Course enrollment: GR-103 - German: Locating Places in Germany

Purchase the enrollment for the course 'German: Locating Places in Germany' at https://genealogicalstudies.com All genealogical research is ultimately local in origin. Our ancestors lived in specific places, and the records about them were usually created in those places where they lived. Even records of larger jurisdictions, such as at the national level (e.g.: census records), were generally written by officials in the specific place where a family lived. Further, it is through a family’s location that we, in part, identify them. Not only is it important to know a person’s name, birth date and relationships (parents, spouse, children), but also the place where a person lived (or was born, married, or died). All of these elements are necessary to fully, and uniquely, identify a person. Locating places in Germany is an important aspect of successful German research. For researchers, this begins with learning the correct place where a German immigrant camefrom; his ancestral home. From