This class will examine record types and key strategies for finding immigration records and the inclusion of Canadian Border Crossings.

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.

In this lesson you will learn to use HisKi, a database of church record extracts created by the Genealogical Society of Finland and be introduced to Finland's Family History Association (FFHA), and online site of digitized images and Digihakemisto, asite of digitized images taken from the National Archives of Finland. You will view representative church records on these sites including Household Examinations (Rippikirjat), Births (Syntyneet), Marriages (Vihityt), and deaths (Kuolleet).

In this segment we will go over different resources that will help you decipher records in a foreign language.

This is a case study in which a certain Johanna Andersdotter of Sweden is traced through the genealogical records in order to be correctly identified.

In this segment we are going to cover the steps you need to take to help you decipher a foreign language document. You will need to pause the video at certain portions in order to complete the activities.

Catholic parish records are among the richest resources for family history research in Spain and Latin America. Catholicism has been the predominant religion in these countries for centuries. As a result, the local parish priest recorded the happiest and saddest events of the lives of our ancestors, from their baptism as an infant to their final resting place. Come learn about the history, use and content of parish records to flesh out the lives of your ancestors. Tips and strategies will be presented which will facilitate your success in locating and searching these records. Stories from parish records will be shared to highlight the richness of the records. All the videos together will take you 39:16 to complete.

You have incomplete information about your ancestor Johanna Jacobsdotter. She was born 14 December 1807. You know she was born in Finland. Find the names of the parish and village where she was born, and the names of her parents and siblings.

This section will go through content, use, tips, and strategies of looking through Parish Records.