Michigan Germanic Genealogical Society
Exploring Michigan's Germanic family history heritage.
Speaker: Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, Certified Genealogist® Description: Germans began immigrating to the United States in 1683, according to documented history. This talk will highlight significant aspects of the first four major waves of migration, through 1910. The areas from which they came and motivations that typified each wave will be detailed. Available immigration and emigration records ... Read more
Speaker: Paula Stuart-Warren, CG® FMGS, FUGA "They Joined, They Associated: Finding Records of Germanic Organizations and Other Collections" U. S. libraries, historical societies, archives, and university library special collections sections hold the records from many organizations that our Germanic ancestors joined. The organization may have been a German heritage, charitable, religious, resettlement, political, ... Read more
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 ... Read more
