This course will help you understand the rectangular survey system and the distribution of public lands. You will also learn about state land systems.

This lesson will help you learn where you can locate military pension files which will serve as a basis for furthering your research in finding your ancestors.

Researching in Switzerland can be rather quirky but very rewarding. Learn how to use those quirks to find your Swiss ancestors in records available in the FamilySearch Library, in Swiss archives and online.

How to locate Presbyterian ancestry in Ireland.

Learn about 300 independent territories that have now merged to become modern Germany and how to find their records.

This class is designed to give family history researchers who read little or no German a basic working knowledge of old German script.

This class is designed to give family history researchers who read little or no German a basic working knowledge of old German script.

Learn how to read Latin birth, marriage and death records.

Explore billions of records in the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union to find family across different eras, from tsars to the Soviet Republics.

This class is designed to give family history researchers who read little or no German a basic working knowledge of old German script.