Were your ancestors German in one set of records and Prussian in another? Prussian research, especially locations, can be complicated by shifting borders, languages, and religions. Discover leading and lesser-known online resources to decipher geographic locations of German-speaking ancestors from Prussia (Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, West Prussia). This presentation has three sections: 1. Prussian? German? Or Both? 2. Helpful Tools for Prussian Research 3. Essential Online Geographic Resources for Prussia.
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Terrific information - well organized. Great presentation by speaker and great class management skills by moderator\n\nThank you for a interesting webinar.\n\nThank you for all of the information! Can't wait to applying it! Blessings!\n\nThank you Nancy!!! \n\nThank you!\n\nThe speaker were very quickly and lost me. it is possible this is too advanced for me at this time\n\nThe speakers is well informed about the subject and presented the material in an easy to understand format. I learned a lot and enjoyed the presentation. Thank you very much.\n\nThis is one I'll watch several times--so much information.\n\nThis is the first time I attended live. I have only been a member for less than a month. \n\nThis was a great webinar with loads of wonderful information. Thank you Nancy!!\n\nThis was an excellent survey of what appear to be especially helpful resources. Thx!\n\nThis was extremely helpful Thank you\n\nThis was of particular interest to me, because I have ancestors from Posen and now I have places to look for more information. Thank you so much Nancy Loe\n\nThis webinar offered step-by-step instructions which will be helpful to me. It was nice to hear encouraging words from the speaker in relation to reading and understanding German for our research.\n\nThis webinar was a great resource for me as I try to find my Prussian/Polish ancestors!!!\n\nTime went quickly - loads of useful info. Thank you.\n\nUseful, but I'll need to watch it again, and probably again.\n\nvery clear information, well presented\n\nThanks so much\n\nVery comprehensive - so much to take in.\n\nVery good information! I will need to watch again to be able to absorb all the new information! Thank you for doing these webinars!\n\nVery good information. Thank you.\n\nVery good.\n\nvery helpful\n\nVery helpful in researching my Prussian ancestors. Thanks!\n\nVery helpful.\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative and she is a great speaker explaining everything she says\n\nvery informative in such a short time\n\nVery informative presentation. Thank you! : )\n\nVery informative presentation. Thank you.\n\nvery informative!\n\nVery informative. Thanks!\n\nVery interesting and helpful information\n\nVery interesting, I am not ready for such in-depth research yet but heard some things that I know will be helpful. Thank You\n\nVery knowledgeable presenter - with good examples and great reference websites!\n\nVery useful information\n\nVery useful information, very glad I signed up. Just purchased her ebook! \n\nVery very knowledgeable \n\nVery well done and lots of information. Thanks\n\nvery well done!!\n\nVery well organized presentation.\n\nvery well organized with loads of resources\n\nWealth of information\n\nWish you had higher ratings for this survey. \n\nGreat presentation!\n\nwonderful outstanding information. I got more information from this webinar than I ever contemplated. great!\n\nWonderful presentation - Thank You!\n\nWonderful presentation!\n\nWOW\n\nWow! This was fabulous. Thank you!
Fantastic help for me researching those German and Polish towns.\n\nFantastic presentation. Helpful websites. Thank you\n\nFantastic! Now I know where and how to start. Thank you\n\nfound it to be very helpful and interesting. Mange takk..\n\nGave a lot of info on how to find sites and families. \n\nGreat Resources ....thanks. My husband's grandfather was born in Posen, Michigan .. and from that area, so lots helpful.\n\nGreat help to me! Thanks for the time and talent.\n\nGreat info especially the part about Berlin being on the paperwork when coming from Germany to U.S. as that is what has happened to me. So now I know I have to do some searching to find out where they did come from and it was mentioned how to do that at the beginning so I will listen to it again. Thank you.\n\ngreat information\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information - thank you. \n\nGreat information about Prussia and German. The Gazetteers, Church too\n\nGreat information for me! Thanks!\n\nGreat information which was well presented and explained.\n\nGreat information! Will be watching this webinar again!\n\nGreat information. Lots to research and learn. Thank you\n\nGreat information. Thank you\n\nGreat information--a little faster than I can process. I will have to listen to it, again, and follow up on some of the links and other ideas shared. \n\ngreat info--thank you!\n\ngreat much to think about thank you\n\nGreat new information. have her back again\n\nGreat presentation & nicely paced. Even with my ancestors from Wurttemberg, not Prussia, I found it useful for my research. Thanks!\n\nGreat presentation and nice style of speaking. Very informative.\n\nGreat presentation! Concise & informative.\n\ngreat presentation.\n\nGreat presentation. Going looking for my 1194 AD von Diedenshausen family. Wife's 22 ggf!\n\nGreat presentation. I've been researching Prussia for decades and still learned new resources. Loved her pacing and organization.\n\nGreat presentation-so helpful- I want to drop everything and start researching all the great websites listed!\n\nGreat presenter and facilitator. Super informative, detailed visual examples helped tremendously!\n\nGreat presenter! Clear, organized and so much great helpful information!\n\ngreat resources. I can't wait to try some of them!\n\nGreat syllabus and presentation. Plenty of new information to explore. Thank you!\n\nGreat webinar\n\nGreat Webinar. A must-watch for researchers starting out in Prussian research.\n\nGreat!\n\nI always appreciate the good information.\n\nI am just starting researching my husband's family and they are from the Prussian partition of Poland. Having to mentally switch from Galician records in Polish and Latin to Fraktur and German has been daunting. This was so helpful -- and timely...\n\nI appreciated all the different sources for research, and tips.\n\nI have been researching for many years. This is the best webinar I have attended in ages. Very useful targeted information. Thank you!\n\nI liked her voice, and the speed which was not too fast. I may be contacting Nancy to do some research on my grandfather's background in Pommern.\n\nI really enjoyed this presentation on Researching Ancestral Locations in Prussian Genealogy Records and am looking forward to trying out the links. Thank you!\n\nI think this was challenging subject matter, but Nancy did a tremendous job. Good webinar. \n\nWhen mentioning different kinds of German script please show samples eg.Fractur.\n\nI'm glad she has her e-mail & newsletter\n\nInformative excellent well prepared \n\ninteresting new sites and methods\n\nInteresting, and helpful. I will look up some of the websites and resources mentioned. Looking forward to more webinars in the future.\n\nThank you.\n\nIt was generally very good and I have a lot of new resources to investigate.
It was great!\n\nIt was very helpful.\n\nLearned a lot about good Prussia research. Presenter did a great job. I appreciate her advice and knowledge about this topic. \n\nLearned a lot. We might join. Very will done.\n\nLearned way more than I thought. I now need a lot of time to research my relatives from the area. I really did not know how to research this area until now.\n\nLots of excellent resources, including translation assistance sites I was not yet aware of. Well done presentation.\n\nLots of good information.\n\nLots of helpful information\n\nlots of info. well presented too!\n\nLots of information\n\nLots of work to do but this definitely will help! Thank you for a most informative session!\n\nLoved it! This will help me tremendously in my searches!\n\nMany thanks to Nancy -\n\nMore on translation websites for German to English\n\nMost interesting and helpful. Thank you.\n\nMy German (Prussian) GGPs are my problem children so now have a bit more info to use to find out about them.\n\nNancy has a way of making things sound easy and her handouts are outstanding!\n\nOutstanding presentation. Loved it.\n\noutstanding\n\nOverwhelming amount of good info! \n\nreally comprehensive & informative\n\nReally good webinar as she shows the difference between Prussia and how it could be German and could be Polish and how sometimes the records overlap. When the records overlap, you don't have to be so afraid that you will not find what you are looking for because it expands the number of places to look--what a relief! The webinar put a lot of things together in the same place.\n\nReally great presentation! Nancy took a huge subject and distilled the most important information without going off on the many tangents possible in this area ;-)\n\nShe had a wealth of information. It was very informative.\n\nSo helpful.\n\nSo much info great work Thanks\n\nSo-o-o-o much info. Excellent!\n\nSpeaker was fabulous \n\nStarting German research is a little overwhelming and this helped with good places to start and what kinds of things I will find and probably saved me lots of time in learning curve the hard way. Thank you.\n\nTake aways - FS Place Search, Kartenmeister, & Polish Friends. Good beginner intro
A lot of new sources to use. Thanks!\n\nAlmost too much information\n\nAlthough I have listened to other webinars or speakers on doing German research, I found almost all the information new and relevant. Thanks so much Nancy!\n\nAmazing information, can't wait to use your resources.\n\nAn excellent presentation. I learned a lot and was glad it covered Eastern Europe. \n\nAnother great web. So glad I have a Webinar Membership as I will return to this presentation often!!!\n\nAppreciate that have shared with us what you have learned over the past many years about German/Prussian Genealogy.\n\nAs a member to have access to video and handouts as follow-up to information and great useful sites.\n\nAwesome presentation with so much helpful information\n\nclear and vary helpful - thanks!\n\nClear, concise and helpful!\n\nclear, detailed, logical presentation of information. Thanks!\n\nClear, interesting presentation of a great deal of information of practical use. Thank you.\n\nVery good presentation.\n\nExcellelnt material! \n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent information and resources!\n\nExcellent information.\n\nExcellent information. Very well presented.\n\nExcellent information. Now a lifetime of research!\n\nExcellent job by Nancy. Bring her back to give more information on Prussian research!\n\nExcellent material. The handout is a partiularly good idea so people can focus on the speaker without worrying about writing material down and losing track of the spoken mateial.\n\nexcellent presentation\n\nExcellent presentation of Prussian-relevant resources, and a nice flow of a geographic approach to working with Prussian records. The presenter was very knowledgeable and provided really good examples to illustrate the different resources. Well done!\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation, Nancy.\n\nExcellent presentation. Easy listening, a good pace. Lots of rabbit holes to explore. \n\nExcellent presentation. Much to take in. Handouts and chat notes essential to keep.\n\nExcellent speaker: style and content were both excellent! Thank you, Legacy! And, thank you, Nancy!\n\nExcellent webinar!!! Nancy gave me so many more resources to work with in my ancestor search. Thank you!!!\n\nExcellent webinar. It was full of important information and resources. Thank you.\n\nExcellent webinar. This was one of the most helpful with new websites to try to find my ancestors. Excellent!\n\nExcellent! A lot of great information.\n\nExcellent! Very informative!\n\nExcellent!!\n\nExcellent.