Crossing the Ocean:
Sources to Ancestral Towns
Using case studies based on Lithuania Latvia, Poland, and Belarus, we explore how to connect a wide variety of records and make use of many search engines. With these tools we cross the ocean from US records to locate ancestral towns and family within them. Much as with any journey, we identify where we are going, who we are going to visit, how we will communicate and how we assure we have the right luggage.
Or in genealogy parlance, what is our ancestral town, who are the family members who resided there, how do we decipher
documents, and how do we assure the people we are searching for are our family?
This talk also addresses how to create finding tools to decipher records in Russian handwritten Cyrillic.