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Zigzagging through German Church Records

James M. Beidler
Feb 11, 2015
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Why Church Records?
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Church Records - Who?
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Church Records - What?
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Baptisms
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Marriages
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Burials
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Confirmations
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Odd Ball Records
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Family Registers
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Examples of Zigzags
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

You will learn about the methodology of using the baptismal, confirmation, marriage and burial records from German church registers most effectively. By utilizing the different bits of information found in each, researchers can zigzag their way to adding centuries to a pedigree.

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James M. Beidler
James M. Beidler, former Interim Executive Director for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, is the author of four commercially published genealogy books as well as writing “
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