Researching Abroad. Day One
Today was day one of the Unlock The Past, sponsored genealogy feast. Part of the audience. Today was German research, with Dirk Weissleder presenting four informative talks. I have German ancestors and the information Dirk gave, will help me go further with my research. Giving us the German words for the different records will be very useful. Dirk is the President of the Federation of Family Associations. He is also a genealogy consultant and national chairman of the Deutsche Arbeisgemeinschaft genealogischer Verbande www.dagv.org This society is the umbrella organisation for genealogy and heraldry for Germany. Kerry Farmer gave a great talk on DNA. I have heard Kerry give similar talks but today it started to sink in. While I don't know how many connections I will find, I'm am going to try another company and compare my results and maybe make a connection. Rosemary Kopittke gave a presentation about My Heritage. I haven't look at this site but it soun...