Finding Your Village on a Map

 

Tips:

 

* Some small towns are now part of larger towns
* When searching for your village, be aware of letters that sound alike - g/k, d/t, b/p, etc. "Ober-kleen" in a church record may really be
"Ober-gleen."

 

Links:

* Search engine for online genealogy gazetteers

 

* Meyers gazetteer (free online from Ancestry.com)

 

* Online German map portal site

* Villages in Prussisa as of 1900