Understanding Meyers Orts - Translating Guide For The Directory Of The Towns and Places In The German Empire by Fay S. Dearden

All research in Germany depends on locating the birthplace of an ancestor. Although some of the old church and civil records of our German ancestors were lost, many duplicates were kept and taken to archives where they were later filmed by the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The LDS library has the world's largest collection of genealogical holdings. These holdings are organized in the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC).

Even though we can access volumes of genealogical information on computers now, we still need help to find our ancestor's birthplace. The FHLC's German collection is catalogued by parish or civil registry towns. If your town did not have its own parish or civil registry, the records could be in a nearby town or city. Meyers Orts Gazetteer is valuable because it lists about 200,000 places in the old German empire and information about the parish and civil registries of these places.

The German film collection is organized according to the political boundaries as they existed in the German Empire between 1871 and 1918. These divisions are listed in a locality and business gazetteer, Meyers Ortz published in 1012 is printed in an old Gothic typeface. This small book will help anyone reading the Meyers information.

When it comes to Understanding Meyers Orts this little book will be a big help.