The paradigm shift is definitely changing for German genealogy research! Thanks to Jim Beidler for the excellent webinar today, German Internet Research: A Launching Place for Your Research. Its recording is now online to view for free for a limited time at FamilyTreeWebinars. A few comments from our viewers: Another excellent webinar. Please do have Jim back again to talk about the Palatine Germans! Another fantastic webinar with lots of new websites to research with! Been scared to death to start German research due to language difficulties, and not knowing where to search. James has taken most of the fear away. Anxious to find some time to browse around some of his website suggestions. Excellent and perfect ground for follow up webinars! Excellent information. I consider myself a beginner and I had just learned that the ancestor I am working on is from Germany. I was stalled at that point as I could not fine info on him or his parents. Excellent introduction to German genealogical research. Highly recommended!! Excellent presentation. Will need to listen to this webinar again and, of course, order the book on German Research. Excellent webinar . . . I have been waiting for a webinar just like this to research my German ancestors . . . thank you Geoff and James. Excellent webinar. I would love to have more webinars with James on Germany. Hint Hint. Thanks Geoff and Legacy for these great webinars. Fantastic! I am eager to use this info to find my Goss, Hahn and Kuntz ancestors! Thanks for a webinar that may break some of my brick walls!!! Gave me lots of ideas for furthering my German genealogy. Great presentation. Have the book now I am interested in reading it even more! Great to have some ideas of where to look beyond Ancestry, FamilySearch and the FHL! Very excited to learn about the upcoming Kirchenbuchportal. Also eager to try pasting a URL into Google Translate. Thank you Jim! Great webinar! Mr. Beidler was an interesting speaker. Thanks to his information, I now have new websites to search for my husbands German ancestors. Great webinar, very informative. Cant wait for the online records! The resources Jim shared were great! I am looking forward to breaking down my brick walls. :) Here I come Germany! Thank you. Tremendous. I cant wait. My German relatives - deceased?! - cant wait! I dont remember learning so much at one time! I have steered away from researching German ancestors. Like Jim I did the IGI and the LDS fiches in the 1980s but now I can see a light on obtaining more information. Thanks. Internet genealogy is evolving so fast that webinars like this one are a great way to keep up with available resources or new ones coming soon like Kirchenbuckportal. Jim gave a great overview and lots of research tips. It was very informative. I am just getting started on my German ancestry and am very grateful for the great data! James was VERY, VERY organized. I have several German ancestors and had written off doing any research. James has excited me to get started -- Just as soon as I have filled my Legacy Family Tree with what I have here in paper! Thanks. Great seminar. Just superb! A ray of hope for those of us floundering around in Germany. Please bring Mr. Beidler back for the 2-3 more webinars that were mentioned just addressing the questions. Thank you! Like many others - German ancestry is a HUGE and very solid brick wall - wouldnt have missed this webinar! Learned so much! Mr Beidler communicated key research sources which I was not aware of along with the nuiasences associated there with. I will be using those sources along with Family Tree . Thank you Mr. Beidler was an extremely knowledgeable, and credible speaker. The resources he shared were invaluable to anyone researching their German ancestry. Many of the tips were actually applicable to searching for any overseas ancestors. My husband who isnt into genealogy said he enjoyed it, too. One of the best I have attended at Legacy. Good detail, clear speaking, not a lot of personalizing. Outstanding! I never thought Id learn so much information in one session. The information provided today was excellent. I cant wait to dig into the resources he provided. Jim Beidler is an excellent presenter. I would love to hear more from him in the future. Thank you for offering such exceptional genealogical education opportunities. The webinar was fantastic! So full of information I just had to go buy the quick guide for Germany. This was really an amazing webinar and I really hope you invite him back several times. Ill be honest, I NEVER buy anything while watching/listening to it. Its my rule of thumb to wait 7 days and if I still want it, buy it. However I had to break that rule because I simply couldnt resist buying that book. Many, MANY thanks to Legacy for inviting him and to Mr. Beidler for an excellent 1 1/2 hours. It was too short! Very encouraging. I had always been told that gen. info,especially church records, were nearly impossible to access without going there in person. Cant wait to try some of the assets listed here. Thanks, Jim! Very interesting, makes me want to rush on over and work on my German lines. Wow -- learned so much in his presentation! The hour flew by & kept our interest. We can hardly wait to tackle our brick walls anew!
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