GERMAN-AMERICANS IN MISSOURI AND ST. LOUIS

Updated Feb, 2017

ST. LOUIS

Germans in St. Louis - brief overview from the StL Genealogical Society
Missouri Germans Consortium - newsletter, events, history, geneaology
German Cultural Society of St. Louis and St. Louis- Stuttgart Sister-City. with resources, further clubs, events
German-American Heritage Society of St. Louis
Germans in St. Louis Group and
Germanic Genealogy Society of St. Louis with events and resources
UMSL German Culture Center
Missouri History Museum
St. Louis German Street Names
Public Library Exhibit - German-Americans in St. Louis
Peopling St.Louis: history of immigrant arrivals.
Turnvereine in StL Part One and Two
History of Anheuser-Busch: photo gallery, story of founder Adolphus Busch, timeline.
Our St. Louis Strassenfest and Soulard Oktoberfest, also St. Charles, Belleville, etc.
St. Louis German Catholics by Fr. Wm. Barnaby Faherty and former German Catholic parishes
Das Katholische Deutschtum in St. Louis in seinen 20 Gemeinden.
German churches in STL with timeline - including Protestant denominations
G&W Bavarian Style Sausage Company and Gus' Pretzels
Schneithorst's Restaurant. One of the few German restaurants in town.
St. Louis Gasthaus and RoemerTopf in Mascoutah and 6 Best German restaurants in St. Louis
German School Association - language lessons for all ages. Highly recommended!
German tutor and translator in St. Louis
Stammtisch for speaking German.

MISSOURI

Search the German Heritage Collection: MO's largest collection of primary historical documents.

Rootsweb: Missouri Genealogical Resources and more Genealogy

W. Historical Manuscript Collection: papers of 1848 revolutionary Friedrich Hecker

U. of MO Press: see works by Adolf Schroeder, Ken Luebbering, Al Camigliano, Linda Pickle.

The joys of living in a log cabin 1840-1870. "A treasure trove of detail about daily life, local customs and politics" & the story of the van Drefeldt brothers by Ken Kronenberg.

An informal, but informative history of Germans in Missouri and their impact.

Missouri bleibt in der Union. MO stays in the Union. Germans take over St. Louis armory.

Index to Missouri in the Civil War. Extensive. Rootsweb's Missouri in the Civil War.

Stephan Werly's diary: German-American soldier in the 21st Missouri infantry. 1862-1864.

The Third Regiment Missouri Volunteers: Germans in the Civil War.

Christine Totten's Roots in the Rhineland is a good work for midwestern G-A history.

Deutschheim Historic Site in Hermann. Quarterly journal, Der Maibaum, published since 1993.

Genealogy, Immigration, Civil War and other related resources.

Hermann, MO: home of the Oktoberfest and the Maifest, and several German-founded wineries.

MO Mark Twain's That Awful German Language. Comical literal translation from the German.

Deutsch Country Days: in Marthasville, MO. Mid-Ocober. . Old time arts, crafts, skills, food, etc.

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