Featuring: Teresa Steinkamp Mcmillin, Certified Genealogist, the owner of Lind Street Research ----
Session 1: Getting the Most from German Church Records; ----
Session 2: Get With the Times: Newspaper Research; ----
Session 3: Adapt, Improvise and Overcome: Explore German Military Records; ----
Session 4: Case Studies Illustrate Finding German Origins; ----
Agenda for Saturday
10:00 am Welcome
10:15 am “Getting the Most from German Church Records”
This session will cover using church records effectively. The focus will be on whole family research, dealing with indexed and unindexed records, translation tools, and using records to find others efficiently.
11:15 am Break
11:30 am “Get With the Times: Newspaper Research”
Germany does not have large subscription-based websites for accessing newspapers for genealogical research. Despite that fact, thousands of digitized German newspapers are available online. Many of them are free. Learn where they are and how to access them.
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm MAGS Business Meeting
1:45 pm “Adapt, Improvise and Overcome: Explore German Military Records”
Military records for Germany are an underutilized resource. Because there was no unified Germany prior to 1871, one must search for records under prior jurisdictions. Many records have not survived. This talk will walk through the steps of finding the records that do exist.
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm “Case Studies Illustrate Finding German Origins”
This session walks through successful cases, highlighting strategies used to find a hometown.
4:00 pm Conclusion
Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, Certified Genealogist, author of the Guide to Hanover Military Records, 1514-1866 on Microfilm at the Family History Library, is the owner of Lind Street Research, a company dedicated to helping people discover their German ancestry. She has taught at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), GRIP Genealogy Institute, and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG). She created and recorded courses for Ancestry Academy and Legacy Family Tree Webinars. She is a popular speaker for national, regional, and local genealogical societies. Teresa conducts research on behalf of the U.S. Army to aid in repatriating soldiers missing from the nation’s past conflicts.
Reading German gothic script found in German records prior to the mid-1900s is second nature to her. Researching ancestors in Chicago and other areas of the Midwest is another of Teresa’s specialty areas. She is a multi-year attendee of IGHR and SLIG.
