I’d like to thank you not only for answering my question, but also for recording the Webinar, since I ended up having to work and couldn’t make the original time. I learned a lot. Really appreciate it.
Family History Q&A: Your genealogy questions answered
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by Esther ·
- November 20, 2013
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This week our three genealogy experts, Laurence Harris, Schelly Talalay Dardashti, and Daniel Horowitz joined us as panelists for our webinar, Family History Q&A.
We assisted many users with their genealogy “brick walls,” and provided numerous hints and tips for furthering genealogy research.
Didn’t get a chance to join? Don’t worry! Click on the video below to watch the full webinar.
Don’t forget to check our other webinars for even more genealogy tips to help make family history research easier.
Have more tips to advance genealogy research? Let us know in the comments below!
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I finally found out that I need to include city, county, state, USA for place names in the USA. How do I ascertain to write for cities in Europe for example? There are several different ways I could do it:
Example, Basdahl, Rotenburg-Wuermme, Niedersachsen, Germany
or simply: Basdahl, Niedersachsen, Germany…..What is the preferred method and how to I get that information online?
Pavel Vaňač
November 20, 2013
Hello, please help with finding ancestors in the family rodokemu Vaňáč and Rajtora. The problem I have with the database – payment directly from Czech reupbliky, the journey across the U.S. to complicated. MyHertage is a great program and very much helped me. Thank you very much.