Resources

Irish–Danish–German Heritage

Genealogy

FamilySearch —free, downloadable images; some images require registration; Historical Record Collections, Learning Center
Ancestry.com —subscription; free surname meanings, Family History Wiki
Findmypast —subscription
Cyndi’s List —Genealogy links

CastleGarden.org —free; no images
The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation —free, registration required; cost for large images
Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865–1922 —on Library and Archives Canada site; free search by ship and date not person; images
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships —on Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy
Passenger lists and Emigrant ships from Norway-Heritage
Ship Descriptions —on TheShipsList
Ship Histories —on The Great Ocean Liners
Passenger Ship Index —on MaritimeQuest
Index —on Great Ships
History of Hapag–Lloyd —downloadable PDF of History of Germany’s now-merged steamship companies: the Hamburg America Line (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft [Hapag]) and North German Lloyd (Norddeutscher Lloyd [NDL])

USGenWeb Project —free genealogy sites by state and county
Clues in Census Records, 1850–1940 —on United States National Archives and Records Administration site
1940 Census: Official 1940 Census Website —on United States National Archives and Records Administration site; search by census enumeration district via maps
Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790–1990 —(PDF) on United States Census Bureau site (text spreadsheet of United States and state data; text spreadsheet of state and county data)
Resident Population Data (Text Version) —on United States Census Bureau site; 1910–2010 United States Census population and percentage change for United States and its states
Population Change for Counties in the United States and for Municipios in Puerto Rico: 2000 to 2010 —(PDF) on United States Census Bureau site

Irishgenealogy.ie —free records search site by Irish government’s Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Family History Research —on The National Library of Ireland site; free; Catholic parish registers by diocese with downloadable images
Genealogy —on The National Archives of Ireland site; free
Irish Ancestry Search —on The Irish Times site; free
RootsIreland —subscription
Irish Surnames —on Behind the Name
Irish Names —on Behind the Name (given names)
Ireland Genealogy —on FamilySearch
Northern Ireland Genealogy —on FamilySearch
Irish Genealogy Toolkit —free
Genealogy websites —links on The National Archives of Ireland site

Danish Family Search —free; downloadable images
The Danish Emigration Archives —Danish emigration records including Danish town of residence, foreign-destination city, and ship name if departing from Copenhagen directly; no images [new site for same database but with Danish category names: Copenhagen Police Emigration Protocol]
Danish Surnames —on Behind the Name
Surnames —on Nordic Names
Danish Names —on Behind the Name (given names)
Danish Names —on Nordic Names (given names)
Denmark Genealogy —on FamilySearch
Denmark Census —on FamilySearch
Denmark Christening Word List —on FamilySearch
Danish Word List —on FamilySearch (as PDF)
Danish - English Dictionary of Some Genealogy and Cemetery Words, Phrases, and Abbreviations
Scandinavian Gothic Alphabet Samples (PDF) —on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints site (via Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records Lesson 1: Scandinavian Gothic Letters on FamilySearch)
Genealogy Links —on Museum of Danish America

German Emigrants Database —German emigration records for the Ports of Bremen (1820–1897, 1904, and 1907) by Historisches Museum Bremerhaven [Historical Museum of Bremerhaven]; cost for complete data record
German Surnames —on Behind the Name
German Names —on Behind the Name (given names)
Germany Genealogy —on FamilySearch
Austria Genealogy —on FamilySearch
Hungary Genealogy —on FamilySearch
Research in the Austro-Hungarian Empire —on FamilySearch
Handwriting Guide: German Gothic (PDF) —on FamilySearch (via Germany Handwriting)
Alte Deutsche Handschrift ~ Old German Handwriting —on Donauschwaben [Danube Swanbian] Villages Helping Hands
German Alphabet Types (PDF) —on Germanic Genealogy Society site (via Gothic Script)
Old German Professions and Trade Names —on George W. Durman’s Germanna Colonies Family History
Symbols & Abbreviations [used in church records] —on Donauschwaben [Danube Swanbian] Villages Helping Hands
Banat Village List —on Donauschwaben [Danube Swanbian] Villages Helping Hands
Donauschwaben Village List Index —on GenWiki
Donauschwaben in the Banat, Including the Arader Land —on GenWiki
The Dreyer Databases - David Dreyer’s Extractions of Emigration from the Banat Region of Eastern Europe —Austria–Hungary emigrant lists:
- Surname (e.g., Marth [Märth = Merth], Ruff)
- Banat village (e.g., Banat Brestowatz, Ploschitz)
- North American destination (e.g., Turtle Lake, WI)
- Ship (e.g., SS Breslau, SS Neckar)

Google Books —you can download PDF
Internet Archive —with digital books you can download PDF or enlarge page, right click, and save page as image
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers —on United States Library of Congress site
Google News Archives —United States and foreign newspapers
The Online Books Page: Serials —on University of Pennsylvania Libraries site; indexes to digitized periodicals, e.g.:
- Harper’s Magazine (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Harper’s Monthly Magazine) volume index
- Harper’s Weekly volume index
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog —on United States Library of Congress site
Maps & Geography —on United States Library of Congress site
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Victorian Trade Cards: The Charles and Laura Dohm Shields Trade Card Collection —on Miami University [Ohio] Libraries site
Perry-Castañeda Library, Map Collection — on the University of Texas Libraries–The University of Texas at Austin site
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection —images under Creative Commons license for noncommerical use only
Historic Map Works —free viewing of United States property atlases (plat books) and other old maps; cost to download image or to order a print
Wikimedia Commons —many images in public domain or under Creative Commons licenses; maps: