This 8-minute video shows the ins and outs of using the online gazetteer Ortsnamen to find your specific village in Switzerland.
Swiss town court records. Identify documents to verify your Swiss ancestors in Canton Bern and breathe some life into your ancestors' lives.
This class will discuss the known census records and how to access them.*The link for the Basel census in the handout and found at minute 21:30-24:40 no longer works.*
Learn about online church records, censuses, citizenship lists and other resources to help you find your Swiss ancestors.*The Learning Center demonstrated from minutes 2:00-3:30 is no longer the same. The functionality of the page has changed. The website demonstrated from 38:30-42:45 is slightly different.*
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.
This course explores how to find and use online records for Swiss research. We look at what is available from FamilySearch Wiki, how to find and use the website for a Swiss Canton, and what records are available online from FamilySearch.
Stuck in your Swiss research? Find out how to thoroughly analyze the records about your ancestors to find additional clues. Learn about the full information contained in birth, marriage, and death records, as well as other lesser-used record types that can help you break through your brick walls.
This computer lab class will focus on online resources to help identify surnames and places, as well as showing new ways to maximize your research in Switzerland.
This class will cover the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the French Republican Calendar.