| What are the German Umlauts in Genealogy |
| ASC II code | TeX | HTML | Postscript | Name |
| "A, Ae | \"A | ä | Adieresis | A umlaut |
| "O, Oe | \"O | ö | Odieresis | O umlaut |
| "U, Ue | \"U | ü | Udieresis | U umlaut |
| "a, ae | \"a | ä | adieresis | a umlaut |
| "o, oe | \"o | ö | odieresis | o umlaut |
| "u, ue | \"u | ü | udieresis | u umlaut |
| "s, ss, sz | \ss | ß | germandbls | eszet |
| "y, ij | \"y | ÿ | ydieresis | y dieresis |
| "e | \"e | ë | edieresis | e dieresis |