This book is the second in a series of volumes exploring the linage and heraldry of 16,000 common middle-class German citizens who have been identified from records dating from approximately 1250 to 1850. Access to documents about the commoner social strata of the 13th to 15th centuries is nearly non-existent for English-speaking family historians who wish to extend their family tree back in time before Guttenberg's invention of the printing press and prior to the first migration of our German ancestors to American in the 17th and 18th centuries.
This volume includes the following highlights:
- Significant characteristics of middle-class Patricians, Clergy and Burghers of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period of European History.
- How to Locate biographical information about middle-class Germans through the online German Biography Database and the CERL Thesaurus File.
- Understanding burgher coats-of-arms as a genealogical tool and resource.
- A Compendium of 2,000 entries pertaining to hundreds of surnames and given names, where and when each occurred, and place names of historical and modern geographical locales in the Holy roman Empire and Switzerland.
- Images of 2,000 coats of arms associated with the persons identified in the pages of this unique compilation of early German families.
Frederick George Siler
2025; 8.5" x 11", Paper, Index, 428 pp.
ISBN: 9781628593891
121-FR0706
