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One search box — archive databases: Arcinsys (Hesse, Lower Saxony+Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein+MV), Kalliope, Matricula, German Digital Library, DNB, ZDB, Internet Archive, Bildindex (Foto Marburg)

Tip: family name (e.g. Hübinger), place (e.g. Braunfels) or topic (e.g. Ziegelei — brickworks) — typos are detected and corrected automatically
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The databases

Archives · 3

Arcinsys Hessen

174,000+ records: Hessian State Archives Marburg & Darmstadt, Wiesbaden Main State Archive, municipal and district archives

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Arcinsys Niedersachsen + Bremen

355,000+ records: Lower Saxony State Archives (Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Stade, Wolfenbüttel …), Bremen State Archive

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Arcinsys Schleswig-Holstein + MV

71,000+ records: State Archives of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Schwerin, Greifswald …)

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Parish registers · 1

Matricula-Online

Parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials) — find a parish, open books directly

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Estate papers & letters · 1

Kalliope-Verbund

Estate papers (Nachlässe), autographs and letters across Germany — official search API

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Libraries & digitised media · 5

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

65 million objects nationwide: books, images, archive records, newspapers, music — catalogue of cultural institutions

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

All German publications since 1913 + local family books — official SRU

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Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

1.9 million journals and newspapers worldwide — the largest collection of its kind

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Internet Archive

Scanned books with full-text search (OCR), audio and video — 20 million texts

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Hessische Bibliographie

Regional studies literature: local chronicles, person-related literature, articles (LAGIS)

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Art & architecture · 1

Bildindex (Foto Marburg)

1.9 million photos of art and architecture — Braunfels Castle, churches, monuments

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Example searches

Braunfels
in all databases at once
Weidenhausen
Marburg district — plans, maps, records
Hübinger
Family name across all sources