Archion is a cooperative project among the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the majority of regional protestant churches in Germany. Their database is being continually expanded, supplemented and updated, and new digitized church records from across Germany as well as the former eastern areas of Germany are being added every day. There is a fee structure to download records, but you can check their holdings without paying a fee.

The State Archives of Baden-Württemberg contains eight divisions located in Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Sigmaringen, Kornwestheim, Wertheim, and Neuenstein. The States Archives secures the written history of B-W as part of our cultural heritage and the culture of remembrance, preserves it, and makes it accessible to every interested party. At the same time, the State Archives also works actively to research and communicate the history of South-West Germany.

LEO-BW offers free access to high-quality information, multimedia, further resources, and literature from and about Baden-Wuerttemberg. You can find a variety of regional-related information from different sources all in one search.

A meta search page of databases maintained by the Verein für Computergenealogie where you can search for your German ancestors. From here you can follow links to other helpful pages of information on the CompGen site. The site is in German, but Google translate works well here.

Arcinsys Hessen – the archival information system of the Hessen Federal State Archives and other archives in Hessen. Developed in cooperation with the federal states of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) and Schleswig-Holstein. It is a common system for users and employees and it covers the full range of offers and functions of the archives.

Here you can find church registers (mostly books of birth, marriage and death) from various European countries (currently Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia).