How to Use Meyers Gazetteer to Find German Places

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Genealogists searching for German ancestors have been handed a game-changing free tool: MeyersGaz.org, a digitized version of the Meyers Gazetteer. This free website, the result of 20-plus years of work by genealogist Marion Rainey and computer programmer Brad Coleman, has searchable data from the leading geographical dictionary of pre-WWI Germany. The Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon View Website VIP Subscription

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