Stammtafeln / family trees
These are written by registrars of the civil office till 1933 and show names, birth-dates and birth-place, name of the parents, wife and children.

Bürgerbücher/Burgher Rolls/citizenship records
In the Burgher Rolls those people are documented who took an oath to defend the town. Other inhabitants had to have guarantors. Fotocopies exist from:
Die Altstadt-Bürgerbücher von 1289-1797
Neustadt-Bürgerbücher von 1661-1822
Vortstadt-Bürgerbücher von 1661-1738
There are registers for these books.

Grey maps
In the grey maps are collected family-trees, obituaries or other interesting information about families researched by members of the MAUS. They are organized alphabetically and linked by registers to other families. In 1998 there was an amount of more than 2500 maps.

(You can find all listed surnames at: Die Maus; grey maps )

Bremen pastors
This documentation was made by order of the Bremer Evangelische Kirche from Mrs. Tusnelde Forck up to her death in 1972. It is a research on pastors and ministers in the Bremen churches back to the reformation.

General Genealogical Literature

Deutsches Familienarchiv/German Family Archive
Deutsches Geschlechterbuch/German Gender Book
Germans To America
Schriften des Vereins fuer Familienforschung in Ost- und Westpreußen e.V./Literature of the Society for Familyresearch in East- and West-Prussia
Ortsfamilienbücher /family books
Personenlisten / People-listings
also many other genealogical literature.

Bremer Adressbuch / address-book
from 1794-1985 on microfiche. You also find, to what parish the person belonged.

University-matricel

Evaluations of historical university-matricel from Altdorf, Basel, Köln, Braunschweig, Frankfurt, Göttingen, Marburg, Strassburg and Wittenberg.

Archivalien
"Familiarum Bremensium Stemmata"
A famous hand-writing of the former archivar Hermann Post.

Testamentbücher / wills
1500-1871
Register in each book.

Lassungsbücher / landbooks
1438-1835
Catalogue of land-selling in the city. Generalregister from 1438-1586. From 1587-1835 registers in each book.

Schedebuch
1435-1603

Collection of judgements
Protocols of former courts from 1562-1811

Schossregister / tax-registers
Listings of "Bürger" who paid or didn't pay taxes, organized in parishes, from 1668-1877.

Rechnungsbücher / accountancy-books
Von Ratskasse (Rheederbuch 1469-1812), Schütting (1605-1811) und Kämmerei (1438-1811)

Interesting for the surrounding of Bremen:

Court-protocols and financial churchbooks
for Blockland, Borgfeld, Hastedt, Walle and Wasserhorst.

The so called Mainbook/Hauptbuch von 1609
There is a lot of family-historical information for the parishes Arsten, Bederkesa, Gröpelingen, Huchting and Seehausen.

Contributions
1595 - for the four Gohe (=Gaue) around Bremen

Pflugschatzregister / plough tax register
1604 - Ober- und Niedervieland, Holler- und Blockland, Werderland, Walle, Gröpelingen and Borgfeld.

Kirchliche Güter / church estates
1641 - listing of church estates in the city and surrounding.

Diaries and Travelogs
Starting in the 16^th century with lots of people-listings

Chronicles
Lot of normal-day literature

Catalogs
the Mayors since 1562, Pastors since 1522, Physicians/Doctors (15^th -17^th century).

The " Almanach de Gotha"