Alsace-Lorraine Place Name Indexes: Identifying Place Names Using Alphabetical & Reverse Alphabetical Indexes - Germany

Alsace-Lorraine Place Name Indexes: Identifying Place Names Using Alphabetical & Reverse Alphabetical Indexes; by Roger P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G.; Copyright 2005; Republished 2015; 99 pp; Soft Cover; Item # FR0601 Indexing over 6,350 Alsace-Lorraine place names An Alsace-Lorraine reverse alphabetical index is key to doing research in the parish registers of the German state. The Reverse Alphabetical Index allows the researcher to determine the name of a town when the first part of the name (whether one or more letters) is missing. This is a common problem caused by torn or moldy pages, ink-blots, tight bindings, poor microfilm quality, etc. By using this index, the researcher can also determine the official spelling for towns when variant spellings occur in old records. The book includes a regular alphabetical index of all the towns in the province as well as regular and reverse alphabetical listings of over 6,350 names of German kingdoms, duchies, principalities, counties, rivers, mo