Posts about using primary sources for genealogy research. Primary sources are created at the time of an event, such as birth, marriage, and death records.

20 Oct 2012

Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France

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Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, is the American Battlefield Monuments Commission's most visited cemetery, receiving approximately one million visitors each year. Normandy American Cemetery, taken on our visit 6 Oct 2012. The [...]

5 Oct 2012

Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin

By |5 Oct 2012|Archives, Church Records, German Genealogy, Prussian Genealogy|Comments Off on Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin

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, [...]

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