Family Trees

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Have any other .Orgahs traced their family trees, how far back, and how did you do it?

I'm working on mine - I have my father's side (the most important one to me) up to my great-grandfather, and my mother's to my grandparents (I haven't really worked on it as much, but one of my relatives has taken to researching it with me - no e-mail, so I've been sending letters).

However, I'm stuck. Of course, I could write to people on my father's side (what's with all the people who know anything about this not having e-mail? Honestly! In Berlin! Who would have thought?), but I'd prefer to compile some more on my own.

In essence, I need some really, really good sites - not the surname search ones (they're usually American or British), but some ones with databases for Germany, etc. I've tried the Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (War Graves Commission) already, and found six or so people with my last name, one of which was my great-uncle, and two or so of which may be closely related.

What I need is more sites like that. Some records from the National Socialist government (because if they were bad with anything else, they were good with records), etc. Any suggestions?