Beginning Germanic Research
Finding your German-speaking Ancestors. We will explore ways to identify the village your ancestor came from and locate civil and church records. We will tackle the language and handwriting to help you find your folks. And there will be a bit of history as boundaries shifted.
A Zoom link will be added a week before the program for those who are unable to drive to the Library.
Speaker: Julia Hanneman-Schoenbach.
Julia Hanneman-Schoenbach has been exploring family history for over 40 years. She has Pommeranian and Saxony German roots, as well as Luxembourg, Norwegian, and Cornish (Cornwall, England) ancestors, She has also helped her husband with his Bavarian, Posen, and Hungarian ancestors. ; She is active in the Waterford Genealogical Society, where she is the second Tuesday evening of the month convenor (first 30 minutes for any Germanic questions); she also belongs to the Cornish Connection of Lower Michigan, and Southwest Wisconsin Cornish Society She grew up around Milwaukee Wisconsin. She is a speaker registered with the Michigan Genealogical Council. Continuing to work as a chaplain, she lives in Waterford, MI with her husband.
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