Nancy Loe – “Finding Prussian Ancestors in Online Archives”
May 13 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Topic: “Finding Prussian Ancestors in Online Archives”
Speaker: Nancy Loe – for a Speaker Bio see his Speaker Biography at: https://miggs.org/nancy-loe/
Description:
Discover online records for German-speaking ancestors from Brandenburg, East Prussia,
Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, and West Prussia. Despite some record loss for these geographic
areas, hundreds of years of church and civil records can be found in archives in Poland,
Germany, and the US, using the search strategies in this presentation.
This presentation has three sections:
1. Determining Prussian Ancestral Locations Then and Now
2. Essential Online Archives for Prussian Genealogy Research
3. Search Strategies for Finding and Translating Prussian Records
Note: If you are currently a member of the Michigan Germanic Genealogical Society – you will be emailed an invitation within 7 to 10 days prior to the event from our Zoom coordinator. If you are not a member and wish to attend the event – email us at information@miggs.org to request an invitation within 7 days of the event.
