Books & Articles

Featured Books

The following is a list of the genealogy-related publications I have written or coauthored that are currently in print or that may become available again in the future.

Germanic Genealogy: A Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns

by Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D., Mary Bellingham, Kent Cutkomp, Kermit Frye, and Patricia A. Lowe (1997) The 3rd edition is now available. $49.00 plus shipping and handling.

Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia (Ost- und Westpreussen): Records, Sources, Publications & Events

by Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D., and Adalbert Goertz, Ph.D. Modified 2003 revised edition (June 2003), 478 pp., including 50 maps. A companion volume for Pomerania, Poznania, East Brandenburg and Silesia is expected to be published in late 2007.

Learning and Deciphering the Gothic Script

by Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D.

This lecture is available for $7.00 plus $2.50 shipping and handling. However, the shipping charge for this lecture is only $1.00 if it is ordered together with the 3rd edition of Germanic Genealogy.

Other Books

Where to Look for Hard-to-Find German-Speaking Ancestors in Eastern Europe: Index to 19,720 Surnames in 13 Books, with Historical Background on Each Settlement

2nd edition; by Bruce Brandt and Edward R. Brandt.(1993) Available from Clearfield Company.

Contents and Addresses of Hungarian Archives with Supplementary Material for Research on German Ancestors

2nd ed. by Edward R. Brandt. (1993) $17.50 Available from Clearfield Company. (The two Hungarian-American societies listed in this book are now extinct.)

Resources for Polish-American and Polish-Canadian Genealogical Research

2nd ed. by Edward R. Brandt. (1998). Currently out of print; reprint uncertain.

Where Once They Toiled: A Visit to the Former Mennonite Homelands in the Vistula River Valley

by Edward R. Brandt. (1992) 28 pp. $5.00 Available from Masthof Press or Mennonite Books (under History/Sociology). A booklet describing my 1991 trip to the former Mennonite homelands in the Vistula river valley. Includes a map and a description of my travels in other areas of Poland.

Articles

My articles on genealogy and related subjects (including some in German and some German-to-English translations) have appeared in the following, among others:

• American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Journal and its annual genealogical issue, Clues
• Heritage Review and its annual genealogical issue, Der Stammbaum
• Wandering Volhynians (ceased publication at the end of 1999)
• Germanic Genealogy Journal
• Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Newsletter
• East European Genealogist
• Preservings
• Heritage Quest (now defunct)
• The Palatine Immigrant
• Galizien German Descendants Newsletter
• Mennonite Family History (contributing editor for some years in the 1990s)
• Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research
• Rocenka
• Rodziny
• German-Bohemian Heritage Society Newsletter
• The Minnesota Genealogist
• FEEFHS Newsletter (now Journal)
• Ratgeber ’93: Familienforschung Mittel- und Osteuropa

Many of my articles (or the issues in which they appeared) may be available from the publishers. These include

• the Germanic Genealogy Society (St. Paul, with its library collection at Concordia University);
• the Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota (South St. Paul, MN*);
• the Minnesota Genealogical Society (South St. Paul, MN*);
• the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (St. Paul, with its library collection in South St. Paul, MN*);
• the East European Genealogist (Winnipeg, MB);
• the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Lincoln, NE);
• the Germans from Russia Heritage Society (Bismarck, ND);
• the German-Bohemian Heritage Society (New Ulm, MN);
• Galizien German Descendants (Walnut Creek, CA);
• the D. F. Plett Historical Foundation (Steinbach, MB);
• the Polish Genealogical Society of America (Chicago, IL);
• Mennonite Family History (independent periodical by Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA); and
• the Leo Baeck Institute (New York, NY).

* The new library housing these collections will officially open December 1, 2007.

© 2005 Edward R. Brandt.

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