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 Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Learn How to Interpret German Genealogy Records
Posted by Diane
You're looking for genealogy records of your ancestors in Germany,
and perhaps you've even found some. They might look like this:
And it makes you understand why everyone talks about how hard it is to
understand German records: Not only are you dealing with an
unfamiliar language, but the script makes the words difficult to
interpret.
Most German Catholic church records are in Latin; Evangelical
(Lutheran) records may be in Latin or German. Records as late as the 1930s are usually
written in the old German Gothic script.
But there are tricks you can use to figure out what these church
records say about your German ancestors.
Our March 14 webinar,
Interpreting German Records, will teach you how to work with German
genealogy records, from basic translation to decoding hard-to-read
handwriting and typeface. German genealogy expert James M. Beidler will
show you
- tricks for reading German script and type
- resources for building your vocabulary of German terms and
deciphering abbreviations
- a methodology for solving the quirks of the printed
Gothic/Fraktur typeface
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strategies for transcribing and translating the handwritten
German cursive script
The Interpreting German Records webinar takes place Thursday, March 14, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time
(that's 6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain and 4 p.m. Pacific). You'll
save $10 on your registration if you sign up before March 7!
Family Tree University | German roots | Webinars
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:23:54 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) 
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