This lesson will provide a basic history of the Cyrillic alphabet and help you recognize and identify Russian letters - both typed and handwritten.

Once you’ve determined where in Ukraine your ancestor is from, you’ll need to locate the town in websites, maps, and gazetteers to not only determine its modern-day location, but its historical jurisdictions. Whether your ancestor was from Galicia, the Russian Empire or anywhere in between, we’ll learn about resources that can help you locate the important civil and religious jurisdictions necessary to locate records.

This class will focus on a selection of relevant websites and archives for researching ancestors who lived in the former German Empire provinces of East and West Prussia. Today this area is split between Poland, the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, and a small section of western Lithuania.

Learn how to know and recognize keywords, common vocabulary, and abbreviations found in Russian language genealogical documents and practice your paleography skills along the way.

This lesson will teach you how to use the online gazetteer Kartenmeister.com to find German, Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian names for the same locality. You will also learn to find all the villages listed within a county or “Kreis” and how to collaborate with other people researching the same localities.

Nothing’s sure but death and taxes. We will discuss records regarding both to help you find your family in Russian Empire era Armenia.

This course will introduce you tips and tricks to decipher Russian Handwriting, how to utilize genealogical word lists and online dictionaries to assist you in your translation as well as the basic grammar necessary to read and understand genealogical documents.

Ukraine was home to a large Jewish population prior to WWII. Learn about various websites and resources that can help you trace your Jewish Roots in Ukraine.

Learn to explore the newly updated catalog on FamilySearch to find essential records hidden in plain sight.