I have figured out how to access the Meyers Orts und Verkehrs Lexicon Gazetteer [online via Ancestry], which is used to locate & expand information on place names in 1912 Germany. Ancestry's version is quite clear, although it is in German script. Good practice for me, a beginning student of German.

After I find a location, and print out a copy, I can interpret the abbreviations fairly well with the help of Wendy Uncapher's and Larry Jensen's books. But they advise genealogists to also check Meyers' 3rd Volume for the same location. They say added information may exist in Vol. III for any location, possibly with some corrections.

Can anybody explain to me how, or even if, I can access Volume III, via Ancestry? If there is an explanation on the Ancestry site, I have not been able to find it.

Thanks for any suggestions, BG

I do not know where you can find volume III at the Internet but you can find these books as photoreprints:
Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon
des Deutschen Reichs
Raymond S. Wright III
( Appendix to Volume II (originally published as part of Volume II ), Leipzig 1913.
Volume III:
Supplement published September 1913.
Reprint together as Volume II of Meyers
Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs
by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.Baltimore,
Maryland 2000.
Printed in America.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 99-85938
ISBN 0-8063-1631-4 (set)
ISBN 0-8063-1637-3 (Volume III)
Hope this will help?
Wilhelm

Hello B.G.

Sorry I cannot help you but maybe you can help me. I came upon the Meyers Orts Gazetteer quite by accident while online with ancestry.com. I am a member. However, I can't find my way back to it now that I need to use it. Could you give me the directions from their homepage how to find it? I've tried to ask Ancestry.com, but that effort has been fruitless.

Thanks, TM

Rule One: When you do actually locate Meyers Orts on Ancestry, bookmark it!

Try this: In Ancestry, go to Search, scroll down to Europe, then Germany, then look for the category "Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers".
Now scroll down [about 6 lines] to "Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire." I don't know why using any of those terms as keywords doesn't result in finding Meyers!

Best of luck, BG

Thanks BG. It was easy to find with your help. I hope you have equal success on your request.

TM