Discover the Holdings of German Archives

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Very informative - lot of useful information and detailed directions for use of the websites. Thank you\n\nVery informative and helpful!! Many thanks!\n\nVery informative- -and over my head as far as not reading or speaking German. Would like to listen to it again to fill in some pertinent info that I undoubtedly missed, and research areas to go over again. Excellent webinar and hostess.\n\nVery informative and the handout was excellent. I am going to watch all of Theresa's webinars!\n\nVery informative on the various archives and contents\n\nvery informative gives me ideas to pursue\n\nVery informative! The syllabus is a great resource!\n\nVery informative. Syllabus has great links. Concerned a little about the german language, but practice will help. Can't wait to get started.\n\nVery interesting\n\nVery interesting and helpful.\n\nVery Interesting. Great Syllabus. Thank You.\n\nVery knowegable!\n\nVery knowledgable presenter. Enjoyed it!\n\nVery knowledgeable speaker, provided a wealth of information!\n\nVery knowledgeable, great presentation, and excellent handout. The only disappointment was that it didn't specifically cover any of my own ancestral areas.\n\nVery logical arrangement made it easy to follow, despite the abundance of info; significantly enhanced my knowledge of the subject.\n\nVery useful\n\nVery well done. This will help me a lot finding my German ancestors.\n\nVery well done--sure wished that I knew German. It would make things so much easier.\n\nVery well organized. A great deal of thought went into the webinar and the handout.\n\nVery well organized. Thank you.\n\nVery well presented.\n\nWell done and well presented.\n\nWell done. Thank you!\n\nWell prepared and well delivered. \n\nwell presented. A lot of information!\n\nWell presented. My German is not and so difficult for me. \n\nwell thought out and well versed\n\nWhat a treasure trove of great information relevant to my research! Thank you!\n\nWonderful information and resources\n\nWonderful speaker. Has given me the incentive to start researching my 2nd gr and 3rd gr grandfathers.\n\nwonderful syllabus and webinar!\n\nWonderful webinar on German Arcives.\n\nWonderful!\n\nWould be helpful if I had German ancestry.\n\nwould like to see her do a follow-up on subject specialized or smaller archives in Germany--lots to mine here.\n\nWow - great presentation! \n\nWow! Such a wealth of knowlege, and a good presenter.\n\nWow. I will be watching this again. So much information to take in\n\nWow. This was possibly the best webinar I have ever seen. Theresa Steinkamp McMillan packed so much into it. The handout will be so useful. I have done some German church record work and speak a little of German, but didnt realize how much I didnt know until tonight. This will keep me busy for years. Thanks so much, I hope you have her again.\n\nWow-I don't think I will ever get to the right place to research!!! so involved

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   So much new information to investigate!\n\nSpeaker was very knowledgeable on subject.\n\nSuperb presentation\n\nSuperb presentation--very helpful as all my immigrant ancestors came from German speaking areas of Europe in the 19th century!\n\nSuperb! well organized, well paced, and very relevant to my current brick wall!\n\nsyllabus will be very helpful when I can follow up on what I've learned--thank you so much\n\nTeresa gave an easy to follow presentation. I found it very interesting and look forward to trying some of the sites to search.\n\nTeresa is a wonderful speaker - she explains things well and she has so much knowledge. Truly a master genealogist. \n\nTeresa is so thorough and her syllabus are outstanding! She is a great communicator and you cannot but learn from her presentations! I can feel my German ancestors getting closer to me!\n\nTeresa is the best there is on Germany. One thing is that she goes sooooo fast, but she covers a lot in a short period of time and I like that. Expand time I am not bored!!! I also wish she would show pics as she goes along on the websites so we could do that later when we forget. Don't know if she is allowed? Syllabus is excellent otherwise. I am from IL and know of the Arlington Hts Library- it is wonderful. I now live in AZ. When I see Teresa is giving a webinar I try to attend. Thank you!!!!\n\nTeresa was awesome. This webinar makes me want to watch all of her past webinars that are in the libray.\n\nTeresa was very informative in finding German records other than Church records. Would like to hear from her again . Thank you for having her. \n\nTeresa's lecture was excellent. I look forward to watching it again. \n\nThank you!\n\nThank you! \n\nThank you, there is so much I don't know\n\nThank you. Really enjoyed it. Very helpful. Have lots to explore.\n\nthanks for all of the information.\n\nThe handout was very informative and a great resource for the future. Explained the language for searching which will be very beneficial.\n\nThe presenter certain "knows her stuff". I will need to slowly work through this webinar, since I do not read nor speak German.\n\nThis should keep me busy for a long time, lots to research!\n\nThis was so organized and thorough - thank you!! I will be looking at the Schleswig-Holstein archives and the Berlin archives records. \n\nThis was so wonderful! Awesome job. Thank you!\n\nThis was such a amazing webinar and handout with so much information. The presentation was well organized with so many suggestions for German resources. It was just exceptional.\n\nThis webinar was extremely helpful now that I have discovered the home locations of my German ancestors. \n\nThoroughly enjoyed this webinar. Now I just need the time to do all my research. Thank you for this. to watch over.\n\nUseful information that I am eager to try.\n\nVery clear, detailed and interesting.\n\nVery clear. Presenting information that was new to me. Sorry I had to leave early.\n\nVery detailed with excellent resources. Guess I've got a lot more work to do. But, thank you for opening my eyes to a broader horizon of research. \n\nVery enlightening.\n\nvery good but presented a bit fast due to the foreign language aspect\n\nVery good information and easy to follow, even though I will have to learn some German words to find what I'm looking for. The syllabus is filled with great information. Thank you so much!\n\nVery good presentation. Well organized, interesting, and full of new info. Great how-tos. Very good handout.\n\nVery good webinar. An advanced class for German research. Thank you\n\nVery good. Nice to be able to get a free syllabus with references.\n\nVery good. Useful hints and advice. Thanks. \n\nvery goood\n\nVery helpful and informative; thanks so much!\n\nVery helpful in exploring online sites!\n\nVery impressed with the speaker's knowledge of not only archives, but types of resources to German researchers as well.\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative\n\nVERY INFORMATIVE

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   It was great! Very informative, great speaker!\n\nIt was great. I especially appreciated the information on Wurttemberg.\n\nIt was interesting to tour some of the German online archives. Teresa threw a few crumbs regarding Alsace Lorraine; an area my ancester came from in the 1800's. I will pursue those crumbs.\n\nIt was packed with information. I'm looking forward to digging into the citations that she provided.\n\nIt was quite over my head.\n\nIt was very informative and enjoyable.\n\nI've been doing German research for a long time. Have used some of the resources but learned how to maximize my search effectiveness AND some new resources as well\n\nknowing a little more of our German history might have helped in following. Thanks\n\nKnowledgeable host - and I have numerous practical resources to help me research!! Thansk!\n\nLearned a lot about researching the online records in the archives. Didn't realize so much was available. Thanks.\n\nLike drinking German language from a fire hose! Difficult to break the language barrier, but I will come back and review it again as I get better. But nonetheless great information.\n\nLoads of wonderful information, well-formatted and well-presented.\n\nLots of great information. Well presented, and love the numbered references as she spoke. Made it very easy!\n\nLOTS of information, the handout is great!\n\nLots of knowledge on the subject-all phases\n\nLots of materials to learn\n\nlots to learn\n\nMore advanced than I expected.\n\nMs. McMillin always offers great seminars rich with lots of invaluable information and suggestions. She did not disappoint this time either!\n\nMs. McMillin spoke very well and clearly about searching in Germany's archives, and always helpful to see links to links and what the speaker is looking at. I appreciate all her insights as I was not sure where to start for an 1890 departure gleaned from a US naturalization doc. I've noticed that Bavaria is not a common place of research and wonder why.\n\nNice presentation, Thank you.\n\nNOW I JUST NEED TO PRACTICE GERMAN & ESPECIALLY OLD GERMAN SCRIPT\n\nOh my goodness, what is not to love!!!!!\n\nOutstanding\n\nOutstanding!!! Thank you.\n\nPresenter was very knowledgeable and I appreciate the information that she shared, especially in the syllabus. I am very new to German research--the information in the webinar may have been a little too advanced for me at this point but I will file it away for future use.\nRather late viewing time in UK so hope to be able to watch again as too much good information to remember; uncertain how to obtain syllabus (arrived a few minutes late and took some time to get sound etc..).\n\nREALLY appreciated all the information in the syllabus! \n\nReally good information/links to resources.\n\nReally well organized and presented. The topic is very complex but the presented did a good job of simplifying and explaining for the participants.\n\nSadly, I was distracted by family matters while attending the webinar. I also had problems logging in in a timely fashion. I will have to listen to the webinar again to get the full benefit. The resource guide provided will be an excellent edition to my resource files! Thank you! \n\nShe did have a good overview. \n\nSince the majority of my ancestors were in West Prussia and Germany, I am eager to investigate the German archives that Teresa explained in her webinar.\n\nSo much great info into resources much deeper than one usually sees. Love it!\n\nSo much info - I admit to being a little overwhelmed! Maybe break it down into two?\n\nSo much information packed into this one hour--really worth the time. The speaker knows her subject.\n\nSO much information that I never heard about! Wonderful!

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Good speaker, very knowledgeable about topic presenting it well.\n\nGreat overview. Showing HOW to find things on websites of German archives. Showing multiple examples so we know one size does not fit all. Explaining archive etiquette so that we can communicate better with people when making inquiries or arrangements. It's not often in genealogy that we get to have the "human touch".\n\nGreat presentation\n\ngreat presentation\n\nGreat presentation by Teresa. Will be checking out her blog for more valuable hints. \n\nGreat presentation. Thank you for the detailed handout/resource guide, I'm looking forward to diving in to research at the German archives!\n\nGreat presenter with a strong command of the material.\n\nGreat speaker! Organized, speaks slowly following her cursor. Useful information.\n\nGreat speaker. A little hard to follow all the German website information - will I ever remember how to do it??\n\nGreat syllabus material - thank you\n\ngreat webinar with great information! I'm hopeful I can find my hiding German ancestor!!! \n\nGreat webinar. Thank you! : )\n\nI do not speak German so it was difficult to understand. Very enlightening to know about all of the archives available\n\nI don't feel like I am the only one out there that needs German research help anymore! I feel reassured that I can tackle a few German research online websites! \n\nI feel more confident to try researching in Germany now. Wonderful presentation.\n\nI had already found some church records for my great grandparents in a small town but now see I have a lot more to look up! Thank you for a very good & uncomplicated webinar.\n\nI have been doing research for a number of years, so a lot of the information I already know, but there is always something new in every one of these learning opportunities\n\nI have too many brick walls to break down before I can experience and appreciate what was being said. Still, I Wanted to iknow. \n\nI haven’t jumped to German research yet so it was above my head, but.....very informative and interesting \n\nI hope I can repeat viewing tomorrow morning, because despite the syllabus, I needed to take more notes!\n\nI joined late. Enjoyed what I did hear. Thank you.\n\nI learned a lot! Thanks\n\nI would like to be able to review this presentation again.\nI really enjoyed this webinar. Teresa is extremely knowledgable regarding German Genealogy research. She gave us a lot of information in a short time and with the Syllabus it was very easy to follow and understand. Excellent presentation on German Genealogy.\n\nI was blown away by the level of information packed into the syllabus, and Teresa's knowledge to quickly respond to the many questions thrown at her. FANTASTIC!\n\nI wish I could expect to go to Germany again. \n\nInspired me to pursue German research further....early to mid 1700s to Pennsylvania....Lutheran\n\nInteresting even not lilkely to use\n\nInteresting!

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5. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   A good introduction to the next steps to take to find out more on my greatgrandparents who emigrated to Queensland in 1874. I would love to research their ancestors from Prussia, Mecklenburg, and you have given some hints.\n\nA TON of information shared! Very excited to start exploring! Thank you!\n\nABSOLUTELY AWESOME WEBINAR!\n\nAbsolutely Brilliant webinar containing a gold mine of information for researching German Genealogy.\n\nAn excellent and very helpful presentation.\n\nAwesome detail. Thank you\n\nBroadens my understanding of techniques and what is available.\n\nclear, concise, given me a lot more optimism about breaking through some of my German brick walls. Thank You\n\nEven after researching for 20 years, this information about German archives is all new. Wonderful and well presented information.\n\nExcellent\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent info well presented and organized. Thank you!\n\nExcellent info. Much went by fairly fast, and wished there were more detail in the handout, as a result.\n\nexcellent information\n\nExcellent information and speaker.\n\nExcellent information. \n\nExcellent overall. I am interested in a copy of the powerpoint and the questions and answers. \n\nExcellent overview of genealogical research in German Archives.\n\nExcellent presentation - the background material presented made the focus of the presentation easy to follow\n\nExcellent presentation and information.\n\nExcellent presentation by very knowledgeable presenter. Thanks so much.\n\nExcellent presentation for a topic that can be very over-whelming.\n\nExcellent presentation on German Research in the Archives. Thank you!\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nexcellent presentation, I will need to watch it another time for particulars referencing Bavaria and Hessen. Thank you\n\nExcellent presenter and resources.\n\nExcellent speaker who absolutely knew her topics, was able to answer all the questions with grace. Very informative syllabus. Thank you BCG and Legacy.\n\nExcellent speaker. the topic was clearly presented and the handout is excellent!\n\nExcellent webinar and resources\n\nExcellent webinar, looking forward to researching! \n\nExcellent webinar. \n\nExcellent webinar. Lots of great information. Teresa is an excellent presenter.\n\nExcellent! \n\nExcellent, even for the experienced researcher! \n\nExcellent. She went very fast, but that's because she had so much info to share.\n\nExtremely well organized; learned a lot.\n\nFabulous webinar and resources.\n\nFabulous. Glad it was so detailed.\n\nFantastic presentation and syllabus. Thank you!\n\nFantastic presentation. So well organized. I have done a lot of German research and have used a few archives there, but now I can see so much more to do from home and will need to use Google Translate a lot.\n\nfantastic webinar and handout!\n\nFantastic! So much valuable information with a great presentation! \n\nFascinating topic. As someone who is just getting started in researching German family history, I was definitely overwhelmed but there is much to learn and pursue in the future.\n\nFirst time attending one of Teresa'a webinars. Really enjoyed the structure of her presentation. Will have to go to the Legacy archive and look for others she has done.\n\nFull of information I didn't know.\n\nGives me hope that I can start my German research on two major lines\n\ngood information

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