Familienglück, ein Büchlein für Jünglinge und Jungfrauen, die sich verheirathen wollen, 1903. (courtesy MKI)

Familienglück, ein Büchlein für Jünglinge und Jungfrauen, die sich verheirathen wollen, 1903. (courtesy MKI)

The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies can help your German research.

Founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1983 with a grant from the Max Kade Foundation of New York, the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies examines how “German-speaking immigrants and their descendants have both shaped their North American environment and been shaped by it.”German-American immigration, history, culture, and language are the topics of interest at the MKI, and the following links may be helpful to genealogists researching German lines:

American Languages: German Dialects

Scanned images from the MKI Archives 

Ethnicity in Wisconsin

Historical Maps of Central Europe (G. D. Reymann’s Special-Karte, 1832-1870)

How German is [the] American [Language]?

Translators

Virtual Exhibits

If you live or will be traveling to Madison, the MKI Library offers:

  • A collection of more than 3200 books, pamphlets, and periodicals in the German language published in America, and/or by German-American authors;
  • A collection of more than 5300 books, articles, and pamphlets dealing significantly with political, cultural and religious aspects of German, Swiss, and Austrian settlement in North America;
  • A collection of more than 390 family histories, diaries, and manuscripts of German-speaking immigrants and descendants;
  • More than thirty current journals or newsletters on the subject of German-American studies or genealogy.
  • A listing of recent Library acquisitions can be viewed by clicking: New Acquisitions.

 

For more information, visit the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies’ genealogy page by clicking here.