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Places and Ethnicities Germany

German Internet Research: A Launching Place for Your Research

James M. Beidler
Jun 11, 2014
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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FamilySearch
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Ancestry
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Genealogy.net
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The Language
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Most Common Questions
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Village of Origin
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City of Origin
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Garbled Village Names
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Old Country Relatives
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German Archives
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Church Records
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German Researchers
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Prizes/announcements
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Internet research for German ancestors is not as fully developed as it is for North American or British ancestors, but don't let that stop you! There is a significant subscription site, along with some important indexes, original and compiled, records online. Fortunately, the number of actual records online is growing at a significant rate. Other German genealogy sites provide important information about places or sources. Indeed, your research will suffer if you don't use the Internet for your German research.

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James M. Beidler
James M. Beidler, Interim Executive Director for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, is the author of four commercially published genealogy books as well as writing “
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