuing our webinar programming to bring you outstanding speakers and topics. Stay tuned!

08/20/2026

Reminder! Our free webinar is today at 1:00 pm Central with Thomas Aigner of the website Matricula, one of the largest collections of German language parish records!

08/06/2026

Have German, Austrian, or other Central European ancestors? 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Join us for a free webinar on Matricula--one of Europe's premier online collections of church records. Register Today and join us on August 20, 1:00 pm to 2:15! https://ggsmn.org/eventListings.php?nm=38&tf=1

07/27/2026

Come one, come all! Join us in person or online to talk about heritage travel! We have speakers with travel experiences followed by an open forum! For Zoom link go to: https://ggsmn.org/eventListings.php?nm=38&tf=1

07/07/2026

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06/29/2026

Are you still waiting for your ancestral parish to come online -- or to be indexed? Here is Archion's www.archion.de latest update (and I personally am excited to see the Nuremberg indexes -- I found some records already going page by page, but I will be looking for more and what I missed -- with the index!) Now Online

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers: More than 200 new church registers from the Herzberg and Buxtehude church districts
Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau
More than 200 additional church registers from 14 parishes
Archiv der Evangelischen Landeskirche Anhalts
More than 100 church registers from 14 locations Bistumsarchiv Trier: Church registers from the towns of Dreis and Weiler near Bingen

Currently Being Imported

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern church record indexes (Kirchenbuchverkartungen) from Nuremberg

Familienforschung mit Archion. Herzlich willkommen! Forschen Sie auf Archion online in Kirchenbüchern. Hier finden Sie aktuell mehr als 175 000 digitalisierte Kirchenbücher aus 25 deutschen Archiven für Ihre quellenbasierte Familienforschung. Der Bestand wird täglich ergänzt. Archion enthält ....

05/06/2026

Learn how to find and use German Protestant church records! Details here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1GsWSnaziH/

05/04/2026

With our Archion webinar coming up, this is a good time to share their latest update on recent additions to their database:

Landeskirchenarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche Mitteldeutschland/Magdeburg
nearly 300 church books from the Henneberger Land church district

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern more than 300 church books from 50 parishes

Evangelisches Archiv Baden und Württemberg/Baden
family registers from four parishes

Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche der Pfalz
church books from 30 parishes

04/29/2026

A Webinar Well Worth the Wait!
(Webinar originally scheduled for February)

Tune in on May 7th @ 1pm CT to hear former GGS President Barbara Pieh explain how and why to use Archion.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1GsWSnaziH/