I just found out that i was half German how can i find more information on Germany?

Question

I just found out that i was half German how can i find more information on Germany?

Answer 1

Also look here: http://www.germany.info/relaunch/index.h...

Answer 2

Books like "Culture Shock! Germany" and similar help with understanding German people.

Web resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

http://wikitravel.org/en/Germany

http://www.cometogermany.com/

You might also consider a trip to Germany in the near future. Germany is travel friendly, if a bit on the expensive side. Minimum budget for a trip to Germany should be 50 EUR per day and person plus cost of transport to Germany.

Answer 3

There are U.S. and British people who lived and worked in Germany, and have their personal blogs on the internet. Maybe their experience will be useful to you. Just google it out.

If you know some details about your German ancestry, it should suffice to know in what city you or your ancestors were born. German communities keep some really tight and reliable birth registers, so if you want to find out about it, send them email or a letter. I once had a letter forwarded from the tourist office in my village, sent by an American who wanted to find out about his ancestors, and he found my real name on the internet. Turned out we're not related (I don't have a very uncommon name), but we had some good conversation via email.

If you consider traveling to Germany, read about it at the Lonely Planet:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/d...

I think no travel guide puts it in a nutshell like this:

"Germany wears its riches well: elegant big-city charm, small picture-postcard towns, pagan-inspired harvest festivals, a wealth of art and culture and the perennial pleasures of huge tracts of forest, delightful castles and fine wine and beer are all there for the savouring.

Deep in the heart of Europe, Germany has had a seminal impact on Continental history. From Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire to Otto von Bismarck's German Reich, Nazism and the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, no other nation has moulded Europe the way Germany has - for better or worse."

As a German, I feel delighted by this judgement, and the Lonely Planet books have always been a reliable source of information to me. I took them along to southeast Asia even.