Finding Your German Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide (Finding Your Ancestors)
Finding Your German Ancestors is a brief but thorough introduction to German research. It presents the most up-to-date sources and resources for successful German research. Many German archives are accessible via the Internet, and Finding Your German Ancestors is the first reference work to include these vital contacts. And because identifying documents is key to German research, it contains sample illustrations of typical German documents, as well as contact sample information for major repositories of German records. With its straightforward approach and easy-to-read style, this book is sure to become a standard reference work for beginning German researchers.
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Book details
- Author
- Kevan Hansen
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
- Topics
- genealogy · German ancestry · family history research · German records · German archives · European heritage · beginner genealogy
- ISBN-13
- 9780916489830 (Paperback)9781630263324 (Hardcover)
About the author
KEVAN M. HANSEN is an American genealogist and author of more than fifty volumes in the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series, a multi-volume reference covering individual German states and provinces. He is also the author of Finding Your German Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide.
Hansen specializes in German-ancestry research, with his work focused on helping family historians identify the parishes and church records relevant to their German ancestors. His writing covers historical context, record types, and repositories.