This webinar presents the recommended methods of discovering how and from which countries your ancestors emigrated.

This presentation will be a survey of the record collections available for documenting the service of individuals who served during "The Great War"

Discover how descendancy research can provide a different perspective on your family history research.

Mine the Gold! - What are the Freedmen Records? This class will investigate how to effectively research millions of New Freedmen's Bureau Records from FamilySearch.

This segment introduces you to the HETRINA database.

This segment reviews a name list of soldiers from Anhalt-Zerbst, and a compiled collection of name lists from muster rolls and prisoner of war lists.

This segment reviews two sources to help you quickly identify which principality a soldier came from.

This presentation demonstrates the value of using FamilySearch as a resource to help the viewer discover their lineage and answer questions of identity. Viewers learn to effecitvely use the historical records collections, the browes-only collections, the Familysearch catalog, and the digital "Books" (a shared collections of over a dozen institutional libraries). Effective search techniques are taught. African American collections, some unique to FS, are highlighted. This class was originally presented at the AAHGS 2020 virtual conference.

This segment briefly reviews who the Hessian Soldiers were, where they came from, and why some of them stayed in America.

Objectives • Follow the standard process for African American genealogical research • Use five strategies for successfully locating your ancestors in historical records • Organize and evaluate your research results • Find unique African American sources