FamilySearch -- 5 Day Western European Family History Conference
(Virtual or in person) [15-19 May 2017]
The NGS 2017 Family History Conference will have just ended and so you have some time to further your education even more!
From our friends at FamilySearch …
Salt Lake
City, Utah (26 March 2017), FamilySearch’s world-renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake
City, Utah, will be offering its free Western European Family
History Conference, May 15 to May 19, 2017. Guests can attend classes in person or online. The conference
will focus exclusively on select Western European research and is intended for
beginning and intermediate researchers. Classes are free, but registration is
required due to class size and webinar bandwidth limitations. For more
information or to register, go to FamilySearch
Wiki. Easily find and share this news release online in the FamilySearch
Newsroom.
Classes
will be taught by the Family History Library’s staff of experts and guest
genealogists. Content will focus primarily on how to
research records from Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands,
Luxembourg, and Belgium. Topics
addressed will include census, church, immigration, and vital records.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Use the following links to register for desired conference
classes online or in the library: in-person
guests or webinar
guests.
DATE / TIME
|
CLASS (SKILL
LEVEL)
|
WEBINAR |
CLASSROOM
|
Mon, 15-May, 9:00 AM
|
Finding
German Places of Origin (Intermediate)
|
|
Mon, 15-May, 10:15 AM
|
Spelling
Variations in German Given and Place Names (Intermediate)
|
|
Mon, 15-May, 11:30 AM
|
Meyers
German Gazetteer Now Online, Indexed and Fully Searchable (Beginner)
|
|
Mon, 15-May, 2:00 PM
|
German
Church Records and Beyond: Deepen Your Research Using a
Variety of Town Records (Intermediate)
|
|
Mon, 15-May, 3:15 PM
|
Elusive
Immigrant: Methods of Proving Identity (Intermediate)
|
|
Tue, 16-May, 9:00 AM
|
Finding Your
French Ancestors Online Part 1 (Intermediate)
|
|
Tue, 16-May, 10:15 AM
|
Finding Your
French Ancestors Online Part 2 (Intermediate)
|
|
Tue, 16-May, 11:30 AM
|
Finding Your
French Ancestors Online Part 3 (Intermediate)
|
|
Tue, 16-May, 2:00 PM
|
Out of the
Ashes of Paris (Intermediate)
|
|
Tue, 16-May, 3:15 PM
|
Research in
Alsace-Lorraine (Intermediate)
|
|
Wed, 17-May, 9:00 AM
|
Latin for
Researchers (Intermediate)
|
|
Wed, 17-May, 10:15 AM
|
Calendar
Changes in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Low
Countries (Intermediate)
|
|
Wed, 17-May, 11:30 AM
|
Gazetteers
and Maps for Belgium, Luxembourg, and the
Netherlands
(Intermediate)
|
|
Wed, 17-May, 2:00 PM
|
Beginning
Research in Luxembourg (Beginner)
|
|
Wed, 17-May, 3:15 PM
|
Beginning
Research in Belgium (Beginner)
|
|
Thur,
18-May, 9:00 AM
|
Names in
Belgium and the Netherlands (Intermediate)
|
|
Thur,
18-May, 10:15 AM
|
WieWasWie,
Past the Index: What to do Next (Intermediate)
|
|
Thur,
18-May, 11:30 AM
|
Dutch
Provincial and City Research (Intermediate)
|
|
Thurs,
18-May, 2:00 PM
|
Dutch
Research Before 1811 (Intermediate)
|
|
Thu, 18-May, 3:15 PM
|
Finding Your
Family in the Amazing Online Amsterdam City Archives
(Intermediate)
|
|
Fri, 19-May, 9:00 AM
|
Beginning
Swiss Research Part 1 (Beginner)
|
|
Fri, 19-May, 10:15 AM
|
Beginning
Swiss Research Part 2 (Beginner)
|
|
Fri, 19-May, 11:30 AM
|
Swiss
Archives Online Records (Intermediate)
|
|
Fri, 19-May, 2:00 PM
|
Swiss Census
Records (Beginner)
|
|
Fri, 19-May, 3:15 PM
|
Swiss
Chorgericht Records (Intermediate)
|
|
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