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.

This recording introduces the Belgian Surnames site where one can find a long list of Belgian surnames along with meanings of the names.

Follow the search for an immigrant who is not found where she is supposed to be and whose name is uncertain.

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.

Find people in the online register of farms 1838 for Norway. These records are called Matrikkel. This will give the name of the farmer, the name of the farm with the farm number, and how much that was owed on each farm.

Dive into researching your Finnish roots! This class will give you the basic background of Findland, discuss naming conventions, explain the basic research strategy, and explore websites available for Finnish research.

This class teaches how to use FamilySearch Wiki to solve common problems in the Nordic countries including reading difficult names, translation, Scandinavian feast day conversions, and the Danish military levying rolls.

In this German Paleography Seminar series, learn how to decipher simple German-language records by recognizing and writing letters in Kurrent, recognizing key genealogical terms, and recognizing common German names.

In this German Paleography Seminar series, learn how to decipher simple German-language records by recognizing and writing letters in Kurrent, recognizing key genealogical terms, and recognizing common German names.

In this German Paleography Seminar series, learn how to decipher simple German-language records by recognizing and writing letters in Kurrent, recognizing key genealogical terms, and recognizing common German names.