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You’re looking for genealogy records of your ancestors in Germany,
and perhaps you’ve even found some. They might look like this:

And it makes you understand why everyone talks about how hard it is to understand
German records: Not only are you dealing with an unfamiliar language, but the script
makes the words difficult to interpret.

Most German Catholic church records are in Latin; Evangelical (Lutheran) records may
be in Latin or German. Records as late as the 1930s are usually written in the old
German Gothic script.

But there are tricks you can use to figure out what these church records say about
your German ancestors.

Our March 14 webinar, Interpreting
German Records, will teach you how to work with German genealogy records, from
basic translation to decoding hard-to-read handwriting and typeface. German genealogy
expert James M. Beidler will show you

• tricks for reading German script and type
• resources for building your vocabulary of German terms and deciphering abbreviations
• a methodology for solving the quirks of the printed Gothic/Fraktur typeface
• strategies for transcribing and translating the handwritten German cursive script

The Interpreting
German Records webinar takes place Thursday, March 14, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time
(that’s 6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain and 4 p.m. Pacific). You’ll save $10 on your
registration if you sign
up before March 7!