This class will cover the main gazetteers and maps for the Low Countries, some of which are online.*The website at minute 26 is slightly different; however, the functionality and results stay the same. Also, the website found at 44:30 is not currently functional.*
Looking for ancestors in Poland? This class discusses the historical changes of Poland that affected the records of your ancestor. Come learn about resources to identify where your Polish town is located and where to find records.
This five part course teaches the basics of Ireland jurisdictions. This is important because records are kept by various government and religious entities and these often divide the land into jurisdictions in which our ancestors lived. In other words, knowing the extent of government and religious jurisdictions helps us understand the records they kept so we are more likely to find our ancestors in them. It also demonstrates a few favorite resources for understanding the jurisdictions and using that understanding to find records. The entire class will take you 1:00:08 to finish.
In this segment you will learn about the different gazetteers.
This segment will discuss different maps that can help in your research.
In this segment you will learn about the religious jurisdictions of Ireland.
This segment will cover the different government jurisdictions in Ireland.
Learn how to use this tool that has been indexed and linked to old maps to find information on civil and religious jurisdictions and nearby parishes.
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 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.
Locate your Germans from Russia ancestor's records by determining their hometown using online resources, published works, and gazetteers.
Want to figure out where the records of your German ancestors are? Come and learn what historical geography is and how it affected where to look for records. We'll be talking about what exactly 'Germany' is and tools on how to identify where to go next for records.
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