France
Genealogical Word Lists - German French Latin
Latin-English Dictionary - Online
French Republican Calendar - Use to convert from Napoleon dates to the Gregorian Calendar
German Empire - General Tools
Germany Genealogy Internet Portal - German genealogy site
Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg - Digital images of some parish registers
Telephone Directory - Modern Germany
Online Ortsfamilienbücher (Online Heritage Books)
Handwriting Sample in Wiki
Handwriting (Click on Examples Box)
Surname Distribution Map of Germany
Translator - Translate from a foreign language to English
German Empire - Gazetteers for Finding Church and Civil (Vital) Records Localities
Meyers Gazetteer - Main gazetteer of localities and maps of the former German Empire
Kartenmeister - Scroll down the site to find field boxes (not complete, but valuable)
Baden - Gives localities of churches in Baden
Berlin and Brandenburg - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
East Prussia - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Hannover - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Hessen - Begin with image 519
Hessen-Nassau - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Hohenzollern - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Mecklenburg - Book images start at image 389
Pomerania - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Posen - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Rhine Province - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries. Eifel Region of the Rhine Province - Birth and Marriage Search by town - by Tom Pick - (Does not include all localities in the Eifel Region.)
Saxony (Kingdom)
Saxony (Province in Prussia) - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Schleswig-Holstein - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Silesia - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Westphalia, Waldeck, and Pyrmont - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
West Prussia - A province in Prussia - Ancestry is a premium site, but is available for free at many libraries
Poland - General Tools
Genealogical Word Lists - German Latin Polish Russian
Poznan Project - Database
Lublin Roots - Scroll the page for the parishes
Poland - Gazetteers
Deutsch-fremdsprachiges (fremdsprachig-deutsches) Ortsnamenverzeichnis. This locality name-change gazetteer is for areas lost from Germany to Poland after WWI, such as Posen, and further north.
Amtliches Gemeinde- und Ortsnamenverzeichnis der deutschen Ostgebiete unter fremder Verwaltung - for Schlesien (Silesia), which German lost after WWI. You may find this at family history centers on LDS microfiche 6053256 (not yet digitized). This type of gazetteer shows that Falkowitz, Kreis Oppeln, Silesia became “Germanized” to Falkendorf during the Hitler era, then changed to Fałkowice, Opole, Poland after WWII.
Kartenmeister - scroll the page and enter German or Polish info into appropriate field - incomplete.
Spis miejscowości Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej is the standard gazetteer for Poland, used by catalogers at the Family History Library. It does not give parish jurisdictions.
Słownik geograficzny królestwa polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskych lists localities.
Skorowidz miejscowości rzeczypospolitej polskiej - Poland between WWI and WWII
Poland - Maps
Central Europe - Grid map shows main cities (use gazetteers to determine higher locality jurisdiction), then check grid map
Meyers Gazetteer - Type in former German name of the locality
Online modern map of Poland - Type in locality in the search box
Slovenia
Switzerland
United Kingdom & Ireland
GENUKI - UK and Ireland Genealogy