Saxony Genealogical Records
Saxony Birth & Baptism Records
An index to over 37 million birth and baptism records, listing parents' names.
A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.
Saxony Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to over 8 million marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
Saxony Death & Burial Records
An index to over 3 million death and burial records, including ages, names of relatives and other details.
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
Newspapers Covering Saxony
Text-searchable copies of hundreds of thousands of German newspaper articles.
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Saxony Immigration & Travel Records
An index to and images of lists of passengers departing Hamburg, Germany. They may list name, gender, age, date and place of birth, occupation, residence, nationality, marital status, family relationships, religion, military service and more. Contains over 5 million names.
An index to over 5 million people who departed on ships from Hamburg, Germany. The index includes name, name of ship, departure date, destination port and other details.
Transcripts of documents recording the immigration of over 4 million Germans to America. Records may include name, date and place arrived, gender, age, birthplace, occupation, literacy, departure port and more.
An index to over 40,000 people who sailed from Hamburg to Australia and New Zealand. It contains: name, former place of residence, age, occupation, ship and more.
Abstracts of details found in passenger lists, passport records, correspondence and seaman records, which may list name, age, gender, birthplace, occupation, residence, destination, emigration date and more. Most passengers were traveling to North America.
Saxony Military Records
An index to and images of World War I casualty lists for the German army. The lists include over 5 million soldiers who died, were injured, or went missing during the war.
Registers recording the arrival of over 75,000 prisoners of war, political prisoners and those deemed as undesirable by the Nazi regime.
Registers recording the arrival of around 175,000 political prisoners and those deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime.
A collection of fascinating diaries and remembrances of WWI soldiers.
An index to and images records detailing the incarceration of 1.34 million military personnel, civilians, diplomats, missionaries & merchant seamen who were held as prisoners of war. The records cover British prisoners held by foreign powers and non-British prisoners held by Britain.
Saxony Court & Legal Records
Registers recording the arrival of over 75,000 prisoners of war, political prisoners and those deemed as undesirable by the Nazi regime.
A collection of various camp records, transport lists, medical data cards, inmate cards, death lists, and strength reports salvaged by the United States.
Registers recording the arrival of around 175,000 political prisoners and those deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime.
A database of over 165,000 Dachau prisoners who were included on a survivors list prepared after the end of the war.
The names of over 33,000 Jews who survived the holocaust and ended up in displaced persons camps.
Saxony Directories & Gazetteers
A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.
Books recording the names of military officers and civil servants.
Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.
An index to and images of telephone directories for Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Leipzig, and Munich.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
Saxony Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Saxony Obituaries
Indexed images of over 400,000 obituaries of Germans from Russia who died in North America.
Saxony Histories & Books
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
A collection of various camp records, transport lists, medical data cards, inmate cards, death lists, and strength reports salvaged by the United States.
A database of over 165,000 Dachau prisoners who were included on a survivors list prepared after the end of the war.
A collection of over 25,000 photographic postcards, depicting life and scenes in Germany and Austria. Each postcard caption has been indexed and may be searched by keyword or location.
Saxony School & Education Records
An index to minutes concerning meetings helping Jewish women immigrate to the UK.
Saxony Occupation & Business Records
Books recording the names of military officers and civil servants.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Saxony
The lineages of German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Czech and Austrian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
The lineages of Pomeranian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Saxony Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
The lineages of German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Czech and Austrian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A growing collection of heraldic and related clip art that can be used to reconstruct a families' arms. Includes packs for British, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Swiss and Dutch arms. Images are available in a variety of formats including vectors.
The lineages of Pomeranian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Saxony Maps
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Saxony Reference Works
A growing collection of heraldic and related clip art that can be used to reconstruct a families' arms. Includes packs for British, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Swiss and Dutch arms. Images are available in a variety of formats including vectors.
A database containing variants of 100,000s of given names used by Jews.
Most Common Surnames in Saxony
Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Germany |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Müller | 68,796 | 1:57 | 7.28% | 1 |
2 | Richter | 49,633 | 1:80 | 21.62% | 12 |
3 | Schmidt | 43,090 | 1:92 | 6.04% | 2 |
4 | Schneider | 26,399 | 1:150 | 6.03% | 3 |
5 | Fischer | 25,179 | 1:157 | 6.73% | 4 |
6 | Schubert | 21,042 | 1:188 | 21.00% | 53 |
7 | Lehmann | 19,202 | 1:206 | 12.81% | 27 |
8 | Wagner | 18,662 | 1:212 | 6.22% | 7 |
9 | Schulze | 18,480 | 1:214 | 13.45% | 33 |
10 | Wolf | 18,473 | 1:214 | 9.46% | 16 |
11 | Hofmann | 16,283 | 1:243 | 10.19% | 22 |
12 | Weber | 15,818 | 1:250 | 4.83% | 5 |
13 | Köhler | 15,714 | 1:252 | 12.52% | 37 |
14 | Hoffmann | 15,449 | 1:256 | 5.60% | 10 |
15 | Seidel | 15,298 | 1:259 | 21.85% | 83 |
16 | Winkler | 15,267 | 1:259 | 15.94% | 57 |
17 | Lange | 14,335 | 1:276 | 9.00% | 23 |
18 | Neumann | 14,014 | 1:282 | 7.78% | 18 |
19 | Günther | 13,677 | 1:289 | 14.42% | 59 |
20 | Seifert | 13,564 | 1:292 | 23.14% | 105 |
21 | Werner | 13,413 | 1:295 | 9.20% | 31 |
22 | Krause | 12,960 | 1:305 | 8.57% | 26 |
23 | Scholz | 12,561 | 1:315 | 11.19% | 46 |
24 | Herrmann | 12,535 | 1:316 | 9.60% | 35 |
25 | Schulz | 12,501 | 1:316 | 4.48% | 9 |
26 | Lorenz | 12,365 | 1:320 | 13.21% | 60 |
27 | Böhme | 12,258 | 1:323 | 33.85% | 196 |
28 | Vogel | 11,914 | 1:332 | 11.89% | 52 |
29 | Meyer | 11,718 | 1:338 | 3.61% | 6 |
30 | Franke | 11,591 | 1:341 | 13.47% | 62 |
31 | Friedrich | 10,948 | 1:361 | 11.05% | 54 |
32 | Zimmermann | 10,925 | 1:362 | 6.69% | 21 |
33 | Voigt | 10,449 | 1:379 | 16.83% | 94 |
34 | Berger | 10,259 | 1:386 | 10.17% | 51 |
35 | Walther | 10,160 | 1:389 | 21.58% | 143 |
36 | Riedel | 10,067 | 1:393 | 18.83% | 119 |
37 | Lindner | 9,996 | 1:396 | 16.68% | 100 |
38 | Uhlig | 9,704 | 1:408 | 54.83% | 530 |
39 | Schumann | 9,582 | 1:413 | 19.17% | 133 |
40 | Naumann | 9,528 | 1:415 | 26.18% | 193 |
41 | Kunze | 8,829 | 1:448 | 21.56% | 167 |
42 | Otto | 8,638 | 1:458 | 11.92% | 78 |
43 | Förster | 8,604 | 1:460 | 17.65% | 137 |
44 | Bauer | 8,558 | 1:462 | 3.79% | 13 |
45 | Beyer | 8,522 | 1:464 | 13.99% | 96 |
46 | Neubert | 8,417 | 1:470 | 36.93% | 377 |
47 | Arnold | 8,008 | 1:494 | 13.38% | 101 |
48 | Schäfer | 7,964 | 1:497 | 3.58% | 14 |
49 | Koch | 7,930 | 1:499 | 3.44% | 11 |
50 | Hartmann | 7,790 | 1:508 | 5.00% | 24 |
51 | Schuster | 7,736 | 1:511 | 9.60% | 67 |
52 | Rudolph | 7,717 | 1:513 | 18.36% | 164 |
53 | Heinrich | 7,614 | 1:519 | 10.71% | 79 |
54 | Fiedler | 7,595 | 1:521 | 15.26% | 134 |
55 | Becker | 7,243 | 1:546 | 2.58% | 8 |
56 | Martin | 7,240 | 1:546 | 9.48% | 72 |
57 | Fritzsche | 7,120 | 1:555 | 42.85% | 581 |
58 | Thomas | 7,017 | 1:564 | 11.56% | 98 |
59 | Petzold | 6,962 | 1:568 | 40.72% | 561 |
60 | Kühn | 6,956 | 1:569 | 11.28% | 95 |
61 | Dietrich | 6,789 | 1:583 | 10.12% | 86 |
62 | Kretzschmar | 6,765 | 1:585 | 47.47% | 681 |
63 | Noack | 6,728 | 1:588 | 22.31% | 263 |
64 | Weiß | 6,669 | 1:593 | 6.35% | 48 |
65 | Hahn | 6,494 | 1:609 | 6.25% | 49 |
66 | Haase | 6,484 | 1:610 | 12.38% | 121 |
67 | König | 6,474 | 1:611 | 5.17% | 39 |
68 | Ludwig | 6,406 | 1:617 | 7.87% | 64 |
69 | Walter | 6,368 | 1:621 | 5.09% | 38 |
70 | Thiele | 6,334 | 1:624 | 13.72% | 148 |
71 | Kaiser | 6,330 | 1:625 | 5.17% | 41 |
72 | Krüger | 6,234 | 1:634 | 4.02% | 25 |
73 | Hennig | 6,051 | 1:654 | 19.10% | 245 |
74 | Schreiber | 5,988 | 1:660 | 8.71% | 84 |
75 | Jahn | 5,986 | 1:661 | 11.71% | 129 |
76 | Unger | 5,884 | 1:672 | 17.92% | 233 |
77 | Reichel | 5,725 | 1:691 | 25.14% | 378 |
78 | Kluge | 5,705 | 1:693 | 21.58% | 313 |
79 | Böhm | 5,701 | 1:694 | 7.25% | 70 |
80 | Schröder | 5,627 | 1:703 | 2.98% | 17 |
81 | Langer | 5,574 | 1:710 | 10.70% | 123 |
82 | Keller | 5,537 | 1:714 | 5.43% | 50 |
83 | Heinze | 5,484 | 1:721 | 18.12% | 262 |
84 | Dittrich | 5,481 | 1:722 | 20.12% | 302 |
85 | Pohl | 5,424 | 1:729 | 8.66% | 91 |
86 | Schwarz | 5,406 | 1:732 | 3.24% | 19 |
87 | Wenzel | 5,405 | 1:732 | 9.63% | 109 |
88 | Hübner | 5,395 | 1:733 | 9.21% | 106 |
89 | Schöne | 5,360 | 1:738 | 38.82% | 706 |
90 | Hempel | 5,341 | 1:741 | 26.81% | 453 |
91 | Albrecht | 5,266 | 1:751 | 6.19% | 63 |
92 | Fuchs | 5,135 | 1:770 | 4.34% | 43 |
93 | Geißler | 5,127 | 1:771 | 23.56% | 405 |
94 | Börner | 5,123 | 1:772 | 28.47% | 519 |
95 | Rothe | 5,085 | 1:778 | 21.29% | 360 |
96 | Horn | 5,082 | 1:778 | 8.01% | 89 |
97 | Meier | 5,051 | 1:783 | 3.41% | 29 |
98 | Ebert | 4,999 | 1:791 | 11.50% | 157 |
99 | Paul | 4,987 | 1:793 | 9.23% | 116 |
99 | Schindler | 4,987 | 1:793 | 11.33% | 154 |
101 | Baumann | 4,981 | 1:794 | 5.66% | 61 |
102 | Menzel | 4,958 | 1:798 | 14.26% | 212 |
103 | Barth | 4,916 | 1:805 | 8.96% | 113 |
104 | Dietze | 4,862 | 1:813 | 44.68% | 928 |
105 | Stephan | 4,806 | 1:823 | 12.01% | 172 |
106 | Schröter | 4,797 | 1:824 | 13.91% | 214 |
107 | Frenzel | 4,725 | 1:837 | 26.46% | 526 |
108 | Winter | 4,717 | 1:838 | 5.80% | 65 |
109 | Weise | 4,698 | 1:842 | 21.12% | 392 |
110 | Schramm | 4,696 | 1:842 | 11.08% | 162 |
111 | Bergmann | 4,637 | 1:853 | 7.35% | 90 |
112 | Brückner | 4,585 | 1:863 | 16.80% | 301 |
113 | Körner | 4,540 | 1:871 | 12.88% | 206 |
114 | Meißner | 4,533 | 1:872 | 13.64% | 229 |
115 | Hentschel | 4,512 | 1:877 | 20.44% | 394 |
116 | Büttner | 4,503 | 1:878 | 12.01% | 188 |
117 | Fleischer | 4,491 | 1:881 | 18.89% | 361 |
118 | Wunderlich | 4,474 | 1:884 | 20.81% | 412 |
119 | Kühne | 4,414 | 1:896 | 17.22% | 328 |
120 | Bachmann | 4,377 | 1:904 | 11.27% | 177 |
121 | Klemm | 4,309 | 1:918 | 22.44% | 474 |
122 | Groß | 4,255 | 1:929 | 6.22% | 85 |
123 | Stein | 4,212 | 1:939 | 5.57% | 73 |
124 | Thieme | 4,192 | 1:943 | 25.22% | 580 |
125 | Matthes | 4,176 | 1:947 | 25.57% | 592 |
126 | Reinhold | 4,076 | 1:970 | 26.20% | 621 |
127 | Helbig | 4,052 | 1:976 | 25.78% | 612 |
128 | Ullrich | 4,041 | 1:979 | 10.63% | 183 |
129 | Simon | 4,008 | 1:987 | 4.95% | 66 |
130 | Jacob | 4,007 | 1:987 | 14.44% | 295 |
131 | Opitz | 3,998 | 1:989 | 20.34% | 461 |
132 | Morgenstern | 3,991 | 1:991 | 35.24% | 886 |
133 | Barthel | 3,986 | 1:992 | 20.99% | 487 |
134 | Ullmann | 3,964 | 1:998 | 25.30% | 613 |
135 | Reichelt | 3,952 | 1:1,001 | 23.69% | 576 |
136 | Lohse | 3,944 | 1:1,003 | 27.80% | 684 |
137 | Sommer | 3,943 | 1:1,003 | 5.31% | 75 |
138 | Schlegel | 3,915 | 1:1,010 | 13.85% | 291 |
139 | Franz | 3,895 | 1:1,015 | 7.02% | 110 |
140 | Böttcher | 3,867 | 1:1,023 | 8.48% | 149 |
141 | Schreiter | 3,855 | 1:1,026 | 60.05% | 1,623 |
142 | Möckel | 3,845 | 1:1,029 | 51.92% | 1,376 |
143 | Berndt | 3,842 | 1:1,029 | 13.15% | 276 |
144 | Großmann | 3,832 | 1:1,032 | 14.93% | 326 |
145 | Anders | 3,822 | 1:1,035 | 15.42% | 344 |
146 | Eichler | 3,748 | 1:1,055 | 19.70% | 485 |
147 | Klein | 3,740 | 1:1,057 | 1.87% | 15 |
148 | Linke | 3,727 | 1:1,061 | 12.19% | 256 |
149 | Nitzsche | 3,705 | 1:1,067 | 47.91% | 1,308 |
150 | Kaden | 3,702 | 1:1,068 | 54.82% | 1,526 |
151 | Weigel | 3,692 | 1:1,071 | 18.67% | 458 |
152 | Georgi | 3,667 | 1:1,079 | 39.53% | 1,071 |
153 | Schütze | 3,630 | 1:1,090 | 18.62% | 464 |
154 | Wittig | 3,627 | 1:1,090 | 22.01% | 582 |
155 | Herzog | 3,623 | 1:1,092 | 8.58% | 163 |
156 | Herold | 3,603 | 1:1,098 | 15.01% | 358 |
157 | Schönherr | 3,535 | 1:1,119 | 41.29% | 1,180 |
158 | Döring | 3,529 | 1:1,121 | 10.41% | 221 |
159 | Beier | 3,514 | 1:1,126 | 14.29% | 350 |
160 | Gärtner | 3,505 | 1:1,128 | 9.33% | 187 |
161 | Burkhardt | 3,498 | 1:1,131 | 13.49% | 323 |
162 | Reinhardt | 3,491 | 1:1,133 | 7.76% | 151 |
163 | Uhlmann | 3,483 | 1:1,136 | 41.64% | 1,209 |
164 | Nestler | 3,464 | 1:1,142 | 53.56% | 1,612 |
165 | Braun | 3,458 | 1:1,144 | 2.09% | 20 |
165 | Ulbricht | 3,458 | 1:1,144 | 42.40% | 1,236 |
167 | Große | 3,439 | 1:1,150 | 19.74% | 548 |
168 | Pilz | 3,430 | 1:1,153 | 22.58% | 638 |
169 | Michel | 3,428 | 1:1,154 | 7.22% | 141 |
170 | Vogt | 3,416 | 1:1,158 | 4.42% | 71 |
171 | Hesse | 3,415 | 1:1,158 | 7.87% | 158 |
172 | Starke | 3,406 | 1:1,161 | 24.42% | 693 |
173 | Bretschneider | 3,344 | 1:1,183 | 43.50% | 1,317 |
174 | John | 3,298 | 1:1,199 | 9.91% | 227 |
175 | Ritter | 3,276 | 1:1,207 | 6.45% | 132 |
176 | Fröhlich | 3,262 | 1:1,212 | 7.97% | 169 |
177 | Mann | 3,261 | 1:1,213 | 11.50% | 289 |
178 | Berthold | 3,250 | 1:1,217 | 27.77% | 852 |
179 | Löffler | 3,212 | 1:1,231 | 8.98% | 200 |
180 | Kramer | 3,211 | 1:1,232 | 5.40% | 103 |
181 | Claus | 3,194 | 1:1,238 | 21.62% | 653 |
182 | Melzer | 3,164 | 1:1,250 | 20.21% | 615 |
182 | Pietsch | 3,164 | 1:1,250 | 15.53% | 440 |
184 | Lang | 3,152 | 1:1,255 | 2.79% | 45 |
185 | Graf | 3,148 | 1:1,256 | 4.47% | 81 |
186 | Möbius | 3,142 | 1:1,259 | 33.14% | 1,046 |
187 | Sonntag | 3,124 | 1:1,266 | 14.82% | 419 |
188 | Wünsche | 3,100 | 1:1,276 | 47.08% | 1,575 |
189 | Gläser | 3,090 | 1:1,280 | 26.80% | 864 |
190 | Hunger | 3,088 | 1:1,281 | 33.65% | 1,086 |
191 | Grimm | 3,086 | 1:1,282 | 5.97% | 125 |
192 | Funke | 3,076 | 1:1,286 | 12.26% | 337 |
193 | Steinert | 3,059 | 1:1,293 | 23.84% | 762 |
194 | Hoppe | 3,057 | 1:1,294 | 5.96% | 126 |
195 | Liebscher | 3,036 | 1:1,303 | 47.21% | 1,621 |
196 | Wendler | 3,028 | 1:1,306 | 30.55% | 1,008 |
197 | Scholze | 3,022 | 1:1,309 | 44.32% | 1,508 |
198 | Leonhardt | 3,020 | 1:1,310 | 19.42% | 622 |
198 | Siegel | 3,020 | 1:1,310 | 16.55% | 509 |
200 | Reimann | 3,019 | 1:1,310 | 9.11% | 230 |