Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about church records and parish records, primarily from the United States, Scandinavia and Germany, and using these records for genealogy records.
I have some thoughts on reading German parish microfilm – a LOT of German parish microfilm and that's a screenshot of one of many terrible pages I encountered above. This is your brain [...]
This Tuesday’s Tip is about effective FamilySearch place name searches, including how to find related places. We know the FamilySearch online library catalog is the place to go to find out what microfilm is available [...]
Are there Quakers in your family tree? Learn about free Quaker genealogy resources online in this post. But before we dive into congreation records, let's start out with a brief explanation of Quakerism from [...]
The Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin (Evangelisches Zentralarchiv) has a great collection of Lutheran parish registers from Prussia. They are from the former Prussian church provinces beyond the Oder-Neisse border. This area includes Ostpreußen, [...]
