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Baden-Württemberg is one of
the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the
southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine. The state capital is
Stuttgart.
The area used to be covered by the historical states of Baden,
including the former Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg,
part of the region of Swabia. The sobriquet Ländle ("small land" in the local dialect) is
sometimes used as a synonym for the Swabian part of Baden-Württemberg. After World War II, Allied forces
established three federal states: Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Baden, and Württemberg-Baden. In 1949, these three states became founding
members of the Federal Republic of
Germany. After a referendum
held on 16 December 1951, Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern and Baden voted in favour of a merger. Baden-Württemberg officially became a
state on 25 April 1952. Baden-Württemberg shares its borders
with France, Switzerland, Rhineland
Palatinate, Hesse
and Bavaria. Most of the major cities of
Baden-Württemberg straddle the banks of the Neckar River,
which runs downstream (from southwest to the centre, then northwest) through
the state first past Tübingen, then Stuttgart,
Heilbronn,
Heidelberg,
and Mannheim). The Rhine (German: Rhein) forms the western border as well as large portions
of the southern border. The Black Forest
(Schwarzwald), the main mountain range of the
state, rises east of the Rhine valley. The high plateau of the Swabian Alb,
between the Neckar, the Black Forest and the Danube, is an important European
watershed. Baden-Württemberg shares Lake Constance (Bodensee; the border with Switzerland is the middle of the lake)
with Switzerland and it shares the foothills of the Alps (known as the Allgäu) with Bavaria and the Austrian Vorarlberg
(but Baden-Württemberg does not border Austria over land). The Danube (Donau) river has its source in Baden-Württemberg near the
town of Donaueschingen, in a place called Furtwangen in the Black Forest. |
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Surname
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The following are
surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having
been either born, married or
died in this ancestral location. Names in dark red
denote direct ancestral lines. |
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Geisler;
Gilbert; Goble; Sonst; Staley |
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Bader; Bannheurs; Barth; Baumgärtner; Beck;
Becker; Beissel/Beyssel; Boll;
Born; Cammerer; Dellinger;
Doll; Ernst; Gamer; Gilbert; Gossner/Goschner; Haas; Hauer; Haug; Heidecker; Helcker;
Herzog; Heyd; Horch; Katterman; Kausch;
Kern; Ketterman; Kiefer/Kieffer;
Klein; Knoetzele; Kolb;
Laux; Longenecker; Meinzer;
Meyer; Muller/Müller; Nagel; Precht; Rottenhauser; Rüdinger; Ruppert; Sauers; Schall/ Shaul; Schieck; Schmid; Schon; Stober; Weber;
Zeiter |
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Click on this link to find out more about each surname listed
above as well as other surnames found within our three family databases. |
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This link will also lead you to surname resources at Rootsweb, and information about
the world-wide distribution of a surname. |
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Use this free genealogy site to help
you get the best
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that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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The world’s largest free genealogy search engine,
Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free genealogy content
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including
billions of names, dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and
make searchable all of the world’s free genealogy information. |
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Click
on the LINK to the right to see more
information about the World distribution of any surname. You can get greater |
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detail
for any of the maps by clicking on the area, i.e
state, county that you are interested in. |
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Use the “verwandt.de“ LINK to find specific information about the distribution of
over one million names in Germany. A color-coded map showing all of the
districts (kries) in Germany will |
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display the absolute distribution of names in a county, as well as the relative
distribution of that name indicating how many persons there are in proportion
to the population of a county. |
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research location
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Enz (9); Esslingen (10); Heilbronn (14); Karlsruhe (16); Reutlingen (26); Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (27) See Below
For Complete Listing Of Numbered Districts. |
Our Ancestral
Districts
The following named districts are associated
with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a specific ancestral county, go
to our ANCESTRAL
LOCATIONS home page. Here you will
find additional links to our district pages where you can obtain information
about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in
our database, who have lived in the selected district. To find out more about
each county listed here use the following LINK
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County Research (General)
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Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project
based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link
(below) will take you to the Wikipedia article about the county. Here you will find additional links to
guide the user to related pages with additional information. |
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Baden-Württemberg is divided into 35 districts (Landkreise) and 9 independent cities (Stadtkreise), both grouped into the four Administrative Districts (Regierungsbezirke |
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Furthermore there are nine independent cities,
which do not belong to any district, they are: Baden-Baden; Freiburg; Heidelberg; Heilbronn; Karlsruhe; Mannheim; Pforzheim; Stuttgart; Ulm |
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Gazetteer of Places
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· Geography of Baden-Württemberg |
· Villages in Baden-Württemberg · Cities and Communes in Baden-Württemberg ·
Baden-Württemberg Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers |
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societies
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Verein für Familien-
und Wappenkunde in Württemberg und Baden e. V. |
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Internet resources
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The Google search
engine button and following web sites may
provide you with |
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additional information to assist with your research about this
Ancestral Location. |
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·
Germany Research – Genealogy.net ·
German
Genealogy Resources – Genealoger ·
German Genealogy & Family History Resources ·
Online German Genealogy
Records & Databases ·
German Genealogy Resources
on the Internet ·
Basic Research Outline for
German Genealogy ·
Historical Record Search:
Germany ·
German Genealogy Info. &
Resources |
· SGGEE -German genealogy in eastern Europe ·
Ancestry.com Germany Data Base Collections($) ·
World Archives Project: Deutsche Artikel |
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Locality Specific Resources
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·
Baden-Württemberg –
Genealogy.net ·
Baden-Württemberg – Gen Wiki ·
Baden-Württemberg – Germany
Gen Web Project |
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Baden,
Germany/Prussia Genealogy Forum ·
Ancestry.com Data
Collections: Baden-Württemberg ($) |
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