• Swiss Essentials: Locating Church Records & Understanding the Impact of Citizenship

    This is a partner event. Presenter: Charlotte Noelle Champenois. Gain an understanding of the essential research tools for researching your ancestors from Switzerland. Learn how to use the Register of Swiss Surnames, Ortsnamen.ch (Swiss maps website), and parish pages on the FamilySearch Wiki to figure out correct localities and locate genealogical records. Discover how Switzerland’s […]

  • Using Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy: Free Virtual Collaborative Learning Session

    This is a partner event. Curious about how AI can enhance your genealogical research? Join us for a FREE Zoom session exploring AI tools and applications for genealogists. Patty Wiseman will introduce AI basics and demonstrate how chatbots like ChatGPT can assist researchers. Andrea Ackermann will then demonstrate how AI can enhance your research planning, […]

  • Monthly focus group

    This is a partner event. Share our knowledge, struggles and finds with each other. Topic: Presentation of Matricula and Archion, the two main church record sites in Germany. Register. Mountain time zone | online |English

  • Roland-Online-Vortrag

    This is a partner event. Münsterberg.org - Eine Erfolgsgeschichte mit dem Referenten Christoph Bleischwitz. Teilnahmemöglichkeit. Central Europe time zone | online | German

  • Analyseabend “Wie ordne ich meine Funde geschichtlich ein?”

    *This is a partner event. Viele Forscher sammeln jahrelang Namen und Lebensdaten ohne sich um den geschichtlichen Konnex zu kĂĽmmern.Sie verstehen damit oft nicht warum das Leben dieser Vorfahren so war, obwohl man das oft durchaus einschätzen kann. D.h. die Forscher sind eingeladen Ihre Fragen bei diesem Analyseabend zu stellen und unser Team bei Familia […]

  • German Americans and the Founding of the United States

    Presenter: Dr. Emily Sneff. The names of German Americans do not often come to mind when we think about the founding of the United States. In fact, some of the “Founding Fathers” held negative views of German communities. However, immigrants and people of German descent were deeply involved in the war against Great Britain, the […]

  • Genealogical Resources of the Lebanon County Historical Society

    This is a partner event. Presenter: Bruce D. Bomberger, archivist and curator. The Lebanon County Historical Society (LCHS) was founded in 1898 and houses the Hauck Memorial Archives and Library. Owing to the extensive settlement of German people in the Lebanon area, many of the activities of this ethnic group dominate the records. Among the […]

  • Schuster, Sattler, Pergamentmacher

    *This is a partner event. Betrachtung verschiedener Berufe der Leder- und Fellverarbeitung. Vortragende: Angelika SCHMALBACH. Bitte hier anmelden. Central Europe time zone | online | German

  • Online-DNA-Genealogie-Stammtisch

    This is a partner event. Tipps und Hilfen rund um die DNA-Genealogie! Mit Kurzvortrag von Sabine Akabayov:GEDmatch, Episode 4: „Phasing von Kits einer Person mit dem Kit eines Elternteils (oder beide Elternteile).“ Einladung mit Teilnahmemöglichkeit. Central Europe time zone | online | German

  • Die Pfalz / The Palatinate

    This is a partner event. This month the group will look at the Palatinate region of Germany. So many immigrants came from this area, that in the colonial period German speakers were called Palatines instead of Germans. It has a unique history because it was part of the original Roman empire and it suffered through […]