Have you found a German ancestor’s birth in a church record and thought his name was a certain way, only to find his marriage or death recor…

In this presentation, you will learn to use Kevan Hansen’s “Map Guide to German Parish Registers” series to find the Lutheran or Catholic parish for a given town, determine whether or not the FamilySearch Library has records for a given parish, and determine which parishes should be included in an area search.

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.

In this class you will be instructed on the use of a very large set of databases available on Genealogy.net. You will become familiar on the many sources that can help you in your German. There are 8 databases which can be searched at this site including family trees.

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Family History Library free webinars for March 2022 will feature Latin Handwriting, US Church Records, El registro civil de Uruguay, Family Tree, Indexing, and more. Check out what's new!

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