{"id":4045,"date":"2018-11-25T21:03:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2018-11-25T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:03:35","slug":"german-genealogy-workshop-in-madison-saturday-february-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/2018\/11\/25\/german-genealogy-workshop-in-madison-saturday-february-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMAN GENEALOGY Workshop in Madison, Saturday, February 23, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding Our German Ancestors in Europe:<\/b><\/p>\n

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a Workshop for Genealogists<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>with Antje Petty\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Saturday, February\u00a023, 2019<\/b><\/div>\n
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<\/b><\/div>\n
UW-Madison Memorial LIBRARY,\u00a0Room\u00a0126,<\/div>\n
728 State Street, Madison<\/b><\/div>\n
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Cosponsored by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies and the Wisconsin Historical Society<\/div>\n
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REGISTER ONLINE at\u00a0www.wisconsinhistory.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Registration begins on December 14 and is first-come-first-serve.\u00a0Limited to 75 registrants!<\/b><\/p>\n

Fees\u00a0<\/b>(including lunch):\u00a0<\/b>$36 for members of the Friends of MKI, the Wisconsin Historical Society, or the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society; $40 for non-members<\/p>\n

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Session I\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAll I know is they were from Germany\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Before you can do any meaningful family research in Europe, it is crucial to know where your ancestor lived at a certain time. This session will give advice on how to identify your ancestral hometown in the context of Central Europe\u2019s complex territorial history.<\/p>\n

Session II\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lives lived and documented<\/b><\/p>\n

Vital records are usually the first ones we try to find when researching our ancestors in Europe, but people\u2019s lives were documented in many more ways. Whether our ancestors owned land (or not), paid taxes, attended a school or a church, joined the military, had a business or a bank account; were members of a guild, club, or community organization; etc. \u2013 chances are, they left traces that can help us discover their stories.<\/p>\n

Session III\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Finding documents from German-speaking Europe<\/b><\/p>\n

This session is an introduction to finding historical records from German-speaking Europe online and off. It will include tips on how to do archival research as well as on how to navigate and use the ever-growing online selection of German and other European historical documents and genealogical resources.<\/p>\n

Session IV\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Working with historical German documents\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

You found a family document. You made a copy.\u00a0\u00a0But now what?\u00a0\u00a0In this session you will learn strategies to efficiently interpret historic German documents, even if you do not speak the language and cannot read the script.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/b>PRESENTER<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Antje Petty\u00a0<\/b>is the Associate Director of the Max Kade Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.\u00a0She shares the resources of the Institute with the community through lectures and workshops and has done extensive research on German-speaking immigrant families.<\/p>\n

For more information go to:\u00a0https:\/\/mki.wisc.edu\/events\/2018\/finding-our-german-ancestors-europe-workshop-geneaologists<\/a><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

or\u00a0contact Antje Petty\u00a0<\/b>(apetty@wisc.edu<\/a>\u00a0\/ 608-262-7546) or\u00a0Lori Bessler\u00a0<\/b>(Lori.Bessler@wisconsinhistory.org<\/a>\u00a0\/ 608-264-6519)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding Our German Ancestors in Europe: a Workshop for Genealogists\u00a0 with Antje Petty\u00a0 Saturday, February\u00a023, 2019 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. UW-Madison Memorial LIBRARY,\u00a0Room\u00a0126, 728 State Street, Madison Cosponsored by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies and the Wisconsin Historical Society REGISTER ONLINE at\u00a0www.wisconsinhistory.org\u00a0\u00a0Registration begins on December 14 and is first-come-first-serve.\u00a0Limited to 75 registrants! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,52,59,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-german-language","category-max-kade-institute","category-traditions-and-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xHH9-13f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}