Discover your roots!This guide provides proven strategies for tracing your family history, whether it originates in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Alsace Lorraine, or other Germanic regions. From maps and translations to pedigree charts, inside you'll find the information you need, featuring basic instruction for gathering, verifying, recording and organizing your findings.Inside you'll find:a brief history of Germany and Germanic emigrationmethods of tracking down information here and abroadtechniques and translations for reading Germanic recordsGerman word lists including occupations, relationships and surnameslistings of German genealogical societies and archives