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Finding Your German Ancestors : A Beginner's Guide
Finding Your German Ancestors A Beginner's Guide Author:Kevan M. Hansen Introducing the first true beginner's guide to German ancestral research. If you haven't worked with German records before, this compact guide will warm up your cold feet quickly and make intimidating foreign sources seem like old friends in no time. Anyone who has worked with foreign records knows that the language can be intimidating. In o... more »rder to overcome this research barrier, author Kevan Hansen provides the tools and information that empower researchers to work comfortably with German records. Finding Your German Ancestors also offers a solution to one of the largest dilemmas German researchers face: shifting national and regional borders. Due to the continual changes of boundaries and jurisdictions in historic Germany, the types of records available vary from region to region. Finding Your German Ancestors explains the current locations of records from regions with names and boundaries that have changed. It even includes information for contacting each location! Researchers using this book will not only have a greater understanding of their ancestors' lives, but will gain a tremendous asset in finding more information on German records. Paperback, ISBN: 0-916489-83-3« less