Ute Brandenburg is a professional genealogist in Iowa City, Iowa. Born in the US and raised and educated in Germany, she is not only equally fluent in German and English, but intimately familiar with German history and culture, as well as regional customs and dialects. Ute’s research interests include German immigration to the Midwest, research in the former Eastern Provinces of Prussia, German-Jewish research, and application of DNA in solving German research challenges. She has extensive experience reading handwritings from the 1600s to the present. At German Genealogy Headquarters, Ute collaborates with genealogist Ursula C. Krause to present German research seminars with a focus on human experience and social history.
