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Daily Archives: April 19, 2010
A Beginner's Guide to Eastern European Genealogy – Part 1
Genealogical research in Eastern European countries is frequently approached with uncertainty, if not outright dread. The prospects of trying to find and understand records written in a foreign language coupled with the relative inaccessibility of many of the records in Eastern Europe is certainly reason to give many people misapprehensions of starting to research ancestors from Eastern Europe. Continue reading